Req ID#: 8746BR
Title: Manager, Platform Development
Department: Information Technology
Company Name: Hostopia
Position Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Remote Work Location: No
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Shift Type: Traditional
Company Info:
Hostopia, a Deluxe Corporation family company, is a leading provider of web services that enable small and medium businesses (SMB) to establish a web presence, generate leads, and increase their sales online.
Job Description
Hostopia, a Deluxe Company, is a leading provider of web services that enable small- and medium-sized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. The company's customers are communication services providers, including telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting service providers. Hostopia's customers purchase their web services on a wholesale basis and resell these services under their own brands to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company provides customers with the technology, infrastructure, and support services to enable them to offer web services, while saving them research & development as well as capital and operating costs typically associated with the design, development, and delivery of web services. For more information, visit www.hostopia.com>.
The Manager, Platform Development, is responsible for leading and managing the portfolio of product, applications, and professional services development teams delivering these cloud products.
Accountabilities:
- Lead and direct activities to help meet the business success criteria within assigned portfolio of products including architecture design, software development, deployment services, technical project management activities, technical documentation, and software support.
- Perform the role of lead technical representative in cross-functional teams through meetings and decision-making process.
- Ensure that current and future Strategic Initiative goals - across Hostopia / Deluxe are considered during all aspects of initial project phases to maximize solution elements of a scalable system
- Manage and direct deliverables throughout the product and professional services project lifecycles, ensuring delivery of quality products in line with required schedules - meeting defined product solution success criteria
- Responsible for leading co-ordination of resources required to successfully execute on products and projects, both within the Hostopia/Deluxe teams as well as associated external vendors
- Manage staffing, resource and capacity planning, provide mentoring and coaching for technical staff to ensure both individual and project success
- Ensure that teams have access to information and resources required to succeed in their individual project components
- Act as a key escalation point for concerns and activities related to technical aspects, while facilitating communication between technology teams and other assigned project groups
- Conduct relationship management exercises with both internal and external groups to ensure support and enthusiasm for assigned products. Represent technological objectives in contract negotiations related to product and associated external vendors within assigned Strategic Initiatives
Required:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science
- 5+ years relevant experience managing multiple resources in execution of product development include onshore and offshore resources
- Ability to design technical architectures to support the accomplishment of set business goals
- Must be experienced with Agile SDLC, TDD, and continuous integration methodologies. Kanban and Waterfall an added benefit.
- Experience and understanding of the following tools, technologies and programming languages:
Technologies: LAMP, JS, AngularJS, Boostrap, Ember, MVC Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, REST/SOAP APIs, TDD, iOS/Android platform development.
Tools: JIRA, Jenkins, SVN, GIT
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be capable of operating at a strategic level
- Must be experienced with successful contract negotiations on enterprise agreements
- Must have displayed past success operating and managing SaaS development
- Must be highly motivated to succeed
- Must be accustomed to succeeding in high pressure, dynamic environments
- Ability to quickly assess and direct multiple separate technology environments
- Must display exceptional leadership and morale building skills
- Must excel at helping to coordinating multiple project teams
- Demonstrated competency to effectively multitask and prioritize
- Must be comfortable communicating to large groups
- Experience validating and adjusting development efforts based on external testing and usability results
- Proven track record of combining multiple separate systems and technologies to form a streamlined business solution
- Strong Knowledge of how the internet services work
- Knowledge of Human Resource Management and General Management techniques and processes
- Good understanding of different programming languages and platforms and their appropriate use to solve specific business problems
- Understanding of web based GUI/UX design principles and terminology
- Understanding of back-end billing and provisioning systems
- Knowledge of common system integration techniques and technology
- Awareness of latest technology market trends and innovations
Preferred:
- Experience with big data and BI tools
Social Connections: Please visit our Facebook site to ask questions, get updates, and to better understand our culture. http://www.facebook.com/deluxecareers. Click here to get a glimpse into Deluxe. http://bit.ly/DeluxeCorpCultureVideo2013
Pre-Employment Screening: Background check required.
Title: Manager, Platform Development
Department: Information Technology
Company Name: Hostopia
Position Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Remote Work Location: No
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Shift Type: Traditional
Company Info:
Hostopia, a Deluxe Corporation family company, is a leading provider of web services that enable small and medium businesses (SMB) to establish a web presence, generate leads, and increase their sales online.
Job Description
Hostopia, a Deluxe Company, is a leading provider of web services that enable small- and medium-sized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. The company's customers are communication services providers, including telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting service providers. Hostopia's customers purchase their web services on a wholesale basis and resell these services under their own brands to small- and medium-sized businesses. The company provides customers with the technology, infrastructure, and support services to enable them to offer web services, while saving them research & development as well as capital and operating costs typically associated with the design, development, and delivery of web services. For more information, visit www.hostopia.com>.
The Manager, Platform Development, is responsible for leading and managing the portfolio of product, applications, and professional services development teams delivering these cloud products.
Accountabilities:
- Lead and direct activities to help meet the business success criteria within assigned portfolio of products including architecture design, software development, deployment services, technical project management activities, technical documentation, and software support.
- Perform the role of lead technical representative in cross-functional teams through meetings and decision-making process.
- Ensure that current and future Strategic Initiative goals - across Hostopia / Deluxe are considered during all aspects of initial project phases to maximize solution elements of a scalable system
- Manage and direct deliverables throughout the product and professional services project lifecycles, ensuring delivery of quality products in line with required schedules - meeting defined product solution success criteria
- Responsible for leading co-ordination of resources required to successfully execute on products and projects, both within the Hostopia/Deluxe teams as well as associated external vendors
- Manage staffing, resource and capacity planning, provide mentoring and coaching for technical staff to ensure both individual and project success
- Ensure that teams have access to information and resources required to succeed in their individual project components
- Act as a key escalation point for concerns and activities related to technical aspects, while facilitating communication between technology teams and other assigned project groups
- Conduct relationship management exercises with both internal and external groups to ensure support and enthusiasm for assigned products. Represent technological objectives in contract negotiations related to product and associated external vendors within assigned Strategic Initiatives
Required:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science
- 5+ years relevant experience managing multiple resources in execution of product development include onshore and offshore resources
- Ability to design technical architectures to support the accomplishment of set business goals
- Must be experienced with Agile SDLC, TDD, and continuous integration methodologies. Kanban and Waterfall an added benefit.
- Experience and understanding of the following tools, technologies and programming languages:
Technologies: LAMP, JS, AngularJS, Boostrap, Ember, MVC Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, REST/SOAP APIs, TDD, iOS/Android platform development.
Tools: JIRA, Jenkins, SVN, GIT
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be capable of operating at a strategic level
- Must be experienced with successful contract negotiations on enterprise agreements
- Must have displayed past success operating and managing SaaS development
- Must be highly motivated to succeed
- Must be accustomed to succeeding in high pressure, dynamic environments
- Ability to quickly assess and direct multiple separate technology environments
- Must display exceptional leadership and morale building skills
- Must excel at helping to coordinating multiple project teams
- Demonstrated competency to effectively multitask and prioritize
- Must be comfortable communicating to large groups
- Experience validating and adjusting development efforts based on external testing and usability results
- Proven track record of combining multiple separate systems and technologies to form a streamlined business solution
- Strong Knowledge of how the internet services work
- Knowledge of Human Resource Management and General Management techniques and processes
- Good understanding of different programming languages and platforms and their appropriate use to solve specific business problems
- Understanding of web based GUI/UX design principles and terminology
- Understanding of back-end billing and provisioning systems
- Knowledge of common system integration techniques and technology
- Awareness of latest technology market trends and innovations
Preferred:
- Experience with big data and BI tools
Social Connections: Please visit our Facebook site to ask questions, get updates, and to better understand our culture. http://www.facebook.com/deluxecareers. Click here to get a glimpse into Deluxe. http://bit.ly/DeluxeCorpCultureVideo2013
Pre-Employment Screening: Background check required.