Selecting the Right Software Development Managers
Hiring is one of the toughest challenges any company can face, either large enterprises or new startups. There is a great deal of know-how kind of experience when hiring a Software Development Manager, not all companies have the right processes that can warrant best hires.
At SupportFinity, we streamlined our processes and in-house standards to make sure of having one of the top world-class hiring processes. The magic mix of skills ingredients is what separates a great hire from a not-so-good one. We came to this conclusion through consulting top technical and HR experts in addition to our years of work and exposure with most sophisticated projects across almost all tech verticals and areas of expertise. So you get one of the best recruitment processes to hire a Software Development Manager.
As we have created and crafted a unique method of teams’ customization, we have also perfected our signature model of matching the right skills for our customers to hire either one Software Development Manager or a team of Software Development Managers. We have a long lasting belief in the power of data analytics in creating unmatchable results, thus, we apply our analytical models on our hiring process same as we do in our business model.
Software Development Manager Job Description Template
Software Development Manager
AKA: Development Director
The Software Development Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the people, resources and processes required to deliver new software or upgrade existing products. In smaller companies, software manager may take a hands-on role in software development.
- Optimizes functional and organizational priorities in development plans.
- Meets division and/or product family release dates and follow release processes.
- The Software Development Manager improves product quality by improving processes.
- The Software Development Manager assists clients to be successful in the use of Oracle product.
- The Software Development Manager Interacts with external clients/suppliers without supervision.
- Analyzes and provides tactical solutions to complex problems.
- Develops and maintains detailed project schedules.
- Drives improvements to defined processes and standards.
- Demonstrate technical understanding of direct area of responsibility.
- Possess significant domain expertise in the business area of development
- Possess experience in implementing projects using good project management concepts.
- Articulate clearly solutions to business problems within one or more domain areas
- Good understanding of application development in a multi-tier environment.
- Demonstrated experience inspiring, mentoring and managing multi-disciplinary Agile teams.
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven experience in ensuring teams uphold the highest standards for delivering high quality software. .
We know that communication starts from speaking common languages, thus we put this aspect as a first factor in our selection process, we do not proceed with hiring for Software Development Manager before making sure that the candidate passes the language ability tests first.
The ability of self-explanation ( writing – speaking )
The ability of describing problems structurally and technically ( writing & speaking)
The ability of explaining ideas, situations and problems ( reading, writing & speaking)
This part mainly measures the logical, numerical and analytical aptitude of each candidate, top ones are the only ones we select for next stages.
We have a set of interview tests that measure the agreeability levels of each candidate for
Software Development Manager, we do so as we believe that likability of any person starts from the ability
to achieve high levels of agreeability without compromising critical thinking.
We also measure the creativity side of the Software Development Manager you look for, where we see when and how each
candidate can apply out-of-the-box and innovative ways of fixing problems or creating new solutions.
Some people can do well when working on their own, some others cannot!
Knowing this matters a lot when hiring a Software Development Manager with regard to the team size needed.
Remote work needs a special level of team work skills, so we make sure that your Software Development Manager can adapt and work well with your team
and be quickly part of it if needed.
We care about hiring someone who can deliver, create and perform the way you expect
with passion and enthusiasm.
We assess our people’s technical abilities on the merits of achievements more
than anything else.
Hiring the right Software Development Manager is an uneasy decision, we consider
measing the actual technical skills of each candidate.
Having a great resume
is just the start for us, we select candidates know what they say
they know!
We conduct advanced technical tests to make sure we cover the needed knowledge your
Software Development Manager needs to have to excel for your business.
We weigh academic qualifications as well, we also request our full time employees to submit their education evidence as a major hiring rule to follow. We believe having the right academic qualifications can make a great difference, especially in advanced science based areas like electronic design, engineering planning...etc.
One important metric for us is the ability of your Software Development Manager to learn new skills, so we make sure that we select people who are only dynamic and willing to learn new ones.
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