Manager, Platform Development

Job Description
Manager of Platform Development partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products. The position aligns technology to business strategy and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization. The Manager will oversee the platform engineering teams responsible for our Curriculum Experience where our full-time students in K to 12 go to school every day.
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Partners with technical product management and other key business stakeholders to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and deliver products.
Interfaces with other engineering groups and enterprise architecture; collaborate on integration projects, best practices, and the introduction of new technologies.
Commits to roadmaps with capabilities and timelines, with a proven track record for new product and technology evaluation and introduction
Aligns technology to business strategy, and proactively drives a technical direction throughout the organization
Adopts a Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and institutes a frequent release cadence.
Manages multiple team(s) consisting of Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and DevOps. Oversees both fulltime and contract resources.
Leads and mentors engineering team members
Have an innovation mindset to product development, engineering, and development processes and provide thought leadership and information dissemination in this area.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises 5 or more Full-time Equivalent (FTE) regular employees and/or contractors. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Minimum Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field AND
Three (3) years’ proven experience in software engineering leadership roles AND
Strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around the complete lifecycle of product development OR
An equivalent combination of education and experience
Certificates and Licenses: None Required
Other Required Qualifications
Ability to attract talent, inspire the organization, and develop the next generation of leaders
Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including influencing technical decisions and direction, conflict management, negotiation, and presentations
Full commitment to customer satisfaction
Identify and drive innovation in products, technologies, processes, and solutions
Has high standards, results-oriented, pro-active and a commitment to delivering high-quality software on time and in budget
Leadership skills to include coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development
Software development and overall automation including Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, build and test automation, orchestration/fulfillment, assurance, performance
Relevant experience in large-scale application architecture/design, middleware architecture, integration architecture, application deployment methods, automation, testing, compliance, auditing
Service-oriented and microservice architecture for highly available cloud-hosted applications and services in AWS
Understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices
Ability and desire to thrive in a proactive, high-pressure environment
Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills
Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns
Solid understanding of source control and using it effectively
Experience working with offshore and distributed teams
Ability to pass a required background check
Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
Ability to travel 10% of the time
Ability to clear required background check
Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
We anticipate the salary range to be $93,328.50- $150,000.00. An individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is a remote position.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Job Type
Regular
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting stridecareers@k12.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals With Disabilities
Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Work arrangement
Yes