Software Engineering Manager

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Here at CCH Tagetik we are looking for a Product Software Engineering Manager with strong leadership ability, a pragmatic outlook and experience growing teams and people to join our Development and operations teams. As a Manager, you will use both your leadership and technical expertise to guide and enable diverse teams of highly engaged engineers. You’ll give coaching, mentorship and direction for 5/6 teams. You’ll have the skills, experience, wisdom, patience and determination to work with the team to deliver high quality software to meet our customers' needs and continually improve the capacity and capabilities of the team.

What You’ll Be Doing:

1. Translate business needs into capability build up and hiring plans in own teams, play a key role in helping us continue to attract, develop and retain great engineering talent.
2. Provide regular feedback to people you lead in a caring and direct way.
3. Help our people set goals that will grow their careers.
4. Foster a diverse and inclusive working environment where everyone can thrive.
5. Identify blockers, problems or red flags and ensure the teams are aware of these and take timely action to deal with them.
6. Set performance goals according to employee expectations and company needs and check the progress towards these goals with periodical check-ins, collecting feedback, and giving support and direction.
7. Cascade and clarify organizational vision, strategy, goals, and procedures to team members.
8. Collaborate with the recruiting process (candidate screening and interviews) and help define the team composition and the overall organizational design.

Qualifications and Skills:

1. At least a couple of years experience leading people.
2. Solid understanding of application & system development and Agile practices.
3. Refined prioritization skills, to focus your time and energy where it’ll have the most impact.
4. Strong understanding of how to drive a thriving Engineering culture.
5. Experience in coaching and developing teams career wise.
6. Data driven approach to decision making.
7. Able to drive sustainable growth of the Engineering organization, finding, retaining and developing top talents.
8. Able to implement evaluation criteria and career planning for engineers which address a healthy mix of technical & leadership skills.
9. Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
10. Fluent in Italian and English.

What do we offer you at CCH Tagetik part of Wolters Kluwer?

1. Flexible working hours where you can start between 8:00 and 10:00 and flexible working policy (3 days a week from home, 2 days a week in the office).
2. Modern office in an old coffee factory where you can work together in teams but also connect with your colleagues. Just outside the walls of Lucca and close to the train station.
3. English classes and full access to E-learning platforms such as Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning and Udemy.
4. Possibility of certification paths.
5. Development plans to help you steer your career path. Annual performance and salary reviews.
6. Community and team building events like the global code games, network events and Wolters Kluwer value days.