SADA Hiring for Manager, Application Development at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Your Mission

As a Manager, Application Development at SADA, you will manage and grow our software engineering team focused on developing or refactoring solutions for our clients on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Our team assists with net-new application development, modernization from on-premises or other clouds onto GCP, and supporting feature development for our clients’ existing applications. You will be responsible for managing a team of Application Development engineers with a diverse set of skills and talents, covering backend, frontend, and mobile development; so a broad background in across programming languages is required, as well as a focus on agile and user-centered development.

The diversity of customers that SADA works with and the variety of projects for those customers ensures a steady flow of challenging work. Be prepared to tackle real-world problems that our customers find too difficult or time-consuming to solve themselves. Engagements vary from being purely consultative to requiring heavy hands-on work, and cover a diverse array of domain areas, including new and developing technologies, such as new Google products in the Maps space. Management here at SADA also means developing people, being a leader, and designing new solutions in tandem with our sales teams.

In this role, you will:
Be comfortable working with customer executives to align business outcomes with technical vision and goals

Guide the day-to-day activities of a geographically distributed team, including hiring world class talent, reviewing work and setting goals

Assist our Solution Architects in the development of proposals and statements of work that the engineering team will execute

Provide technical and professional leadership and mentorship on a diverse range of subject matter areas, such as Application Architecture, UI/UX Design, QA/Documentation, Requirements Gathering, Gap Analysis, and Solution Research

Develop and codify best practices for the team that can be replicated across multiple customer engagements. This includes how we operate, but also what we deliver, including reusable templates, repeatable solutions, and process improvements

Participate in key technical and design discussions with technical leads as a hands-on manager

Pathway to Success

#BeOneStepAhead: At SADA we are in the business of change. We are focused on leading-edge technology that is ever-evolving. We embrace change enthusiastically and encourage agility. This means that not only do our employees know that change is inevitable, but they embrace this change to continuously expand their skills, preparing for future customer needs.

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a growing Application Development practice area with vision and passion. You will be measured by your team’s performance defining and executing customer engagements, how well your team achieves internal organizational goals, how well you collaborate with and support your team and peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the management growth track.

Expectations

Required Travel – Customer Facing – You will interact with customers on a regular basis. Common touchpoints occur during discovery and scoping of opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement, at project close, and other opportunities that drive value for the customer and in turn, for SADA. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Onboarding/Training – The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date.

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:
Google Professional Cloud Architect Certified or able to complete within the first 90 days of employment

Required Qualifications:
Experience leading, managing and hiring a team of talented engineers across multiple domains

Experience with Agile, Kanban, or similar project management methodologies

Expertise in the following domain areas:
Application modernization: detailed understanding of application architectures, web services, micro-services, and integrating applications with SaaS/PaaS vendors

Application development: requirements gathering and analysis, research into potential solutions, developing architectures for implementing

UI/UX design: customer-centric focus, an understanding of the design process and deliverables, capable of providing direction to design/architecture teams

Expertise in at least two of the following domains:
Customer facing communications

Enterprise or Solutions Architecture

Pre-sales engineering and scoping

Product development

Experience in technical consulting or other similar customer facing role

Exposure to full stack development, from setting up application and database server infrastructure to developing and implementing application code

Ability to architect, scope, and prioritize work based on feedback from the customer or internal teams

Useful Qualifications:
Experience using Google Cloud Platform, in particular serverless (Cloud Functions), containers (Cloud Run, Kubernetes), and platforms (App Engine)

Expertise in development with one or more of the following languages: Go, Python, Node.js, .NET/C#

Familiarity with the ReactJS/Redux and Angular frameworks

Experience in writing automated tests, including unit, integration, and acceptance tests

Exposure to the Google Maps API, PostGIS, GDAL, or other Geospatial display and analytics APIs/frameworks

Experience in a large scale, high-volume enterprise environments, including tuning applications for non-functional requirements, such as: usability, maintainability, scalability, availability, security, and portability

Experience developing internal consulting SOPs and best practices

About SADA

Values: We built our core values on themes that internally compel us to deliver our best to our partners, our customers and to each other. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to SADA’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Make Them Rave

Be Data Driven

Think One Step Ahead

Drive Purposeful Impact

Do The Right Thing

Work with the best: SADA has been the largest partner in North America for Google Cloud portfolio of products since 2016 and has been named the 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Google Cloud Global Reseller Partner of the Year. SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work year after year by the Business Intelligence Group, Inc. Magazine, as well as LA Business Journal!

Benefits: Unlimited PTO, Paid Parental Leave, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, rich medical, dental, vision plans, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401K/RRSP with match, as well as Google Certified training programs.

Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for 15 years in a row garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core: 3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.