RD Manager

Position Description:

Vocera Now a Part of Stryker is seeking a dedicated Manager R&D with a strong background in software engineering within the microservices and cloud domain coupled with excellent people management skills. In this role you will mentor and lead a team driving innovation and delivering highquality enterpriseclass products. You will oversee software development and testing teams ensuring the scalability longevity and reliability of product releases.

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Experience with managing the development testing and deployment of Micro Services and cloud applications and solutions
• Drives functional excellence initiatives delivers highquality R&D functional deliverables and ensures technical excellence for product or technology development. Drives technical projects of major magnitude and scope
• Provides significant guidance and approval regarding technical strategies and approaches.
• Lead the Agile development process including planning code reviews code hygiene and alignment with important product releases
• Collaborate with the NA teams Technical Support Escalations team and DevOps to anticipate and mitigate project issues as well as troubleshoot issues encountered by customers
• Provides guidance and training to staff assists subordinates in attaining career goals motivates individuals to achieve results and recruits and maintains a highquality staff.
• Coordinates sessions with project managers/core team leaders to look for opportunities for staff to learn about new initiatives or volunteer on new projects.
• Determines project staff assignments and schedules work to meet completion dates and R&D deliverables. Establishes crossfunctional team relationships.

What you will need:

Competencies:

• Track record of building and delivering solutions based on a solid understanding of customer needs.
• Resultsdriven handson approach to the full product life cycle from architecture development to product implementation.
• A passion for the endtoend development of quality software products.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging communications and documentation skills.
• Resourceful and able to solve complex problems through adapting technology and a deep understanding of product architecture.
• Proficient in designing and developing microservices architecture with expertise in scalable and resilient systems.
• Proficient in designing and developing microservices architecture with expertise in containerization orchestration and cloudnative technologies.
• Additionally handson experience in optimizing microservices for performance scalability and security would be considered a significant asset further enhancing the candidates suitability for the role.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Requirements:
Masters or bachelors in computer science or related field.

12 years applicable experience with 4 years direct people management experience preferred.

Good level of understanding of experience in and ability to mentor in ones own technical/functional disciplines.

Technical Skills:

• Good level of understanding of experience in and ability to mentor in ones own technical/functional disciplines.
• Proficient in building robust backend applications using Spring Boot.
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of database technologies including SQL (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB Cassandra).
• Handson expertise with Kafka Confluent for event streaming and message brokering.
• Indepth knowledge of microservice architecture including designing developing and deploying scalable services.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure and their associated services.
• Basic understanding of authentication protocols such as SAML OIDC and related security standards.
• Good communication skills and ability to work in Agile development environments.
• Leadership Experience:
• Talented performance coach who is skilled at providing actionable feedback to team members setting clear performance objectives and managing team member performance.
• General knowledge of the healthcare market and competitors.
• Experience executing a talent and performance management strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate plans and technical information to team members within a business unit.
• Proven ability to deliver programs or other business goals on time on quality and within budget.