Feature Team Leader #2013-4245 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

Feature Team Leader #2013-4245 | Orbitz, LLC | US-IL-Chicago

 

2013-4245

Posting Job Title 

Feature Team Leader

Job Location 

US-IL-Chicago

Category 

Technology

More information about this job:

Overview:

The Feature Team Lead Manager/Director delivers features that are meaningful to the customer and consistent with the product vision through the management of a team of software engineers. The Feature Team Lead Manager/Director is responsible for ensuring that the backlog of work for the team is well-defined with respect to scope, clarity of requirements, and acceptance criteria; that the team’s execution approach is operating effectively; that all production deliveries meet acceptance, operational, and quality criteria; and that they provide ongoing optimization and maintenance of their features post-release. In addition to the technical and execution leadership of the team, the Feature Team Lead Manager/Director has full managerial responsibility and oversight for a cross-functional group of engineering personnel, including the full employee lifecycle, performance reviews, and career management.

Responsibilities:

• Guide, mentor, motivate and develop direct reports to help shape their career paths 
• Accountable for all architectural, technical, functional, performance, and operational aspects of the team's areas of responsibility 
• Own end-to-end feature delivery, having a business owner mindset, understand the business drivers of each feature, balance the needs of the business, and needs of internal, external stakeholders and customers. 
• Communicate effectively within the team and with all stakeholders by providing high quality visibility into planned and actual deliverables.
• Ensure product quality through effective monitoring of quality trends, test automation, defect tracking and root cause analysis.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development experience 
• 2+ years of technical management experience 
• BS or MS in Computer Science preferred or equivalent experience 
• Experience with Agile software development methodology 
• Successfully demonstrated substantial cross-functional leadership in both technical and management areas 
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Demonstrated success in a team-based environment 
• Strategic in execution: setting goals that align with business, aggressively achieving those goals 
• Possesses a strong action and results orientation with the ability to work independently, be self-motivated and proactive in driving team objectives. 
• Travel Industry and ecommerce knowledge a plus

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