Development Manager

**We help the world run better**

**Position: Development Manager - CIM Solution Incubation**
**Area**:Customer Innovation & Maintenance - SI Intelligent Agriculture
**Work Place**: São Leopoldo, RS

**PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES**

**CIM Solution Incubation** is a new unit at Customer Innovation & Maintenance (CIM) with an innovative, dynamic and collaborative development environment, developing **strategic frontrunner solutions** in conjunction with **customers** & **product units**.

At **Intelligent Agriculture Team**, we are building a new solution that combines **cloud native** and **data-driven decision **to enable agribusinesses to sustainably increase farming efficiency by digitizing their farming processes and services from plan-to-harvest. We are looking for developers to join the **#1 Company to work for in Brazil**
- SAP was nominated the #1 Best Place to Work according to Glassdoor 2020 ranking, highlighting the following keywords: compensation and benefits, flexibility, office infrastructure and learning & development opportunities.

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We are looking for a highly motivated Engineering Lead to run a talented team of Cloud Experts. Someone who can challenge the status quo and likes to stay curious. Someone who enjoys working on meaningful projects and is energized by lifelong learning. Who values working with diverse teams in an inclusive and empathic way.

In our team, we believe people are the essential part of what we do; we believe they can change, and they will evolve. Our environment is safe to let people be themselves and find their strengths to contribute to the overall team and customers we attend.

**EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS**

Lead teams based on three main pillars: people, business and strategy.

**People**
- Guide people’s career, offering support to professional development of team members.
- Act as a coach/mentor and provide direct individual feedback focused on recognition of achievement and opportunities for growth.
- Create a safe and inclusive environment, in which team members feel comfortable openly sharing their thoughts.
- Set clear goals with team members, inspire and support them towards accomplishing the goals, and evaluate goal achievement in a fair and understandable way.
- Be a role model in people related topics, which includes diversity and inclusion, new work models and people empowerment, among others.
**Business**
- Work within a global team on international product development projects.
- Responsible for your team’s end to end delivery of features from the solution definition phase to deployment to customers.
- Work close to Technical Product Management and Program Management to align product strategy and prioritize development work in line with business needs.
- Compliance with global security and technical mandates and standards.
- Delivery against commitments of technical and functional product roadmap items.
- Monitor execution of plan and pro-actively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Iteratively refining processes based on feedback from team.
**Strategy**
- Build high performing teams by attracting, hiring and retaining top talent.
- Define strategies around third party’s engagement.
- Build and maintain strong and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Actively participate in leadership team alignments to improve overall team processes, support peer managers, and transparently cascade relevant information to your team.
**LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES**
- Be exposed to the latest technologies and work with world-class developers who will take your professional skills to the next level.
- Learn how continuous integration and DevOps works in a global development environment.
- Be part of a globally distributed group that has an enormous impact in the Enterprise Software industry on a global scale.
- Work in an environment that fosters feedback, autonomy and decentralized decision-making creating a culture of innovation, diversity and empathy.
**EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES**
- Bachelor's/Master’s Degree or equivalent in a technology related field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required.
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end solutions from design through delivery.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with technical product managers, architects, and technical teams across different product areas and locations.
- Ability to lead and inspire teams to achieve excellent results.
- Leadership skills, along with innovation and agile mindset.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
- Conceptual and structured work style with a strong prioritization of skills and attention to detail, outstanding facilitation and organization skills.
- Fluent in English (Spanish is a plus).
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
- Experience managing engineering teams.
- Experience in leading teams with various cultural and professional backgrounds
- Previous experience with agile devel