Software Development / Engineering Manager

Career Area: Information Technology

Occupation Group: Software Development

Salary

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A typical Software Development / Engineering Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $113,870

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $118,597

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Leads teams of software developers who design or improve computer software. Manages and oversees the software development process and directs the work of software engineers. May be primary contact with customers or users; may manage software development project budgets and hire or train staff.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Software Development / Engineering Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Mentoring: Employee training system under which a senior or more experienced individual (the mentor) is assigned to act as an advisor, counselor, or guide to a junior or trainee.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Software Engineering: Working experience with the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method.
• Software Development: Software development is the process of computer programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks resulting in a software product.
• Java: Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by Sun Microsystems, which was later acquired by the Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform computing environment.
• Engineering Management: Experience organizing, administering, and planning the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.
• JavaScript: JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, dynamic, weakly typed, object-based, multi-paradigm, and interpreted client-side programming language.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Software Development / Engineering Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Unit Testing: Working experience of Unit Testing, which is a software development process in which the smallest testable parts of an application, called units, are individually and independently scrutinized for proper operation. Unit testing can be done manually but is often automated.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Working experience with one or many of Amazon's cloud computing platforms. These platforms allows subscribers to have at their disposal a full-fledged virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet.
• Atlassian JIRA: Jira ( JEE-rah) (stylized JIRA) is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian.
• Docker Software: Working experience of Docker Software. Docker is a computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization.
• Scala: Working experience of Scala, which is a general-purpose programming language providing support for functional programming and a strong static type system. Designed to be concise, many of Scala's design decisions aimed to address criticisms of Java. Scala source code is intended to be compiled to Java bytecode, so that the resulting executable code runs on a Java virtual machine. Scala provides language interoperability with Java, so that libraries written in both languages may be referenced directly in Scala or Java code.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Software Engineering Manager
• Software Development Manager
• Manager, Software Engineering
• Manager Software Engineering
• Software Engineering

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