Associate Director Software Development

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

You will lead, guide, and task a software development team to collaboratively build analytics frameworks and corporate security applications in support of a variety of projects. Projects may include features like: operational support systems, high volume data processing, distributed processing, and virtualized or containerized architectures. The work will involve coordination with architects, data engineers and data scientists, project managers, and product owners to specify the required capabilities. You will work closely with multiple teams to assist in verifying design approaches, validating priorities, and determining the types of components and software that need to be created. You will work closely with project managers to plan the tasks and sub-tasks, assign resources, resolve dependencies, and adjust to project changes as they occur.

You will lead and mentor developers at various experience and skill levels, from new college graduates to distinguished engineers having decades of experience. You will perform employee evaluations, career development, and coaching. This includes activities such as: assessing performance, coaching and development, holding employees accountable, taking appropriate corrective actions, training, and providing ongoing direction and feedback.

You’ll be ensuring that software is developed following established department processes, in order to ensure quality, accuracy, and a positive customer experience. Other management and collaboration tasks will be required, including

• Collaborating with other teams, e.g. integration and quality assurance, to guarantee successful outcomes.

• Partnering with management and peers to understand business challenges.

• Crafting creative approaches to improve productivity and unlock opportunities for cost and time savings.

• With your peers, collaboratively defining and driving improved development techniques and processes.

• Collaborating with other disciplines, such as network engineering and data science, to achieve a common goal.

• Helping to build business cases and translating requirements into practical business implementations.

Where you'll be working...

In this worksite-based role , you'll work onsite at a defined location, Ashburn, VA.

What we’re looking for...

You stay current on the latest standard methodologies in software development and systems architecture. You can visualize the big picture strategy, but can also break it down into the components to get the job done. You have credibility with people because you have been a developer yourself, and you also know how to communicate complex issues to management or to non-technical stakeholders. Also, you’re an effective and inspiring leader who brings out the best in others.

What you will need to have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and six or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Master’s degree or other advanced training.

• Experience in corporate security and/or previous experience managing and leading development teams to deliver successful results.

• Familiar with TDD, OOAD, Scrum and other agile techniques.

• Experience with SQL and software programming packages like C++, Python, Java.

• Work experience in the telecommunication domain.

• Demonstrated communication and influence skills.

• Experience with agile development concepts, software design and development, and a variety of programming languages and tools.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to present progress and results for presentation to both customer and VZ audiences.

• Excellent presentation skills, particularly the ability to effectively present to executives on highly technical subjects, tying results to business concepts.

• Must be able to provide clear and complete technical documentation of designs and code to stakeholders and partner teams.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.