Sr. Manager - Video Middleware (Java) - Hybrid
Fremont, CA  / Oak Brook, IL 
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Posted 16 days ago
Job Description

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As a Senior Manager in Chamberlain's Engineering group, you will play a pivotal role in leading the multi-national team that is shaping and building the next generation of our core Video Platform. This team is instrumental in supporting the anticipated 10X growth across a spectrum of future products in both residential and commercial domains. The Video Platform is a robust, high availability system delivering video streaming, storage, and computer vision capabilities for IP cameras and other IoT devices with embedded cameras. Your leadership will guide the team to evolve the Video Platform into a planet-scale system to accommodate innovative product features.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead and inspire Chamberlain's multinational video platform middleware team in designing and evolving a highly-scalable next-generation video platform to address anticipated growth.
  • Preserve and encourage a healthy team culture of collaboration, innovation, and openness.
  • Ensure the team's goals and strategy are aligned with those of the organization and the goals of various stakeholders and that the team knows and understands the organizations goals and strategy.
  • Partner with stakeholders across various domains (user experience, infrastructure, AI/ML, etc.) to define and solve complex technical challenges related to platform scalability and feature enhancements.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and Scrum Masters to prioritize tasks, allocate resources effectively, and ensure alignment with business objectives and project timelines.
  • Report functional team strategy and roadmap to manager and director-level stakeholders, ensuring alignment with company strategy.
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to team membrers, facilitating onboarding of new hires and supporting professional growth of the team.
  • Collaborate closely with architects and engineers to devise thoughtful software designs that can handle significant growth while maintaining performance and reliability.
  • Evaluate team skills and process maturity, devising training plans and a technology roadmap to foster continuous improvement.
  • Help the team implement effective system architecture for cloud software development.
  • Ensure the team follows coding standards and best practices to foster reusable code.
  • Lead technical discussions in communities of practice, design reviews, and other technical forums.
  • Stay abreast of modern technologies and innovations relevant to building a highly-scalable video streaming platform.
  • Work with HR to hire top-tier software developers, conducting interviews, assessing candidates' technical skills and cultural fit, and making hiring decisions in collaboration with HR and senior management.
  • Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; managers should also ensure compliance across their teams.
  • Protect Chamberlain Group's reputation by keeping information confidential.
  • Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reading professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
  • Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed.

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • An advanced degree in directly applicable area of study may substitute for up to two (2) years of job related experience
  • 10+ years of job-related experience
  • 8+ years of experience leading a cloud development team.
  • Experience conducting performance reviews, providing constructive feedback, recognizing achievements, and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Experience conducting interviews and making hiring decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to define functional process improvements and drive change.
  • Established expertise in instituting best practices, principles, and standards for software development.
  • Proven track record of leading teams that build highly scalable and reliable software solution platforms.
  • Experience in creating technical documentation and implementing documentation standards.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Ability to provide clear direction to multiple development teams across different geographies.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills.
  • Capability to estimate work, support project plan creation, and report progress to functional management at a platform level.
  • Thorough understanding of software development and design principles.
  • Understanding of Agile and Waterfall development models (especially Scrum).
  • Proficient in highly-scalable architecture and cloud software development.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems principles and experience in building scalable cloud-based architectures.
  • Solid understanding of the Java technology stack, including Java SE, Java EE, JDBC, Hibernate.
  • Solid understanding of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Aptitude for self-learning, evaluating, and teaching new tools, programming languages, frameworks, libraries, and design patterns.
  • Familiarity with Eclipse, GIT, SQL, No-SQL databases, queues, messaging systems, AWS
  • Ideally experience with video streaming technologies (e.g., WebRTC, RTP, HLS, DASH, H.264, MP4).

Chamberlain Group wants all of its employees to succeed and encourages people of all backgrounds to apply. We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, and you'll be considered for this role regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, ancestry; marital, disabled or veteran status. We're committed to fostering an environment where people of all lived experiences feel welcome.

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence Recruiting@Chamberlain.com.


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Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
2 years
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