Team Lead R&D

Summary / Role Purpose

The Manager R&D joins the Materials Business Unit to lead software development sub-projects of Ansys applications such as Granta MI. This role is responsible for planning, resource assignments and progress tracking of all activities performed by the members of the team. The Manager R&D will be responsible for line management and personal development of team members, as well as the facilitation of the team’s work.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the on-time completion of the projects assigned to team while meeting the corporate quality standards
• Ensure that appropriate methods and procedures are followed
• Recruits, develops, and retains high performing talent
• Create a positive team culture that is aligned with the Ansys culture
• Typically will oversee and manage a single team, section, or unit
• Build robust and innovative back-end solutions for Materials data management.
• Hands-on development, leading your team by example.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• BS in Engineering, Materials Science , Computer Science or related field with 8 years’ experience, MS with 6 years’ experience, or PhD with 4 years’ experience
• Significant current, hands-on commercial experience with C# and .NET core/framework.
• Proven track record of successful product releases
• Experience of the technical team lead role: leading, managing and directing.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Excellent technical knowledge and commercial experience with C# and SQL Server.
• Experience leading projects and delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial organization
• Ability to overcome obstacles and drive projects to completion
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team
• Knowledge of secondary languages such as TypeScript and T-SQL

Experience of optimized, performant and scalable use of SQL Server in applications