Software Engineering Manager

Travel Tags, Inc.

Fort Worth, TX


Your Leadership.

Our Power.

Unlimited Potential.

Venture Solutions, a Taylor Company, is a dynamic, diversified company with big plans for the future ― and your career. We power our employees’ potential and strive to create opportunity and security for every member of the team. If you’re ready for something bigger ― more challenge, more variety, more pathways for professional growth ― we should talk. We’re passionate about our work, we believe there is always a better way, and we’re looking for people like you.

Ready to reach your potential? It’s time to look at Venture Solutions.

Your Opportunity: Venture Solutions (a Taylor company) is looking for a Software Engineering Manager.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Lead a professional services team of application programmers in development of applications for a high-volume print environment including hiring, developing, and managing a team of 10+ IT professionals
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with Client service, Sales & Operations for the purpose of meeting client expectations and deadlines
  • Drive innovation and change in processes and technologies to improve quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the organization
  • Estimate labor effort required to complete customer fee for service tasks
  • Plan, balance, and coordinate the resources to ensure the team sets and meets customer expectations/SLAs, project budgets, and project schedules
  • Manage support activities for the legacy applications and serve as a primary escalation point for the team, account management, and company management regarding applications support related issues
  • Develop and track metrics that address quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team
  • Build and maintain solid internal and external relationships, consulting as necessary with Sales, Client Services and Client teams regarding new and existing Client projects. Build trust by demonstrating technical competency, knowledge of the customer’s needs and the industry, a sense of urgency, and a successful track record of meeting client expectations
  • Manage and communicate job prioritization working with various stakeholders and IT team - acts as a gate keeper
  • Ensure that all prioritized projects are delivered on-time
  • Manages resource availability and forecast allocation to meet project deadlines
  • Manage all internal and external staff to maximize productivity and efficiency in carrying out IT projects
  • Working with IT Director, manage project personnel responsible for implementation of the project tasks [holds and chairs regular meetings, prioritization of work, motivate staff, manage conflicts and crises]
  • Oversee the daily activities of the IT development team
  • Assist in development of efficient workflows and processes
  • Mentor, lead, train employees in technical complexities of assigned work
  • Responsible to confer with technical contacts regarding how to resolve system issues
  • Mastery of data security and information security compliance


You Must Have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Project Management, or relevant work experience
  • 7 years IT management and/or technical project management experience. Experience should include leading projects from start to end and managing client changes daily
  • 5+ year’s software applications development, data processing, or page composition experience
  • Hands-on expertise in writing code and/or technical lead
  • Experience and or working knowledge of mortgage statements and correspondence
  • Experience and or working knowledge of manipulating and processing data supplied by mortgage service providers (Black Knight, Fiserv, etc.)
  • Experience and or working knowledge of composition tools like OpenText Exstream or Quadient Inspire
  • Experience and or working knowledge of document and content technologies like Solimar SPDE & Rubica, Compart Mill Plus, and Quadient Interactive
  • Experience and or working knowledge of prepress and variable data printing is preferred
  • Experience and or working knowledge of workflow management tools like Jira
  • Basic knowledge in Marketing/Advertising, Print Industry and USPS Mailing requirements
  • Experience required in project task prioritization, resource scheduling and delivering work in established timeframe
  • Experience with multi-tasking, multi-processing in a fast-paced IT environment
  • Experience in negotiating and communicating deadlines with internal/external stakeholders
  • Detail oriented and able to effectively manage multiple priorities in a busy production environment
  • Possesses and applies a moderately broad knowledge of business principles, practices, and procedures
  • Can read and understand complex standard requirements artifacts requirements matrices and process maps
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Knowledge of resource capacity planning & forecasting
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Analytical thinking and problem-solving capability
  • Great attention to detail and time-management skills
  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of best practices in software design and programming principles

We Would Also Prefer

  • IBM VSE CoBOL mainframe technology
  • Transitioning development from a mainframe environment to a Microsoft Windows ETL based environment
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Any ETL tool (MapForce, Talend, Pentaho etc) is a plus
  • Oracle Cloud ERP
  • Certification that supports your Technical, Leadership and Management credentials

About Taylor Corporation
One of the largest graphics communications firms in North America, Taylor’s family of companies provide a diverse set of products, services, and technologies addressing the toughest communication challenges. For nearly 50 years, Taylor has been a premier provider of powerful and innovative products, services, and expertise for individuals, businesses, and distributors large and small. Our 10,000+ employees spanning 26 states and seven countries work diligently to create the interactive, printing, and marketing solutions that have helped build some of the world’s more recognizable brands. Everything we do begins with identifying the unique priorities and needs of our customers and creating one-of-a-kind solutions. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including several health plans to choose from, dental, vision, wellness programs, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off (PTO) and 64 hours of annual holiday pay.

The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Taylor Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Taylor Corporation including all partners and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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