Manager, Software Engineering (Finance)
Nintendo of America Inc.
About Nintendo of America: From the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System™ more than 30 years ago, Nintendo's mission has been to create smiles through unique entertainment experiences. Here at Nintendo of America Inc., we deliver on this mission by partnering closely with Nintendo Co., Ltd., to bring Nintendo's iconic and cherished franchises including Mario™, Donkey Kong™, The Legend of Zelda™, Metroid™, Animal Crossing™, Pikmin™ and Splatoon™ across the Americas through our video games, hardware systems, and collaborations with partners on a range of other entertainment initiatives like feature films and theme parks.
Based in Redmond, Wash., Nintendo of America serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Americas. We are an equal opportunity employer offering a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our products, and the diverse consumers and communities we call home. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company's website at https://www.nintendo.com/ .
Team Summary: Within NOA IT's Consumer Online & Publisher Solutions department, the Publisher Solutions (3PT) team is responsible for building and maintaining tools for both consumer and business partners. This team is responsible for the Nintendo Publisher Tool (NPT), a web application responsible for B2B processes for 2nd & 3rd party games published on the Switch platform - https://publisher.nintendo.com/
Job Summary: This position acts as the front-line manager for a team of engineers and analysts that design and build some of Nintendo's most distinct and important tool sets for both our consumer and business partner audiences. This role will help ensure that the teams that build these tools are collaborative, dedicated, innovative and of high integrity. This role will collaborate extensively with other engineering teams at Nintendo of America, Nintendo of Europe, and Nintendo HQ in Japan, as well as with other engineering managers, program managers and senior level leadership across the company.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
- Plans, coordinates, directs, and designs activities of the organization, as well as providing administrative direction and support for daily operational activities of the department.
- Works closely with decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective software solutions for all aspects of the organization.
- Monitors and maintains hardware/software technology to ensure maximum access and efficient, secure, and stable environments.
- Establishes and manages appropriate standards and controls, policies, and procedures for assigned areas.
- Establishes and manages team and department goals, objectives, and metrics.
- Supports senior leadership with long-term tactical plan development.
- Oversees and manages contracts, budgets, and vendors.
- Collaborates with other teams and business constituents to provide day to day operational support and project excellence.
- Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in timely manner including root cause analysis.
- Creates disaster recovery plans, scripts, and tests.
- Ensures work is compliant with established processes, JSOX and other internal controls (i.e., SDLC, change management, production control, following standards, architecture review, incident response, PCI and PII information security, etc.).
- Manage, develop, and oversee a team of 5-10 software engineers. Conduct interviews for contractors as well as full time employees, providing feedback and guiding hiring decisions for the team.
