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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: VP / Dir / Mgr engineering
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 03/13/2005
We have an immediate need at Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale, FL, for a
Director of Software Development.
Position Summary:
The Citrix Products Team is searching for a Director of Software Development at
the Fort Lauderdale site to build the world's best software products. Drive,
commitment, and passion with a foundation of technical skills and business
savvy that inspire others will be key attributes. This role requires a proven
leader with the technical skills and experience who can lead a development team
to drive the adoption of a world-class environment for developing products. As
part of the senior leadership team, this person would play a proactive role in
tuning company strategy, communication internally and externally and engaging
the team to build and deliver the products.
Responsibilities include:
• Lead and motivate a staff of Development Managers and potentially one or
more Architects through coaching, mentoring, and performance management
practices. Set clear, achievable goals and put the necessary metrics and
milestones in place to monitor and ensure progress.
• Set the necessary mechanisms in place to evaluate developer talent,
identify and reward key contributors, and to identify and deal with
under-performers. Drive training programs and curriculum for developers.
• Assure the skill levels within the group evolve to match the trends in
the technology marketplace versus the products we need to build, deliver and
support. Develop recruiting competencies to ensure that we can hire top notch
talented people as quickly as possible in all areas.
• Drive the engineering excellence efforts, consistent process and best
practices across all the development teams at Citrix
• Enforce existing or create new processes and procedures necessary to
build world-class software products.
• Ownership of the build environment for all Citrix Access Suite products,
including the source code and insures that only the highest quality work is
submitted to the code base while a documented history of change management is
maintained.
• Understand the technology, market trends and Customer needs and match
against our product opportunities. Engage in high impact discussions with the
team in order to communicate and inspire the teams’ creative ideas
stressing the importance of the development of intellectual property.
• Support upper management and communicate company policies and procedures
explaining them in detail.
• Communicate new ideas and project status up and down through the
organization.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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• At least 10 years industry-related experience and demonstrated
development management skills with experience shipping software products in an
enterprise environment.
• Leadership experience and the ability to motivate teams to realize the
vision of the organization while making tough decisions on priorities with
customer needs and business judgment appropriately applied.
• Excellent verbal and written skills are required to interact internally
and externally.
• A proven record of delivering localizable shrink-wrapped products
worldwide.
• Knowledgeable of the following MS Windows technologies: Win32, GDI,
device drivers, services, kernel and windows programming techniques.
• The ideal technical background will consist of software development
experience managing large, cross-domain teams shipping complex products,
including client and server side technology and developer tools experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent from an
accredited university. A Master's in Computer Science or Business is a plus.
Relocation assistance is available for this position.
CONTACT
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Please send your resume as a Word Document to ken.taylor@citrix.com.
Kenneth Taylor
Senior Recruiting Consultant
Citrix Systems, Inc.
ken.taylor@citrix.com
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