Systems & Software Engineering Senior Manager

The Sr Manager - Systems and Software engineering is a key leadership role within the PowerDrive Systems (PDS) business unit. The role leads a large team of engineering managers, supervisors and technical engineers, driving product developments in vehicle electrification. The role requires strong people and technical leadership in embedded systems and software engineering, with a process driven and quality culture, focused on excellence.

The successful candidate will join a respectful, collaborative, and talented team, and will work in a professional high-tech environment with an opportunity to change and shape the future of mobility and transportation.

Tasks

• Regional responsibility for the embedded systems and software groups.
• Develop and build new location for PDS Engineering at Krakow / Poland.
• Global work and resource coordination with other regional development center leaders.
• Manage a large team of managers and supervisors by establishing and maintaining SMART objectives and providing feedback against those commitments.
• Define and monitor team metrics.
• Ensure team resources, skills and knowledge are available to meet project needs.
• Review and resolve priority task conflicts within the team.
• Monitor and drive your team's career growth needs.
• Provide a line of escalation for competency and resource team issues.
• Facilitate clear and open communication within the team.
• Drive knowledge of, and adherence to, the company s processes and procedures.
• Drive best practices and continuous improvement in process and tools.
• Be a technical leader in the competency development fields.
• Define, develop, and maintain technical guidance documentation for development roles within the group.
• Drive a platform-based competency approach for maximum reusability.
• Manages the local cost center budget for the defined competencies.
• Responsible for hiring, retention and HR topics for the team.

Requirements

• Engineering Bachelor's Degree in electrical or software engineering (or equivalent)
• 10+ years of experience of engineering roles within embedded systems development.
• 5+ years of experience of increasing responsibilities, within leadership roles.
• Proven strategic leader with ability to lead and develop teams with the ability to inspire and motivate others, develop direct reports skills and encourage growth.
• Strong knowledge of systemssoftware engineering principles and guidelines (eg INCOSE).
• Experience with automotive embedded software development based on AUTOSAR architecture-MCAL, BSW, configuration tools from Vector/Mentor/EB Tresos etc. and methodology.
• Experience and knowledge of Model Based Development (MBD) and auto-code generation methodologies using Matlab tool-boxes (Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow/eCoder etc)
• Experience task management tools eg. Atlassian JIRA, IBM Rational RTC etc.
• Experience of working within an ASPICE based process environment (or similar)
• Knowledge of V cycle development, requirements, architecture and controls engineering principles.Experience delivering a project with functional safety (ISO26262) requirements.
• Propulsion or electric motor system experience.
• Knowledge of cyber security concepts and the new ISO 21434 standard
• Embedded systems testing and test methodology