Solution Engineering Director

HARMANs engineers and designers are creative purposeful and agile. As part of this team youll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day you will push the boundaries of creative design and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together youll discover that at HARMAN you can grow make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive
Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

• Creating the next software platforms to drive the automotive industry
• Combine ingenuity in-depth research and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
• Advance in-vehicle infotainment safety efficiency and enjoyment
  

About the Role
In this role you will be responsible for driving the continued transformation of HARMAN Automotive into a leading technology player in the automotive software industry.
As a senior leader of a global software delivery organization you will hold endtoend ownership for development activities across onboard and offboard software teams worldwide ensuring consistent execution quality and alignment to customer commitments. You will lead the enhancement and evolution of HARMANs software products based on customer needs while maintaining deep familiarity with the full HARMAN software portfolio.
You will act as a key stakeholder in shaping the vision of a highly robust and scalable platform that serves as the foundation for all products while enabling controlled and efficient customization to meet specific customer requirements. Your role requires strong technical and strategic leadership coupled with the ability to orchestrate collaboration across globally distributed teams partners and functions. You will be accountable for delivering complex endtoend solutions within committed timelines managing development tradeoffs across regions and domains and continuously raising the bar for quality scalability and operational this role you will report to the Software Products Customer Delivery Lead.

Your Team
Leads software organization with Development QA DevOps and Quality expertise while closely interacting with other business/core units and our customers.

What You Will Do

• Leadership & Team Management: Manage multiple development teams across regions responsible for daytoday leadership performance and skill development.
• Promote strong ownership culture and continuous process improvement within engineering teams.
• Plan and control budget including team capacity and cloud consumption.
• Delivery: Full ownership on customer driven E2E development of on-board and off-board releases in high quality and demanding standards. Lead the planning prioritization execution and delivery for multiple products and customers in time and quality. Overview the architecture and design process to insure minimal variation between customers and low maintenance cost. Estimation and commitment for development efforts including testing.
• Decision Making: Make decisions guided by organizational objectives and resource availability.
• Strategic Contribution: Foster a collaborative and innovative culture with different business units and peers and contribute to strategic thinking and shaping our future products.
• Problem Solving: Identify and solve complex operational and organizational problems. Act as tier 4 for our support org in production urgent matters perform RCAs and suggest workarounds.
• Strategic Guidance: Be guided by organization strategy and business plans impacting department results by supporting projects products services and/or technologies.
• Others: Encourage leaders to act interaction with external partners/customers.

What You Need to be Successful

• Bachelors degree in SW engineering computer science or related field.
• 10 years of industry-related experience as Software development lead for global teams.
• 7 years of proven hands-on experience in a software development role.
• Extensive knowledge of the principles procedures and best practices in the industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills attention to detail.
• Strong project management skills with a track record of successful project delivery.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and geographies.
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and lead a high-performing teams.
• Knowledge and experience in CI/CD process
  

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience in AI driven development.
• Hands on experience in JAVA C GO and Rust.
• Experience in Managing teams in Japan and in China.
• Experience in SW development for the automotive industry with proven experience in ASPICE.
• Experience on development in a Cloud environment.
  

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel internationally.
• Successfully complete a background investigation.
  

What We Offer

• We offer an authentic diverse equal and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
• You will work on products and services that touch peoples lives and will change the industrial standards being a part of the transformations in our industry.
• Our work environments are fast paced challenging empowering collaborative flexible and exciting.
• We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
• Competitive wellness benefits.
  

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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.