Sr. Manager, Software

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. Youll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxters products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together we create a place where we are happy successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role at Baxter

Baxters mission is to save and sustain lives and as a Sr. Manager your work contributes directly to achieving that mission and making a significant impact on others. It is challenging work but we help each other. Our teams collaborate crossfunctionally and work together to achieve the best outcome for patients and caregivers.

What youll be doing

As a Sr. Manager you will be responsible for leading and facilitating the research and development of advanced medical device software saving lives across the whole world. You will be guiding development over the whole device lifecycle including architecture design development and sustaining engineering for new and existing products. The successful candidate will possess a strong technical background experience with scoping and tasking software teams utilization of Agile principles for project management a vision for software development and a passion for their work in transforming healthcare.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with cross functional teams to define software project scope work with software teams to determine time estimations and creation of schedules and facilitate the execution of the software work.
• Have software team members at various levels reporting to you and you will be responsible for tasking and evaluating the skill and performance of those individuals.
• Lead project development utilizing Agile principles ideally you will be a certified SCRUM master.
• Deal with personnel activities such as evaluation and development planning for your group of direct reports as well as sharing company information and plans to keep the team engaged and up to date.
• Understand the cross functional dependencies both in and out of the software team to promote communication and alignment to keep teams moving.
• Maintain at minimum a highlevel understanding of technical issues and solutions so that you can communicate effectively with the software engineers on your team as well as explain concepts cross functionally to groups that may or may not have technical background.
• Manage a hybrid team of remote and onsite software engineers providing coaching mentoring career guidance and growth opportunities.
• Protecting our products from risks to patient safety and ensuring compliance with applicable codes and standards.

What youll bring:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related discipline.
• 10 years experience of progressing work in software development.
• Ideal candidate will have experience with complex Linux systems utilizing a graphical user interface connected peripherals modern security features and connectivity.
• Experience with Android systems a plus.
• 3 years experience of people leadership running new and sustaining software projects with cross functional inputs.
• 3 years experience working in and/or leading an Agile development environment.
• Understanding of modern development practices like testdriven development platforming and design patterns; with a passion for improving software development practices.
• Excellent communication skills to share that vision with crossfunctional stakeholders.
• Serve first leadership attitude with a track record of providing a positive and encouraging environment for engineering teams.
  

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating inperson in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal its discretion Baxter may decide to adjust suspend or discontinue as business needs change.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter we are committed to equitable pay for all our employees and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. To that end this position has a salary range of $160000 to $220000 and also includes an annual incentive bonus. The above range represents the expected salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including but not limited to relevant skills/experience time in the role business line and geographic/office location.

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US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your wellbeing matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and wellbeing benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one as well as insurance coverage for basic life accident shortterm and longterm disability and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts educational assistance programs and timeoff benefits such as paid holidays paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service family and medical leaves of absence and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits the Employee Discount Program the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits Baxter

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