Manager Engineering System Engineering

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Manager Engineering System Engineering

Position Summary

Seeking an experiencedEngineering Managertolead and enable a System Engineering teamwithin the Autonomy and Automation Product Group. This role is accountable for guiding the team responsible for systemlevel design integration and technical governance across complex software products operating in bothonpremises and cloud environments. The position ensures the team consistently delivers endtoend system coherence and effective integration with various software and hardware systems.

The role will lead the establishment and application of strong system engineering practices across the team including requirements decomposition interface definition crosscomponent design alignment and proactive technical risk management across programs. Through close partnership with product platform and delivery teams the role ensures the team translates product intent into executable and sustainable system designs that meet functional nonfunctional and operational requirements of the product.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead coach and developa multidisciplinary system engineering team setting clear expectations and creating an environment that enables technical excellence accountability and continuous improvement.
• Guide the teamin owning systemlevel design integration across complex software products operating in onpremises and cloud environments ensuring architectural integrity and endtoend system coherence.
• Ensure the team establishes and consistently appliessystem engineering practices including requirements decomposition interface definition crosscomponent design alignment and traceability across product lines and platform initiatives.
• Enable the teamto define and validate system architectures that meet functional nonfunctional operational scalability reliability and cybersecurity requirements.
• Foster strong collaborationbetween system engineers product platform and delivery teams ensuring product intent is translated into executable system designs
• Hold the team accountablefor proactively identifying communicating and mitigating systemlevel technical risks including dependency management integration readiness and legacy platform constraints.
• Ensure effective participationof the team in architecture and design reviews
• Ensure the team operates effectively within SAFe / Agile environments contributing systemengineering inputs architectural runway and integration considerations into program increment and sprint planning activities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 15 yearsof experience in software engineering and technical leadership including7 years in system engineering roles within large global organizations.
• Provensystem engineering leadershipacross system architecture integration and technical governance.
• Experience leadingcrossfunctional engineering teamsand aligning product platform and delivery stakeholders.
• Background deliveringlargescale missioncritical systemsin industrial domains such as telematics / IoT autonomy aerospace or other similar domains
• Strong experience withsystem integration dependency management across both onpremises and cloud environments.
• Experience intranslating business needs into scalable system designsand manage systemlevel risks and tradeoffs.
• Solid understanding ofsystem engineering fundamentals including requirements interfaces architecture alignment and nonfunctional requirements.
• Experience operating withinAgile / SAFe environments ensuring system engineering inputs are reflected in planning.
• Clear effectivetechnical communication and leadershipskills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.

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