In a world increasingly driven by software innovation, Wind River is pioneering the technologies to help the world's leading technology companies power mission-critical intelligent systems.
Our software is enabling the new machine economy and accelerating digital transformation across industries, including aerospace, automotive, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Wind River Systems is seeking an efficient Manager of Engineering for a newly created position developing a framework spanning from the device to the cloud for DevSecOps verification and validation.
This includes Platforms, Tools, and Web Interfaces.
We're creating a critical system to speed the development of cloud and embedded connected intelligent systems.
Just a few examples could be autonomous cars, warehouse robots, or even drones.
**Responsibilities**
- Managing a team of engineers, contributing to ongoing releases of Wind Rivers Products including career planning, goal setting, performance assessment, coaching, performance improvement, compensation, conflict resolution, and other people management tasks
- Collaborate proactively across product engineering to help define harmonized testing procedures and pipelines
- Lead overall product quality process and direction of testing
- Collaborate with peers, to foster quality discipline within all the product engineering teams
- Support and enablement of the unit and feature testing within the product development teams
- Responsible for the regression, integration, performance, and system testing within the transversal verification and validation teams
- Work to reduce complexity and improve the maintainability of our testing and automation framework
- Influence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineers
- Support and encourage solid engineering processes (e.g., Agile, Lean, TDD, kanban, scrum, etc.)
- Working with a team of developers and program managers and/or directors to coordinate work and assure delivery of projects and products
- Process development and implementation for the direct team/s and department.
- Contributing to budget allocation and monitoring
- Mentor others and provide cross-team input
- Interfacing with various other parts of the company such as Services, Support, Engineering Operations, and Product Management
**ABOUT YOU**
Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success
- Verification and Validation engineering management skills as demonstrated by experience in planning and leading multiple engineering projects using modern project management techniques; building and motivating a team to accomplish progressively aggressive goals; and superior skills in diagnosing and solving typical testing issues
- Personal skills such as time planning and organization; nimbleness; verbal and written communications; effectiveness as a team member; enthusiastic leadership; personal drive, energy, resourcefulness, and perseverance; integrity; adaptability to new and uncertain environments; a desire to improve practices and processes; and enthusiastic leadership
- Experience contributing to open-source projects and leading in the open-source community
- The ability to be an effective member of a team of directors and managers including: a drive to accomplish the collective goals of the team; the ability to fairly and effectively negotiate; and an attitude that puts the good of the team ahead of one's individual needs when required
- Experience in people management including career planning; performance assessments; performance improvement; setting and evaluating goals; compensation; and general care of development engineers.
- Agile, Lean, and Scrum evangelist and transformation agent
**Qualifications**:
- 7+ years of relevant software verification and validation experience.
Experience in DevOps methodologies and such cloud and opensource technologies as AWS, LogStash, Kubernetes, Istio, Harbor, and Minio
- 5+ years of people/project management as part of a larger team with interdependent responsibilities in an engineering environment
- Relevant technical BS, Engineering, or computer science degree
- Business/management degree or coursework desirable.
(Experience can substitute)
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