Description

In This Role Your Responsibilities Will Be:d

- Lead coach and develop a team of embedded software engineers providing explicit expectations meaningful feedback development opportunities and support for individual growth.

- Own people leadership responsibilities including hiring onboarding performance management recognition employee development conflict resolution and creating an inclusive and accountable team environment.

- Partner closely with software engineering leadership technical and feature leads project teams and global partners to align priorities staffing capacity commitments and resource needs across new product development and sustaining engineering.

- Improve team efficiency and execution by coaching engineers and Scrum Teams to plan estimate break down own and manage their work effectively in Azure DevOps.

- Help establish reinforce and continuously improve shared engineering processes Agile/Scrum ways of working tools metrics and disciplined execution of SDLA and IECaligned practices.

- Monitor team execution and organizational health surface risks and constraints remove barriers resolve conflicts and execution issues and drive accountability and continuous improvement.

- Partner with technical leaders who own deeper technical plans schedules work breakdown estimates risks design decisions technical reviews and sprint execution clarifying project-specific responsibilities through plans and RACI as needed.

- Contribute technical perspective where beneficial while keeping the primary focus on people development organizational effectiveness team execution and high-quality results rather than carrying regular software development capacity.

Who You Are:

- You create clarity align teams around priorities and hold yourself and others accountable for delivering commitments





- You build trust through open communication collaboration and consistent follow-through.

- You have grown your career through embedded software engineering roles and understand the challenges engineer face because you have solved many of them yourself.

- You leverage Agile Scrum and Azure DevOps as tools to improve execution while ensuring technical quality sound engineering decisions and customer outcomes.

- You combine strong engineering judgment with people leadership helping teams deliver results while developing individual capability.

- You develop people through coaching feedback mentoring and meaningful growth opportunities.

- You balance short-term execution with long-term capability building engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

- Korn Ferry Competencies: Drives Results Ensures Accountability Collaborates Instills Trust Strategic Mindset Cultivates Innovation Communicates Effectively Builds Effective Teams.

For This Role You Will Need:

- Bachelors degree in Engineering or Science from an engineering school required.

- Minimum of twelve (12) years of applicable experience

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

- Demonstrated people leadership experience including coaching performance management conflict resolution employee development hiring and building effective engineering teams.





- Experience leading software engineering teams and improving execution accountability collaboration and continuous improvement across multiple projects or priorities.

- Experience with Agile/Scrum software development and Azure DevOps including coaching teams on backlog quality planning estimation work ownership capacity metrics and delivery practices.

- Experience managing priorities staffing workload organizational risks and resource constraints while partnering effectively with project and technical leaders.

- Background in embedded software firmware software test or test automation with sufficient technical understanding to coach engineers and partner credibly with technical leaders.

- Experience with software development lifecycle processes and tools including requirements management traceability reviews configuration management continuous integration and quality practices.

- Experience with secure software development lifecycle practices; familiarity with IECor a similar product cybersecurity standard is preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to build trust resolve issues communicate technical and organizational decisions clearly and lead effectively across global cross-functional and reporting boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

- Were building the next generation of Liquid Analysis products around a highly visible program with significant market potential. Its real embedded engineering across software electronics sensors communications automation cybersecurity and test. Were also growing the software team around it so people joining now can influence not only the products but architecture automation engineering practices AI and how the team works.

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

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Required Experience:

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