Manager, Software Engineering
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Manager, Software Engineering
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
How Will You Make an Impact
Seeking a strategic technical leader with expertise in process innovation, product development, AI integration, and platform engineering.
This position encompasses more than just engineering; it demands systems thinking, technical proficiency, and the capacity to lead implementation teams while crafting vision and adoption strategy.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Hands-on management of a team of highly skilled software developers, testers and domain experts-ensuring excellent execution of Agile/SCRUM processes and repeatable, predictable, and high-quality delivery of software solutions.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, resource planning, and drive the successful growth of the team.
- Participate in and be responsible for the build and development of new software and/or extensive software revisions.
- Work with the product owner to define technical requirements and priorities then create user stories, designs, and development tasks to be delegated to the team.
- Identify areas to collaborate on across the different domains in order to drive consistency, technology and process sharing, as well as code re-use.
- Represent the team in cross-organizational development forums as well as customer requirements gathering and software validation and training sessions.
- Rely on extensive experience and judgment to understand sophisticated problems and resolve them efficiently, Use prior knowledge and experience to provide functional and technical support and leadership to colleagues.
Candidate Requirement: Education & Experience levels:
Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or Master degree or equivalent with 10+ years of overall Experience.
Skills Knowledge & Experience:
- 10+ years of overall experience or played a Technical leadership role recently.
- Proven track record in designing and building scalable, cost efficient system software and familiarity hardware communication protocols (e.g., RS-232, USB, TCP/IP) for medical instruments.
- 6+ years of experience of Design and develop C#/.NET applications to control and connect with instruments and hardware components.
- Has experience to collaborate with electrical and mechanical engineering to define software–hardware interfaces.
- Has 2+ years of experience in developing and maintain data acquisition, signal processing, and visualization modules.
- Has 3+ years of proven experience to support instrument calibration, diagnostics, and fixing.
- Anticipates needs and problems while creating solutions. Is willing to ask difficult questions and thinks creatively. Greets challenge and change as opportunity.
- 3 + years of experience in building customer centric distributed software.
- 2+ years of experience leading a development team in an Agile/SCRUM setting, with proven ability in project/task estimation, delegation, and management.
- 2+ years of experience in people management and experience working with geographically distributed teams.
- A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and “figure out what needs figuring out”. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to optimally document artifacts and processes then explain them to others.
