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Senior Engineering Manager

AT Wind River
Wind River

Senior Engineering Manager

Chennai, India
Senior Engineering Manager 

JOB DESCRIPTION –
Wind River

In a world increasingly driven by software innovation, Wind River is pioneering the technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of our customers with a new generation of Mission Critical AI Systems in an AI-first world with the most exacting standards for safety, security, performance, and reliability. Success will be determined by our ability to innovate with velocity and sell at the solutions level.

Location: Bangalore/Chennai

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced high-performing Senior Manager - Engineering - for a position developing the industry’s most advanced embedded development platform.  

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The successful candidate will report to the Director Engineering, to build and lead a highly skilled development team delivering the Wind River HVP and Work Bench product and related tooling, pioneering many new industry leading capabilities. 
The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills, and the ability to manage as part of a large product team.  You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios.
Responsibilities 
  • Managing highly skill teams of engineers including career planning, goal setting, performance assessment, performance improvement, compensation, conflict resolution, and other people management tasks.
  • Contributing to ongoing releases and roadmap of Wind River HVP Platform
  • Work in the Agile environment, sprint planning and coordination across scrum teams.
  • Must contribute technically to Software design for flexible, extendable architecture.
  • Process development and implementation for the direct team and department.
  • Interfacing various other parts of the company such as Test team, Architect team, Engineering Operations, and Product Management to ensure delivery as per customer expectation.
 

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success 
·       Development engineering management skills as demonstrated by experience in planning and leading multiple engineering projects using modern project management techniques, including Agile/Scrum; building and motivating highly performing development teams to accomplish progressively aggressive goals; instill vision and direction clearly and create atmosphere of proactive ownership in team members; and superior skills in diagnosing and solving typical development issues. 
·       Personal skills such as time planning and organization; nimbleness; verbal and written communications to a wide variety of audiences; 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.
·       The ability to be an effective member of a team of managers includes 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 includes career planning; performance assessments; performance improvement; mentoring and helping people grow; compensation; and general care of development engineers.
·       Successful track record of prioritizing and quickly responding to urgent customer needs and adjusting other engineering work to accommodate.  Ability to interact with partners and customer counterparts when required.

Qualifications and Technical Skill
 
·       Bachelor or master’s degree in CS/EE or related areas. 
·       Java programming knowledge is a must. 
·       Good to have C/C++ programming experience. 
·       Working on Knowledge on Eclipse IDE platform. 
·       Skills in complex software architecture/design. 
·       Good to have knowledge of Embedded System Design with Device Driver and Board Support package
·       Good Reading/Writing/Oral English communication skills
BENEFITS 
  • Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work. 
  • Medical insurance: Group Medical Insurance coverage. 
  • Additional shared cost medical benefit in the form of reimbursements. 
  • Employee Assistance Program. 
  • Vacation and Time off: Employees are eligible for various types of paid time off. 
  • Additional Time off’s – Birthday, Volunteer Time off, Wedding. 
  • Wellness Benefits through  Unmind 
  • Carrot (Family -forming support) 
 
Client-provided location(s): Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job ID: oBxnvfwK-CcNLYfws
Employment Type: Other