Overview
Manages engineers and technical staff in the research, design, development, coding, and testing of software systems, solutions, and products applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
Responsibilities
Software Engineering
- Manages and directs department activities. Assigns, coordinates, and reviews work of software engineering subordinates, to design new products, modify existing designs, improve production techniques, and develop test procedures.
- Analyzes technology trends to identify new product enhancements.
- Manage the development of test methodologies, plans, and procedures.
- Manage technical development to ensure compliance with product definitions including environmental requirements.
- Makes or reviews decisions regarding technical approaches or product designs with staff input considering resource allocation and ensures alignment with project plan.
- Confers with management, production, and marketing staff to determine feasibility, cost effectiveness and customer demand for new and existing products.
Management
- Hire, train, develop and appraise direct staff.
- Anticipates financial needs, quantifies budget to support project planning, and manages budget per forecast and schedules.
Qualifications
- Working knowledge of designing, development, coding, testing, debugging and implementing technical projects for the fabrication, modification and evaluation of new or existing software solutions or products.
- Proficient with commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within the Software Engineering field.
- Proficient in designing and developing requirements from specifications, oral instructions, or preliminary sketches.
- Agile software development and DevOps skills preferred.
- Ability to facilitate organizational transformation to support business strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to drive ownership and accountability in delivering quality products on time to customers.
- Ability to develop and implement test methods and procedures.
- Ability to work in a diverse, fast paced, ever changing environment.
- Demonstrated leadership, people and team building skills. Ability to effectively resolve staff issues as they arise.
- Excellent written and verbal skills with proactive attitude.
- Ability to effectively communicate between several departments within the global organization.
- Outstanding communication skills and demonstrated ability in developing and delivering complex business and technical presentations for senior management.
- Ability to introduce new technologies to improve cost, environmental and other product requirement constraints.
- Problem solving and troubleshooting skills required to meet design and qualification requirements.
- Ability to receive assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals.
- Proven ability to direct and coordinate staff in developing solutions to technical problems that require extensive investigation and clarification.
- Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).
- Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.
- 4-year degree, preferably in Engineering, Computer Science, or other Technical Degree.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or 9+ years of relevant software experience in lieu of a 4 year degree.
- 2+ years supervisory, team lead, or project leader experience.
- Cabin avionics and In-flight entertainment experience highly preferred.
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 15% of time.
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