What youll do :

Leadership and people (manager of managers) :

- Lead an organization of 45 to 50 embedded software engineers through 3 to 5 engineering managers and technical leaders.

- Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, career development, succession planning and retention for your leaders and their teams.

- Build a strong leadership bench, reduce single-point dependencies and develop the next line of managers.

- Set clear goals and priorities, run an effective operating rhythm, and create a healthy, inclusive and high-performance culture.

Delivery and execution :

- Deliver more than 95 percent on-time delivery across key portfolios while operating within a flat headcount and budget envelope.

- Own release predictability, software quality, defect triage, field issue resolution and customer escalations.

- Drive Agile and Scrum practices, milestone planning, risk management and cross-team dependency management.

Technical governance :

- Provide technical direction across embedded firmware, desktop, on-premise, cloud-connected and mobile applications.

- Own architecture governance, design and code reviews, reuse strategy, technical debt reduction and platform thinking.

- Ensure engineering rigor for safety-critical and regulated products, including functional safety and cybersecurity compliance.

Portfolio and stakeholders :

- Own multiple product lines across emergency lighting, fire safety, intrusion and UPS systems from concept to sustaining.

- Partner with product management, global engineering leaders, quality, supply chain and customers to align roadmaps and commitments.

- Contribute to annual operating planning, capacity planning, vendor strategy and capital and operating expense decisions.

Innovation and AI adoption :

- Champion AI-assisted engineering (for example code assistants and test automation) and drive measurable productivity and quality gains.

- Lead innovation initiatives, protect time for experimentation, and encourage patents, disclosures and reuse.

- Teach, mentor and coach engineering and Agile best practices across the broader engineering community.

Qualifications :

- Required : Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science or related engineering discipline.

- Desired : Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science or Embedded Systems.

Skills :

- 15 to 18 years of design experience of embedded systems software - embedded linux and RTOS.

- Prior experience as organizational leader for a minimum of 5 to 10 years in globally distributed teams.

- Experience leading organizations with at least 40 members.

- Experience utilizing best practices in software engineering, Agile development methodologies, CI/CD, DevOps, etc.

- Experience with budget, staffing and capacity planning for a sizeable engineering organization.

- Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.

- Experience in Embedded Systems including RTOS and Linux based platforms - Software stacks of FreeRTOS and Zephyr, Linux - Yocto, EdgeX.

- Track record of demonstrated launches of products.

- Proven digitally savvy leader experienced in delivering monetized IoT products and services to market.

- Experienced with software estimation techniques, fieldbus protocols for industrial IoT products.

- Ability to work within matrixed environments.

- Proven track record of building and managing successful development teams.

- Expert level working knowledge of open source software, agile methodologies, design thinking techniques and ability to employ open, shared and saleable development principles within an enterprise.

- Empathizes and actively learns about customers needs and how they create value.

- Builds relationships outside of engineering teams to understand, influence, and serve as their advocate.

- Demonstrated experience in building organizational capabilities around technology; develops high performing talent and builds succession depth.

- Strong organizational leadership skills.

- Extensive experience in hiring talented people for diverse, productive development teams.

- Ability to manage multiple projects and resolve issues that impact deadlines; ability to make decisions quickly under conflicting constraints, moving rapidly to meet the demands of a fast-growing company.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers and/or co-workers.