HID - Engineering Manager - Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Description:

Profile Summary:

As an Engineering Manager, You will oversee new technology delivery, maintenance, and the future engineering roadmap for multiple sets of features / product areas.

The Scrum Master, Engineering Manager role will partner closely with the Engineering and Product leadership teams for developing cutting edge solutions.

Manage the daily tasks of guiding a Scrum team.

Interact directly with Stakeholders to understand Business and Functional requirements.

Facilitate dissemination of requirements and acceptance criteria to the engineering team.

Hold the appropriate Scrum/Agile meetings (backlog pruning, planning meetings, post-mortems, stand ups, etc.

About HID Global :

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the worlds people, places and things.

We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

Our trusted identity solutions give people secure and convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be accurately identified, verified and tracked digitally.

Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID.

We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses, and some of the most innovative companies on the planet.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 4500 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries.

HID Global is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand.

HID Global has is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers and users around the world.

In India, we have two Engineering Centre (Bangalore and Chennai).

Global Engineering Team is based in Chennai and one of the Business Unit Engineering team is based in Bangalore.

If you excel at communication, collaboration, and unrelenting innovation, we want to talk to you.

And if you bring dedication, positive energy and integrity to the table, you just might be the right fit for our team.

Qualifications :

- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

- Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Roles & Responsibilities (Other Duties May Be Assigned) :

- Build highly talented, top-performing, efficient, autonomous engineering teams

- Set performance goals/objectives working along with the team member

- Evaluating performance, including team input.

- Providing input, guidance, and corrective actions.

- Plan training and other skills development for the team

- Be the first level of escalation point for any delivery related issues across programs that he/she is assigned

- Lead and coordinate design & code reviews across teams

- Maintain Quality Focus & reporting engineering metrics

- Participate in Retrospective workshops, PI planning, System Demo, and Solution Demo

- Listen to and support teams for problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making

- Track key performance metrics at the team level through Jira

- Drive tactical team-level improvement for Scrum processes

- Coordinate with product leads to drive alignment on sprint priorities

- Drive improvements in release quality

- Able to identify, coach and mentor team members to become servant leaders of Agile programs and self-directed teams

Technical Requirements :

- 12+ years of industry experience and 4+ years of experience in Agile Project Management

- Ability to manage technical projects from conception to completion

- Should have experience with release coordination & project administration tasks

- Experience using Agile PM software (Jira, Confluence, etc)

Experience and/or Education Qualification :

- Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required, with graduate degree preferred

- 12+ years of overall experience in Application/Solution Development domain

- 5+ years of experience as Scrum Master

- 8+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager

- Experience with full product lifecycle

- Experience with Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence, etc

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills