VMware Cloud on Dell EMC combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of on-premises infrastructure, delivered as-a-service to data center and edge locations. This fully-managed VMware service provides simple, secure, and scalable infrastructure for customer’s on-premises datacenter and edge locations. This unique approach empowers you to focus on business innovation and differentiation, while VMware operates the entire infrastructure end-to-end. For details: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/04/announcing-vmware-cloud-on-dell-emc.html

This role is to lead all engineering, ops and QE teams responsible for delivering the VMware Cloud on Dell EMCservice.

We are looking for a leader who has built and led geographically distributed software development teams and has been successful doing so. This role requires a leader who likes to roll up their sleeves and get into the details as much as coaching and mentoring a team of passionate software engineers. The leader should be able to establish and communicate the business objectives/vision and be able to align the team around this vision in their day to day work. We are looking for someone who is a veteran Software Leader with demonstrated experience in defining and implementing practical and effective strategy, policies, processes, and tools across global systems and can bring their experiences to bear. A deep understanding of cloud services, distributed systems, infrastructure, SaaS and platform software is required.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead software development teams to develop, document and maintain cutting edge software applications and systems.
• Manage hiring, career plans, training as well as performance reviews. Create plans to address growth of the team, product, and infrastructure, and to evolve systems/processes/environments that no longer work at current scale
• Provide leadership, management and technical vision to his entire engineering team of about 70+ Engineers.
• Develop and implement software engineering plans appropriately.
• Manage software engineering schedules, budget and resource allocation.
• Assist software development teams to attain optimal team performance through removing technical and procedural obstacles.
• Empower engineers to make the biggest impact possible for the company while reaching their professional development goals.
• Consistently deliver projects on-time with quality. Motivate all team members to deliver high quality projects within time and budget.
• Create a sense of accountability across the software organization and foster a culture that owns the misses and uses them to drive future process improvements.
• Create, measure, and report out key metrics for the performance of the software team
• Leverage resources to ensure software goals are met and establish best practices.
• Set the team up for the future by bringing in progressive software development concepts to the organization that focus on efficiency but sacrifice nothing on quality.
• Understand business objectives and build alignment and buy-in cross functionally.
• Champion continuous improvement efforts and defect reduction initiatives.

Your Profile

• BS/MS Degree in Engineering - Computer Science or equivalent.
• 15+ years of Software Engineering management experience; minimum 5 years as a Director.
• Experience with Enterprise and SaaS products
• 5+ years’ experience working and influencing in a cross functional team.
• Prior experience of leading and managing a team of 50+ global Software engineers with track record of successfully validating and delivering high quality products.
• Extensive knowledge of common, industry leading software development methodologies and awareness of when and where to rely on them.
• Technically able to understand complex systems and know how to build teams to deliver them
• Impeccable communication skills, adept at communicating to all levels of the organization.
• Able to work at a fast pace and encourage others to as well, experience taking a service from ground-level to many users is a plus
• Ability to manage managers in the software team, with a track record of successfully assembling effective teams and test solutions.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes and maintain high team morale and efficiency.
• Strong attention to detail and quality, and ability to direct the whole team to adapt best practices.
• Ability to measure team and individual’s performance through standardized key performance indicators, and ability to push the quality bar higher.
• Knowledgeable of the cutting-edge software development techniques and trends, implementing the technologies and ensuring higher quality products on projects.
• Knows how to develop proposals for projects to improve reliability, product quality and developmental cycle time and support continuous improvements to ensure that customer needs/requirements are adequately translated into product requirements.
• Ability to work collaboratively with hardware and software development engineering teams to ensure the right level of proactive focus is occurring to design for manufacturability, testing and reliability.

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Product Dev Management
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Work From Home: No
Posted Date: 2020-03-25

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