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In this role, you will lead the team, develop skills and create development plans while defining the software engineering strategy and overseeing quality reviews throughout the entire software lifecycle.
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Your role in the team
- Lead, coach and develop Team Leads; establish clear responsibilities, interfaces, decision rights and delegated accountability.
- Own and drive discipline-wide competence and skill development, including skills gap assessments, competence matrices, individual development plans, training roadmaps and succession planning, ensuring current and future Hardware Engineering capabilities aligned with business and technology needs.
- Define and execute the Software Engineering discipline strategy and roadmap aligned with LAS Engineering, CBU/BL, and business objectives, including the Engineering Performance Plan (EPP).
- Define and govern the Software Engineering framework across software architecture/design, implementation, integration, testing, configuration and lifecycle practices.
- Drive software development maturity, quality, reuse, automation, and modern toolchains; align capability and technology roadmaps with system/product needs and cybersecurity requirements.
- Own workforce, headcount and capacity planning; allocate people and critical expertise across projects, products, bids and discipline activities in close collaboration with the Team Leads.
- Own discipline budgets and cost centres, contribute to S&OP and multi-year planning, and track KPIs for capability, maturity, delivery, efficiency, cost and competitiveness.
- Own discipline processes, methods, tools, standards and best practices; drive continuous improvement, root-cause problem solving, reuse and lessons learned.
- Oversee critical projects and reviews; resolve or escalate cross-team technical, resource, and capability conflicts within applicable governance.
- Ensure compliance with Engineering and company governance; contribute to bids, audits, peer reviews, and major Engineering decision gates.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Completed technical studies, e.g. computer science, software engineering or a similar field.
- Senior engineering leadership through Team Leads in complex multidisciplinary environments.
- Software engineering expertise in architecture, lifecycle, configuration, integration and testing, and quality practices.
- Embedded/real-time software development, CI/CD, and test automation are an advantage.
- Cybersecurity practices and modern software toolchains are an advantage.
- Workforce, competence and skill development, resource/capacity and performance management.
- Discipline strategy, processes, standards, governance and cross-functional coordination.
- Strategic thinking with pragmatic, execution-focused ownership.
- Clear communication, stakeholder influence and cross-functional collaboration.
- Structured prioritization, conflict resolution and decision-making.
- Accountability, continuous improvement and results orientation.
- Willingness to travel.
- Very good German and English skills.
Experience
- Extensive software development experience with complex technical systems.
- Experience with S&OP, multi-year planning and international technical governance is an advantage.
Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
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About your employer
We combine diverse skills, talents and cultures to design and deliver exceptional high-tech solutions. Solutions that make it possible to act today tomorrow. From the bottom of the ocean to outer space and beyond, we help our clients think smarter and act faster - with ever-increasing complexity and every crucial moment along the way.
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Employer reviews
- Team culture
- 3.8
- Engineering
- 3.0
- Working conditions
- 3.8
- Career growth
- 3.4
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