Software Engineering Manager
About the Team
Our Software Methodology group is on a mission to support software development teams within the company to improve their code quality and enable them to collaborate globally. This includes not only the necessary tooling around task & bug tracking, source code management, code scanning, CI/CD, and OSS compliance but also methodology to improve software process quality.
The Role:
- Manage the team of business analysts, SW methodology engineers and SW Methodology process and audit colleagues in our Stuttgart site and multiple remote locations
- Support and define scalable SW development processes to be used company wide
- Understand the existing tool landscape and be able to develop new applications based on it.
- Provide comprehensive architecture to support robust, scalable and maintainable systems at an enterprise scale
- Support tool landscape assessment after acquisitions and come up with a proposed migration plan
- Support the engineering / IT roadmap process and provide regular status updates on projects. Highlight risks in time
- Support our internal customers using our existing systems in case of problems
- Perform regular on-site visits of the engineering / SW developer locations
- Stay within the approved budget and seek for opportunities for cost savings
- Ensure high availability of the SW Methodology tool landscape (>=99.95% uptime per year, excluding scheduled downtime)
- Project / task management and implementation performance based on agreed time scheduled with the business
- Manage external labor in regards of budget and deliverables as required to deliver projects according to the project plan.
- Integrate into the existing team and be able to work together on tasks. Supervise and mentor more junior staff
- Ability and willingness to learn new skills over time which are required for the job. This requires regular conference and training visits
What We Are Looking For:
- Bachelor or Master degree with relevant background (Computer, IT, Science,…)
- At least 10 years of professional experience, preferred in an architect role for software developer tools
- Deep understanding of up-to-date SW developer methodologies and tooling
- Expertise in Jira, Jenkins and BitBucket is desirable
- Line management experience is desirable
- Project management skills
- Good People skills and interaction with stakeholders at all levels are highly desirable
- Advanced experience in Windows and Linux operating systems
- Advanced knowledge of version control systems like SVN / GIT
- Ability to present results / architecture
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