Own predictable delivery for the planned release cadence, including readiness reviews, pilot support, stabilization, and product-line rollout.
Partner with Product Management and the Technical Architect to balance scope, sequencing, technical debt, risk, and business value.
Manage capacity against roadmap demand, identify skill gaps, support recruitment, and make build/buy/partner recommendations when appropriate.
Establish engineering metrics for flow, quality, reliability, security, and release readiness; use evidence to improve outcomes.
Ensure teams follow appropriate design, coding, review, testing, documentation, security, and operational practices.
Proactively manage delivery risks involving external teams, equipment availability, PLC/robot dependencies, customer pilots, and integration environments.
Facilitate decisions and escalation across stakeholders while keeping teams focused on outcomes.
Coach leads and senior engineers, conduct performance and development conversations, and build succession plans.
Support budget, vendor, and partner management where applicable.
## Required experience and capabilities
Minimum 12 years of software or product-engineering experience, including at least 4 years managing engineering teams or complex technical programs.
Successful delivery of multi-team, multi-release platforms involving Java/Spring Boot, APIs, CI/CD, security, and distributed systems.
Strong understanding of software architecture and engineering practices, with enough technical depth to challenge estimates, risks, and design decisions.
Experience managing modernization alongside ongoing product delivery and operational support.
Demonstrated workforce planning, hiring, coaching, performance management, and stakeholder-management capability.
Strong program execution skills covering planning, dependencies, risk, change, quality gates, and release readiness.
Experience in warehouse automation, robotics, industrial software, controls, or operational technology is highly desirable.
Clear, concise communication with engineering teams, product leaders, business stakeholders, partners, and customers.
## Core technical and leadership skills
Engineering management, workforce planning, coaching, hiring, and performance management
Multi-team roadmap execution, release planning, dependency management, and risk management
Java/Spring Boot platforms, APIs, microservices, and distributed-system fundamentals
Agile product delivery, engineering metrics, quality gates, and release readiness
DevOps/CI/CD, application security, automated testing, and production operations
Warehouse automation, robotics, PLC/control systems, Edge/HMI, or comparable industrial domains
Senior stakeholder, vendor, partner, and cross-functional program management
## Success measures
Roadmap commitments delivered predictably with transparent scope, capacity, and risk.
Teams staffed appropriately and able to work effectively across workstream boundaries.
Improved engineering throughput without compromising safety, security, quality, or maintainability.
Successful pilots and rollouts with controlled defect levels and timely stabilization.
Strong engagement, retention, skills growth, and leadership depth within the engineering organization.
## Preferred qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Automation, or a related discipline.
Experience delivering products through a scaled agile or comparable iterative delivery model.
Familiarity with product-line engineering and globally distributed development teams.
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