Software Engineering Manager

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With over 9,000-plus team members around the world, Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with globe-spanning reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we're always looking for top talent ready to bring their best.

Alkegen is committed to become the world's most sought-after specialty materials platform dedicated to sustainability and human health. Our products help people live cleaner, breathe easier, and go farther than ever before.

We are a global leader in the areas of Filtration, Battery, Fire Protection and Industrial Thermal Management.

Our values, company culture, and diversity of experience enable us to innovate and engineer solutions to tackle some of today's toughest challenges, and in particular for this role support the advancement of engineered materials and system solutions to improve fire safety. Join the team

Software Engineering Manager
Leadership and Strategy Responsibilities:• Lead the software engineering organization to successful delivery of business outcomes.• Manage the software engineering budget, with ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.• Build strong working relationships with business leaders to ensure software engineering teams meet expectations and contribute to achievement of business goals.• Collaborate with IT and business leaders to develop short- and long-term strategic plans.• Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software development work to test new ideas, within bounded cost and time frames.• Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the software engineering organization.• [Where applicable:] Work with product management leadership to design, manage, and/or execute product roadmaps.
Talent Management Responsibilities• Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization's current and future software engineering needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent. • Manage resource allocation across teams to maximize business impact of resources and ensure each team has the skills and capabilities needed to achieve its objectives.• Manage software engineering talent, playing a key role in performance management and compensation processes, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.• Partner with Human Resources to create learning and development opportunities aligned to the organization's skill and capability needs, and to provide rewarding career paths for software engineering staff.• Recruit and hire talent to address new needs and skill gaps.• Build a culture that supports learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness.• Manage employee engagement and promote a compelling employee value proposition to retain software engineering staff.

Oversight Responsibilities for Software Engineering Activities• Champion best practices and modern software development methods and tools. • Lead software engineering teams and other stakeholders to set goals for improving code quality, maintainability, security, and scalability. Monitor progress against these goals.• Implement and manage software development status reporting, metrics, and benchmarks.• Manage collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations to ensure software performs well in production and meets SLAs. • Work with the Chief Information Security Officer to ensure software is effectively secured and that risks are mitigated.• Oversee management of relationships with consultants, vendors, and contractors and support negotiation of statements of work and business terms with suppliers.• [Where applicable:] In collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations leaders, oversee DevOps processes and practices, including automating the handoff of code releases from development to operations.

Skills and Experience• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience.• Strong talent management skills including talent development, coaching, mentoring, and team motivation.• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.• Ability to build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships at all levels of the organization.• Strong business acumen and ability to understand and drive business objectives.• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.• Strong organizational skills, including an ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources.• Understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.• Understanding of relevant tools and platforms (e.g. cloud platforms, web technologies, client-server technologies, continuous integration and deployment), with an eagerness to learn about new and unfamiliar technologies.• Adaptability and ability to manage rapid change in business needs, processes, or technologies.

Qualifications• Bachelor's degree or equivalent applied experience. • 10+ years of experience in software engineering.• 5+ years of experience in managing talent.• Experience managing a team of at least 5 to 10 employees.• Background in manufacturing preferred.

If you are interested in being part of a world class IT function here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you.

Alkegen is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion throughout the organization. We recognize that we can learn better together with a diverse team of employees and that our individual differences, experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation.

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