CN Customer Solutions & Innovation Engineering is seeking a Manager of Engineering Delivery to lead the delivery of strategic supply chain logistics products. Your mission will be to organize the engineering activities of product portfolio delivery using SAFe/Scrum planning and ensure functional soundness and reliability of complex distributed systems.
As an engineering delivery expert and experienced manager, you will lead teams to build industry leading engineering solutions and define engineering standards. You will be responsible ensure initiatives are implementing best practices of Software Engineering, DevSecOps and Agility and to define continuous improvement objectives in collaboration with the leadership team and other IT groups.
· Project Scoping - Translate business requirements into project delivery plans.
· Project Staffing - Create agile delivery PODs with properly skilled people.
· Project Delivery - Drive project execution and quality with regular engineering reviews.
· People Management - management of direct reports, goals setting, career development, hiring, work assignments, team performance.
· Talent Development - ensure people have clear skill growth objectives in alignment with strategic technology directions and required training resources.
· Staff Aug Management - Manage the performance of staff augmentation partners to ensure timely staffing of top talent resources.
· Ensure financial objectives are reached and tracked (OPEX/CAPEX).
· Drive clear practice improvement goals with clear outcomes and value.
· Drive adoption of Agility and Engineering best practices enable the acceleration of business value delivery.
· Govern the application of best practices, standard and improvements through quantifiable metrics and review process.
· Drive the team to identify emergent technologies and strategies in the industry to accelerate delivery cycles.
· Bachelor's degree in technology related field or equivalent experience
· Leadership.
· Communication.
· Engineering and Product Delivery management.
· Business Acumen.
· Ability to inspire and motivate and to lead by example.
· Strong listening skills and ability to manage difficult situations.
· Strong capacity to manage conflicting priorities and adapt to change.
§ Strong experience leading practices and the work of others.
§ Strong experience with program management and Agile delivery
§ Strong experience managing all phases of software SDLC.
§ Strong ability to manage priorities in an evolving environment and to handle multiple demands.
§ Knowledge of programming languages like Java is a strong asset
§ Knowledge of web and mobile development stacks is a strong asset.
§ Knowledge of API and micro-services is a strong asset
§ Knowledge of Systems Integration is a strong asset
§ Knowledge of DevOps is a strong asset.
§ Knowledge of SAFe methodology an asset.
· Lead the engineering and delivery of products with very high strategic value and business visibility
· Lead strategic engineering practices and modernization approaches of the customer and innovation group
· Create strategic technology directions
· Define continuous improvement objectives
· Be a leader in the innovation engineering group
· Influence senior management and execs to adopt strategic directions
· Influence and evangelize cutting edge technology, product development and engineering practices to the wider CN I&T organization
· Manage direct report and their career development
· Be a functional and though leader to indirect reports
· Lead as an Individual Contributor
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