Engineering R&D Director with a background in a Software Electronics environment required for global role with market-leading multinational. The Director of R&D will be responsible for defining and leading the engineering strategy, executing on the product delivery for the International business, identifying and interpreting trends in technology, leveraging the re-use and platform strategy & leading a Regional Engineering team.
Requirements:
- Minimum BSEE
- 10+ years industry engineering experience
- Track record of leading geographically distributed teams able to deliver system solutions
- Knowledge / experience of (cloud) software engineering
- Competent in electronic hardware and software architectural design
- Knowledge / understanding of the Agile process, specifically the scrum process and experience in leading Agile teams
- Demonstrated team building and leadership skills
- Must be key driver contributing to the products roadmap and willing to take innovative product risk while balancing the road map for on time deliverables
- Ability to present project status and justification to executive management
- Manage diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities
- Strong relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills
- Professional and positive approach, self-motivated, strong in building relationships, team player, dynamic, creative with the ability to work on own initiative
- Exposure to business theory, business process development, governance processes, management, budgeting, and administrative operations
Responsibilities:
- Recruit and build teams with both technical depth and management leadership to support the business objectives
- Oversee the design and delivery of innovative solutions to meet customer requirements, keeping manufacturability aspects in mind
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to management
- Build relationships, motivate and develop technical staff to increase the Organizations technical capabilities
- Set department Engineering organization goals, align and lead resources to deliver products and solutions on time, on budget in accordance with International business plan and strategy
- Manage R&D budgets for the Business unit to meet agreed targets
- Ensure sustaining activities for the installed product is supported to meet customer and business service level agreement
- Support the integration of new R&D teams entering from acquisitions
- Drive, re-use and economies of scale for products, technologies and platforms
- Formulates long term objectives and standards of performance for International Engineering teams
- Partner with International Management Team stakeholders to understand and plan for future product release requirements
- Prioritize changing demands, multi-task, and meet aggressive timelines in a dynamic environment
- Provide leadership, maintain visibility and accessibility, build relationships and promote communication across the Engineering teams
- Ensures that the product development process and safe way of working is adopted and adhered to across the Engineering teams and the organization
- Responsible for the design, management and implementation of the system architecture
- Ensures execution and quality of Engineering output is high by measuring and maintaining clearly agreed KPI’s
- Develop / improve tools, systems and processes to increase organizational efficiency
- Keep up to date with industry trends, ensuring the company maintains and expands its technology leadership position
emer@emtechrecruitment.ie
