Worker Sub-Type:
Regular
Job Description:
BlackBerry® QNX® is a trusted supplier of safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, frameworks, and development tools, and provides premier support and services for building the world’s most critical embedded systems.
Think embedded, think QNX!
BlackBerry® QNX® is a trusted supplier of safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, frameworks and development tools, and provides expert support and services for building the world’s most critical embedded systems. The company’s technology is trusted in more than 255 million vehicles and is deployed in embedded systems around the world, across a range of industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, transportation, heavy machinery and robotics.
BlackBerry QNX software and development tools are standards-based and enable companies to adopt a scalable software platform strategy across product lines and business units. The BlackBerry QNX software portfolio, including our safety pre-certified product versions, is purpose built for embedded systems and scales to support everything from single-purpose devices to highly complex, mixed-criticality platforms.
Are you the person we are looking for?
Our Core Engineering team is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager (STPM) with recent experience in cross-functional project management and software development, particularly as it pertains to product and release management, ideally in the Embedded and RTOS Market. The successful candidate will plan, direct, manage, and coordinate the delivery and implementation of major or complex projects within approved cost, schedule and resource limitations while ensuring total customer satisfaction.
In return for your skills, expertise and enthusiasm, we will provide you with an attractive compensation & comprehensive benefits package. You will also have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic global environment, working alongside outstanding colleagues, delivering a ground-breaking embedded OS.
This really is a unique opportunity!
You will:
- Work with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Plan and ensures optimum use of shared resources; administers and monitors use against budget.
- Coordinates the compilation of required project records including plans, contracts, requirements & design documents, test plans & reports, and other technical data.
- Develops detailed schedules for major or complex projects, detailing all activities required for successful completion.
- Accountable for identification and mitigation of risk factors to drive successful completion of major or complex projects.
- Arranges the distribution of work packages to the responsible function within the company and/or external contractors ensuring awareness of and commitment to project requirements.
- Monitors progress throughout the project cycle, ensuring cost and time constraints are met and acting to ensure problem resolution, as necessary.
- Collaborates cross-functionally within engineering with software developers, testers, documentation experts, functional safety managers, quality management, product management and others to drive the project.
- Collabroates with cross-department stakeholders including Finance, Marketing and Sales.
- May liaise externally with customers and contractors in the context of a project.
- Proposes improvements to processes.
You will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience in technical program/project management, ideally in the Embedded and RTOS Market.
- Experience with software implementation project management, planning and deployments in an AGILE or iterative environment.
- Experience with managing multiple concurrent projects with different time frames.
- Experience as a software developer with experience in C, C++, Java, or other equivalents, knowledge of UNIX-based operating systems, ideally in the Embedded and RTOS Market. Systems engineering experience is an asset.
- Skills in project planning and management, decision making, critical thinking, problem solving.
- Proven flexibility and adaptability in management style
- Skills in effective leadership, innovation, analysis and communications.
It would be great if you have:
- Experience managing commercial software projects in the Embedded and RTOS Market.
- Any direct experience with QNX.
- Direct experience with implementing a software development organizations’ compliance to 2 of the 8 following quality-related standards:
- ISO 9001
- SEI-CMMI
- IEC 61508
- IEC 62304
- ISO/IEC 15504 ASPICE
- ISO 15408 Common Criteria
- ISO 26262
- ISO 21434
- PMP certification would be an asset but is not required
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Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
What We Do
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 195M+ cars on the road today. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry’s vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
