Engineering Manager - Torreón

There are 7 billion people on this planet. And by 2050, there will be 2 billion more... many moving into urban centers at an unprecedented rate. Making sure there is enough food, fiber and infrastructure for our rapidly growing world is what we're all about at John Deere. And it's why we're investing in our people and our technology like never before in our more than 185 - year history. Here the world's brightest minds are tackling the world's biggest challenges. If you believe one person can make the world a better place, we'll put you to work. RIGHT NOW.
Title: Engineering Manager - Torreón
Primary Location: Torreon
Function: Technology (CA)
John Deere is a foremost leader in the ag equipment business, and we continue to put a solid stamp on other industries. For over 150 years, the company's portfolio of groundbreaking products has grown to include industries related to and outside of agriculture, including Turf, Construction and Forestry and Wind Technologies. The image of John Deere is no longer that of a signature green tractor meandering across a field; it's been replaced with an image of acceleration, swift progress, and innovative leaping toward the company's 200th year. The product line alone serves as proof with advances in machine performance, equipment automation, fleet management, and John Deere's ongoing investment in emerging markets.
Note: All candidates should have their tax situation certificate (Constancia de Siituación Fiscal) up to date with the salary regime to be eligible for the hiring process.
Main Responsibilites:

• Provides critical input into major technology decisions (e.g., upgrade decisions, major architectural decisions, establishment of coding standards) within the standards defined by relevant center of excellence groups and in alignment with the needs and priorities of the business.
• Supports the Group Engineering Manager and the business and acts as a servant leader to their product team(s).
• Ensures adherence to technical standards that will promote security, quality, delivery and cost effectiveness. Ensures scrum teams align their efforts to the needs of the business focused on value-driven outcomes.
• At this level, the product complexity is typically medium to high requiring demonstrated advanced knowledge of broader portion of the stack end-to- end (user applications ' underlying infrastructure); Generally, manages two or more scrum teams and solves problems requiring significant analytical and conceptual thinking; while issues are not novel, considerable creativity is needed to resolve them.

What Skills You Need:

• Provides team leadership, motivation and recognition communications, provides staff member with challenging roles and growth opportunities, and maintains collaborative relationships between unit divisions, factories and other IT busines capability areas (i.e. Manufacturing, Product Engineering,
  Finance etc).
• Hands-on experience in relevant technologies (including, but not limited to, Databricks, Python, Palantir, Data Engineering, API's, Cloud/AWS, React/JS, Containerization, Git/GitHub, Java etc).
• Understands the vision, strategy, and customer for the area of responsibility and influences the technical dimensions of the roadmap. Determines the right technology choices (e.g. upgrade decisions, hosting decisions) to best deliver business value within the development standards defined.
• Collaborates with Product Owners & Architects, ensures the design, selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of technology is successfully integrated and operated within the company's business environment.
• Resolves disagreements regarding technical requirements for interdependencies across teams.
• Drives Agile culture among teams, along with monitoring product health, technical debt and key team metrics.
• Manages the staffing strategy to ensure Scrum teams have highly engaged, appropriately staffed team members to ensure team longevity. Coordinates with HR the hiring of new team members.
• Understands financial implications of the technology and makes economically sound decisions. Provides input in the operating budget and has responsibility for managing it.
• Coordinates the use of internal technical support/resources and vendor support to provide higher levels of troubleshooting, maintenance, to meet business requirements and achieve results.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Understanding of Agile development processes and methodologies/tools.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain and Manufacturing business processes.
• Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
• At least 1 year of experience leading a team.
• Personally driven people leadership skills.
• Deep knowledge of information systems, technologies and architecture.

Education:

• Degree in Information Technology.

This position will be posted for a minimum of 10 business days and unposted when a qualified pool of candidates is achieved.
Candidates must have the necessary work permits to work in the country.