Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Telematics

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

About the Role

Senior Manager, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TEAM will have team of Software Project Engineers, Software Engineers supporting all customer programs in the region. The leader is expected to have excellent people management skills and should be knowledgeable with established system and software development processes and methods in connectivity and telematics domains.
Your Team

This position will have 8 – 12 direct reports at the capacity of Software Project Engineers and Software Engineer in “Alliance Excellence Team”
What You Will Do

• Central point of contact for Software related activities/deliveries, especially between customers.
• Providing guidance to the team in order to resolve software related issues and realize a stable and high performant systems
• Interact closely under constant synchronization with Harman’s teams and with SBU global teams in other geographies including Germany, Romania and India development center.
• Enables and develops the teams towards efficient work with the internal/external customers and organizations ensuring high re-usability / knowledge sharing between projects.
• Manages daily operations of team and resolves problems.
• Leads by example, motivates, and manages the teams working on different projects by objectives.
• Defines, drives, and monitors activities within the organization to achieve maximum synergies and efficiency.
• Facilitate a team communication environment that enables the Harman culture.
• Contributes to the formation of strategy and plans at department level.
• Appropriate and effective management of the departmental budget
• Has the ability to innovate (as necessary) towards using new processes and methods to improve efficiency or to react to changing project timing/requirements.
• Acts within a multicultural environment as a point of contact for all stakeholders for this team inside and outside of the SBU Connectivity organization.
• Ensure the team follows HARMAN process and procedures to deliver the products, in-time, on-quality within budget.
• Maintain a process-oriented culture within the team. Identify, track & demonstrate continuous improvement across KPIs.
• Develop-, Mentor- the team members toward their carrier aspiration and ensuring the quality, documenting and reporting

What You Need

• Bachelor in engineering (Computer Science, information systems or equivalent experience)
• Effective Experience in managing/coordinating teams and domains.
• Program Delivery Expertise
• Ability and affinity to understand technical concepts in embedded system environment.
• Effectively supervising, leading, and delegating tasks and authority
• Excellent knowledge of performance evaluation techniques and key metrics
• Knowledge of data analysis, reporting and budgeting
• Financial acumen to manage budgeting and forecasting.
• Efficiently meeting deadlines, schedules, and target dates
• Good English/Japanese communication skills both written and verbal
• Good understanding of System and SW development process standards (ASPICE preferred) and state-of-the-art agile engineering methods (SAFe preferred)

What is Nice to Have

• System and Software Expertise
• Experience with Japanese automotive OEMs
• Distinct diplomatic and soft skills

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 30%, domestic only OR domestic and international travel
• Successfully complete a background investigation/Aptitude Test as a condition of employment.

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What We Offer

• We offer an authentic diverse, equal, and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
• You will work on products and services that touch people’s lives and will change the industrial standards, being a part of the transformations in our industry.
• Our work environments are fast paced, challenging, empowering, collaborative, flexible and exciting.
• We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
• We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.