Overview
The Software Development Director will lead the development and DevOps for the Empower Solutions Portfolio. This position will have 6-8 direct and up to 100 indirect reports. A primary responsibility will be positioning the organization for growth, particularly in the cloud domain - identifying the necessary skills, talent locations, and building additional development teams from the ground up. The Software Development Director will also work closely with the Portfolio Project Manager to estimate, plan, and deliver the roadmap, both for on-prem and cloud applications.
Responsibilities
- Direct and oversee the software engineering function in developing, releasing, and maintaining on-prem and cloud applications according to business needs.
- Translate the portfolio roadmap to capabilities and resource capacity, identify such gaps, develop and implement a plan to fill them.
- Develop an outsource/insource strategy and build new cloud software development teams from the ground up.
- Develop operational and capex budgets.
- Coordinate the development execution and assign teams to work based on capabilities and roadmap priorities.
- Track progress towards portfolio KPIs and hit delivery objectives with a high degree of accuracy.
- Ensure the development teams adhere to the Qualitry Process and engineering practices defined by the Chief Engineer.
- Identify opportunities for execution efficiency improvement.
- Mentor and help develop delivery-oriented skills in the staff.
- Interview, hire, onboard, and regularly evaluate lower-level management.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant field
- At least 10 years of experience in software engineering
- At least 5 years of managerial experience
- Experience with budgeting, planning, and execution of all aspects of a software development organization
- Proven experience with delivery of software products on time
- Experience with building teams from the ground up
- Experience with cloud software engineering
- Experience working with remote outsource teams
- Experience with Agile Scrum software development
- Solid presentation and communication skills
- Operating with integrity, transparency, and humility
- Acting as a true company owner to advance the overall interests of Waters
- Carrying a broad global perspective of markets, tech, and trends
- Balancing clear strategic thinking and accountability in execution to deliver results
- Creating the conditions for Waters' people and teams to succeed
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.
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