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Harman Director, Software Excellence Cloud in Novi, Michigan
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 In this role, you will be responsible for driving the Software Factory strategy and culture across all of Harman Automotive to improve the Software engineering continuously. In brief, A Software Factory is an integrated set of tooling, services, data, and processes that enable engineers to plan, build, test, adaptively release, and/or operate and manage the software. You will lead a team of delivery experts to transform the engineering organization into a cloud-based design, development, and test factory. This role will work with the SBU product and project teams to utilize and implement a Software Factory approach, with a high degree of mastery and consistency. This team will also be responsible for looking externally to the industry to evaluate best practices for modern software development and delivery, of state-of-the-art technology products.
Your Team This leader will be responsible for a team of 8 direct reports.
What You Will Do
Evaluate industry operating model benchmarks and collaborate with SBU Engineering Excellence and technology leaders to define implementation roadmaps.
Lead a cross-functional team of engineers, architects, and technology leaders with expertise in building cloud-based software design, development, simulation, and testing methods.
Challenge, motivate, support, and hold accountable SBU product and project teams to adapt to new operating model initiatives (processes, tools, capabilities).
Partner with SBU engineering excellence, delivery, and domain leadership to define a shared enterprise-level software engineering strategy, test methodologies, and models, and drive full adoption and utilization by the product and project engineering teams.
Drive results and track effectiveness with performance metrics, targets, and outlook to drive continuous improvements for Automotive Engineering
Cultivate and grow engineering excellence concepts into a mature state of work (processes, tools, capabilities) for implementation readiness.
Collaborate with Automotive Services to leverage operating model initiatives to build software practices as a service.
Ensure that the interests of engineering stakeholders including Manufacturing, Digital Twin, Divisional Technology, Procurement, and Customer Groups are represented in implementing enterprise engineering operating models.
What You Need
Bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent
10+ years of related technical experience
5+ years in leadership of global teams in an automotive environment
Must have proven experience building cloud-based environments for development and testing environment
Hands-on and expert Knowledge and experience with Linux, Cloud Platforms (Azure preferred), and infra-automation such as Terraform, Docker Compose, GitOps, and shell scripting.
Deep understanding of software development processes in the automotive industry including Continuous Delivery and virtual simulation.
Experience implementing cloud-based development and testing environments
Experience in building up and mainta