The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

You have an analytical mind and a passion for the craft of software engineering, and you love solving problems and learning new things. Technologies come and go, but that excites you because of the endless possibilities it creates. You are looking for an opportunity to work for a company whose software is utilized by every Fortune 500 company and significantly impacts every industry. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers’ business objectives.

Today's workplace is growing increasingly mobile. End-users need access to their desktops and corporate information from various devices and locations. For IT, the delivery, management and security of corporate desktops, applications and data is an exceedingly complex challenge. Our Omnissa team is building the next generation platform for enabling the mobile, modern workforce.

With Omnissa (formally End User Computing (EUC) unit at VMware), we are in the business of helping customers bring Business Mobility to reality: transforming their high-demand applications, building, and leading the next-generation desktop, and helping industries shift core business processes and operations to make things happen only possible in today's mobile environment. With over 60,000 customers around the globe, our Omnissa team is helping companies deliver work at the speed of life, and our technologies are leading what's happening next for users across the enterprise.

Workspace ONE is a digital workspace platform that simply and securely delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating access control, application management and multi-platform endpoint management. It is available as a cloud service or for on-premises deployment.

Omnissa Intelligent Hub is the single application our users need for work. On any personal or corporate device, users can search for, request, or launch any application with single sign-on, view a personalized feed of corporate communications, complete quick actions and access.

What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?

Our goal is to make Omnissa enable IT effectiveness at scale, and speed and enable customers to successfully implement hybrid work. We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a combined industry experience of at least 12 years, including a minimum of 4 years of technical leadership experience managing a team of software engineers. The candidate should have a strong background in architecting and designing desktop enterprise software using C#/.NET with windows internal knowledge.

As part of the Omnissa's Engineering team, you will be providing technical leadership by driving the design and development of major architecture components. You will be owning engineering initiatives and champion a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, engineering excellence along with solving customer’s issues. You will coach, manage, and mentor team of engineers.

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• During your first two months on the job, you will work on understanding the product architecture, existing product development tools and release process. You are expected to gain knowledge in the domain and the technology your team is already using and participate in the team’s scope & architectural discussions.
• By the sixth month we expect you to be in full control of the deliverables of your team. You work with your peer managers and product management team to build the product backlog, scope the projects working with your team members, make sure that they are delivered on-time and with the expected quality.
• You will have to participate in all phases of software development including requirements, design, coding, testing, debugging, and performance tuning along with handling customer issues.
• You will have to establish a reputation of leadership within a team and demonstrate influence within their area of expertise.
• You will have to collaboratively work across other product and component teams.
• You assume the people management responsibilities of a team of highly skilled software engineers.
• You create career plans with each team member that captures where they are, where they want to go, and the tangible steps that will help them address any gaps in their current skills and experience.
• Your team is healthy as determined by key metrics of engagement, retention, work/life balance, and delivery.
• You will have to be a subject matter expert with deep expertise in the key components of our data pipeline and platform.
• You will have to handle the interactions with product management, cross-functional teams, and other groups, internal and external to VMware, to define and deliver the required solutions.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Manage and lead a highly skilled engineering team and drive the design, implementation, and delivery.
• Take ownership of Product architecture, design, product quality, user experience, and security
• Communicate on regular basis with product management and release teams. As part of this team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams in multiple geographies to ensure product delivery and customer commitments are met on time.
• Our products are critical to our customers, and you will co-ordinate and collaborate with our support team to make sure our customer needs are met.
• Perform analysis of complex tasks or situations that required in-depth evaluation.
• Connect your team’s work to other parts of the product.
• Bringing clarity where there is uncertainty, managing risk and continuously delivering value.
• Train and mentor junior engineers by providing technical guidance and direction.
• Take initiatives and identify new areas of improvement for products, tools, and process.
• Manage activities to meet delivery dates and milestones and communicate status and risks to Engineering leads and project team.
• You will implement and improve processes around DevOps, Agile, and CI/CD
• You will be responsive to customer and product asks and escalations and help prioritize engineering work.
• You should be doing regular 1:1 with your direct reports, discussing short term and long-term goals making sure your engineers have the direction needed to be successful.
• Coach engineers and sustainably grow individuals on your team.
• As a people manager you will also be responsible for compensation and bonus planning and hiring
• You will be responsible for daily engineering activities such as stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, architectural reviews, customer support, release readiness.
• Championing a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

This role will be reporting to the Director of Engineering. The team consists of highly competent senior and junior engineers working closely as a team. Our team’s focus is on challenging the status quo by innovating but at the same time getting stuff done. We believe in building trust amongst team members, all our stakeholders and committing to make our customers successful. The team is organized based on modules to define clear responsibility and accountability. At the same time teams are fluid enough to own up whatever is needed for the larger product to be successful. The team is transparent in communication and help each other for the success of overall team. We believe engineers are the most valuable asset of our company and team. We put extra emphasis on providing great work life balance and having fun at work.

Where is this role located?

Atlanta, GA. The role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from a local Omnissa office and remote depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with your future manager.

This position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship by Omnissa.