Director of Global Systems Engineering

Director, Global Systems Engineering

 
The Director of Systems Engineering will build and lead a team which has primary ownership of the entire system architecture for each offering.  This team leads and coordinates interdisciplinary engineering activities and deliverables for complex programs.  They create and manage system engineering designs to support interface management; system performance, reliability, and cost allocations; including use case and sequence diagrams and network diagrams, mapping system requirements to physical and functional architecture and conducting configuration management of system configurations.
In this role you will build a team to
Provide Technical Leadership for Offerings
Provide thought leadership with Offering Management and with customers by clearly articulating our value proposition.
Actively engage with customers, sales, offering management, UX, channel partners, and domain experts to develop a deep understanding of the offering’s target customers, their priorities and pain points.
Competitive benchmarking
Establish an architectural roadmap which enables differentiated customer outcomes and defines product level performance and “ility” milestones aligned with the product platform roadmap and the Go-To-Market strategy (direct versus channel).
Own the platform alignment roadmap and ensure individual NPIs are aligned to the agreed upon platform strategy
Bring electrical, mechanical, embedded software, application development, data science, and systems engineering together to create a common vision with clearly defined interfaces between subsystems.
Provide New Product Development Leadership
Develop system architecture and design concepts and requirements to address identified customer needs, translate customer needs into technical requirements. Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Define and align all product and subsystem teams to an incremental ‘vertical slice’ development plan that delivers increasingly functional working increments.
Lead the design team in identifying opportunities for reuse and in designing components, modules and platforms for extensibility, scalability, and reuse
Support the direction and/or down-selection of design concepts with a system level view
Define system performance and “ility” requirements and optimize cost, schedule, and risk through allocation of overall performance goals.  Work directly with individual product design owners across the company to perform system architecture trade studies and allocate system level requirements
Drive simulation, modeling, analysis, and data collection at the system level
Align architecture with DevSecOps roadmap and strategy
Identify and retire critical technical risks by leading system level FMEAs, driving mitigation actions, and working across subsystem owners to drive subsystem level risk mitigation.
Review overall Test Strategy and Test Plans (Application, System Integration, System, Software & Manufacturing Testing) and ensure adequate Product Test Coverage.  Identify and support the test and integration activities required to verify and validate the system against customer application requirements.
Provide Sustaining Leadership
Lead Problem Solving and RCAs by working with responsible engineers from multiple disciplines to solve complex customer application and cross domain issues.
Maintain Traceability leveraging tools
Work with Offering Management to define and manage the product lifecycle including backward and forward compatibility requirements. Coordinate sunsetting activities aligned to the end of sale, and end of support timelines.
Ensure roadmaps align to evolving regulatory requirements globally.

A Successful Candidate Must Have
Bachelor of Science in Systems, Aerospace, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering or equivalent discipline
 > 10 years of experience in a Product or Systems Engineering role
> 5 years of experience leading a team of Systems Engineers
A passion for customer driven innovation
Strong fundamental knowledge and intuition in the mechanical, electrical, embedded systems and controls domains
Ability to identify key metrics, summarize and present results through presentations and documentation
Able to lead a cross-functional team and provide guidance and direction to both junior and senior level engineers
Experience with the full product life cycle, having been responsible for a commercial offering from inception through commercialization
Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
Experience with systems engineering requirements and concept development; design and development of system architecture; systems hardware and software design and development; system integration and test; and model-based system engineering principles and tools used to generate systems engineering deliverables.
Experience with working on complex problems spanning from edge to cloud and providing highly innovative solutions

We also value
Master of Science in Systems, Aerospace, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering or equivalent discipline
 > 15 years of experience in a Product or Systems Engineering role
Experience deploying Systems Engineering as a discipline within a complex global organization
Experience implementing Control Systems in Embedded Microcontroller environments Deep knowledge of System level algorithms, Classical and Modern Control Systems Theory, and statistical learning algorithms.
Experience managing multiple global teams.
Knowledge of building management systems and their applications.
Familiarity with architecture of full stack IoT solutions and ecosystems
Demonstrated leadership experience in coordinating, overseeing, and developing entry to senior level professionals
Proven track of leading teams to successful project delivery through proactive identification and resolution of obstacles
Ability to understand customer needs, negotiate complex issues and total value offerings
Demonstrated ability to develop strong working relationships with internal customers and taking ownership for meeting/exceeding customer needs
Track record of improving team performance and work practice through team coaching
Ability to consistently make timely decisions and balancing systematic analysis with decisiveness, even in the face of complexity
Ability to work with cross-functional team in Field Services, Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Product Management, Sourcing, and Finance
Effective communicator with the ability to convey subtle or complex messages clearly, as appropriate for the topic and audience