Director, Software Development Engineering

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

 

Title: Director, Software Development Engineering

Location: Austin, TX or Remote US

Jabil is seeking a Software Development Director who will directly contribute to the transformative growth within our Intelligent Infrastructure division by applying unique and innovative approaches to solving problems within a large-scale software production environment.  

You and your team will be responsible for contributing to the end-to-end architecture, definition, development and production deployment of production software applications and infrastructure spanning multiple customers and manufacturing regions. 

You will also be responsible for interfacing with internal engineering, manufacturing and quality teams and our end customers to ensure your software deliverables meet the rigorous standards of Jabil’s world-class manufacturing environments.
 

What can you expect to do?

• Attract, hire, onboard, lead, coach, mentor and inspire your team to deliver the best in class for our customers and stakeholders.

• Charged with ensuring the right level of execution discipline and engineering rigor is applied to all technical program deliverables – must lead by example.

• Empowered to make key decisions with respect to quality and features that may impact customer experience.

• Capable of influencing individuals, teams and executives to the level necessary to support delivery of programs within schedule, scope and budget boundaries.

• Able to understand how technical decisions impact the broader business, factories and customers and use these insights to lead the broader organization to optimized outcomes.

• Must be extremely detailed oriented while at the same time able to communicate complex issues in simple, actionable terms at all levels within the organization.

• Must possess a strong balance of technical skills, experience-based judgment and business acumen in all execution and decision-making activities.

• Strong ability to develop, grow and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships with peers, team members, executive leadership, customers and external partners at all times.

• Attract, hire, onboard, lead, coach, mentor and inspire your team to deliver the best in class for our customers and stakeholders.

• Charged with ensuring the right level of execution discipline and engineering rigor is applied to all technical program deliverables – must lead by example.

• Empowered to make key decisions with respect to quality and features that may impact customer experience.

• Capable of influencing individuals, teams and executives to the level necessary to support delivery of programs within schedule, scope and budget boundaries.

• Able to understand how technical decisions impact the broader business, factories and customers and use these insights to lead the broader organization to optimized outcomes.

• Must be extremely detailed oriented while at the same time able to communicate complex issues in simple, actionable terms at all levels within the organization.

• Must possess a strong balance of technical skills, experience-based judgment and business acumen in all execution and decision-making activities.

• Strong ability to develop, grow and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships with peers, team members, executive leadership, customers and external partners at all times.

• Establish clear measurable goals and objectives by which to determine individual and team results (i.e. operational metrics, results against project timelines).

• intain healthy interpersonal relationships with peers, team members, executive leadership, customers and external partners at all times.

• Establish clear measurable goals and objectives by which to determine individual and team results (i.e. operational metrics, results against project timelines).

What are other functional management responsibilities?

• Responsible for the operational and development support for the manufacturing test software deployed at production facilities.