Senior Software Engineering Manager - Secure Computing Solutions

Senior Software Engineering Manager - Secure Computing Solutions

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join the Secure Computing Solutions team located in Pleasanton, CA.  This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) business organization.  The selected candidate will be required to work 100% onsite in Pleasanton with a travel requirement of approximately 10%. 
 

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers developing security solutions (Software Tools, BSPs, Firmware, etc.) around our custom SoC’s and embedded systems for defense, commercial and aerospace applications. The ideal candidate will excel in both the engineering technical acumen/excellence required for this role while also being an engaging and motivating people leader. 

Position Responsibilities:  

• Prioritizing the development and career growth of your employees and team 

• Inspiring and empowering your team through collaboration, communication, and caring 

• Building and nurturing an inclusive culture by seeking different perspectives, speaking up, and actively listening to teammates and stakeholders 

• Ensuring an emotionally safe work environment where employees can freely and proactively raise safety, quality and schedule concerns as soon as they are known 

• Manages the software engineering team responsible for development through production of leading-edge, secure board level and avionics box level software solutions 

• Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures and sets goals 

• Acquires resources for projects and processes, provides technical management of suppliers and leads process improvements 

• Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports 

• Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes 

• Recruit, hire, mentor, and manage team, fostering their career growth and build a strong team culture based on inclusion, innovation and respect 

• Demonstrate a commitment to the mission and motivate the team to achieve common objectives through effective teamwork 

• Drive innovation by looking beyond current practices and utilizing creative thinking to discover new opportunities and solutions 

• Ability to think critically, problem solve and comfortable working through ambiguity 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to inform and implement the company’s technology strategy, with a special focus on execution, quality and timely delivery 

• Enable communication of relevant software status, risks, issues, recognition and other software related topics across program/functional leadership and to higher-level engineering and business leaders as needed. 

• Ensure that software estimating and Earned Value Management (EVM) best practices are utilized which include any programmatic planning and baselining activities as well as assessing proposals for accuracy and executability and proper identification and quantification of related risks. 

• Collaborate with and contribute to the success of software efforts across the division as well as more broadly into BDS and Enterprise software engagement. 

• Accountable to the BDS Air Dominance Software Leader as their assigned manager as well as secondarily to the Applied Solutions Integrated Product Team Leader. 
   

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience): 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in leading or managing a software engineering organization and software activities 

• Minimum 5 years of experience working with geographically dispersed value stream stakeholders and external customers to resolve complex issues 

• Minimum 5 years of experience developing/implementing strategic plans, delivering on commitments and results 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software development life cycles, configuration management and agile software engineering best practices 

• Experience influencing stakeholders across multiple organizations to define and drive common objectives 

• Experience with schedule and budget management, integration of all logistics elements, customer communication, as well as understanding of execution of program planning to ensure cost, schedule and technical baseline requirements are met 

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineeri