Sr. Manager, Software

Aquí es donde salvas y sostienes vidas

En Baxter, estamos profundamente conectados por nuestra misión. No importa tu rol en Baxter, tu trabajo tiene un impacto positivo en la gente alrededor del mundo. Sentirá un propósito en toda la organización, ya que sabemos que nuestro trabajo mejora los resultados para millones de pacientes.

Los productos y terapias de Baxter se encuentran en casi cada hospital del mundo, el clínicas y en los hogares. Por más de 85 años hemos sido pioneros en innovaciones médicas significativas que transforman el cuidado en salud.

Juntos creamos un lugar donde somos felices, exitosos y nos inspiramos mutuamente. Aquí es donde puedes hacer tu mejor trabajo.

Únete a nosotros en la intersección de salvar y sostener vidas-donde tu propósito acelera nuestra misión.

Your Role at Baxter

Baxter’s mission is to save and sustain lives, and as a Sr. Manager, your work contributes directly to achieving that mission and making a significant impact on others.  It is challenging work, but we help each other.  Our teams collaborate cross-functionally and work together to achieve the best outcome for patients and caregivers.
 

What you’ll be doing

As a Sr. Manager, you will be responsible for leading and facilitating the research and development of advanced medical device software saving lives across the whole world.  You will be guiding development over the whole device lifecycle, including architecture, design, development, and sustaining engineering for new and existing products.  The successful candidate will possess a strong technical background, experience with scoping and tasking software teams, utilization of Agile principles for project management, a vision for software development, and a passion for their work in transforming healthcare.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with cross functional teams to define software project scope, work with software teams to determine time estimations and creation of schedules, and facilitate the execution of the software work.
• Have software team members at various levels reporting to you, and you will be responsible for tasking and evaluating the skill and performance of those individuals.
• Lead project development utilizing Agile principles, ideally you will be a certified SCRUM master.
• Deal with personnel activities such as evaluation and development planning for your group of direct reports as well as sharing company information and plans to keep the team engaged and up to date.
• Understand the cross functional dependencies both in and out of the software team to promote communication and alignment to keep teams moving.
• Maintain, at minimum, a high-level understanding of technical issues and solutions so that you can communicate effectively with the software engineers on your team, as well as explain concepts cross functionally to groups that may or may not have technical background.
• Manage a hybrid team of remote and on-site software engineers, providing coaching, mentoring, career guidance, and growth opportunities.
• Protecting our products from risks to patient safety and ensuring compliance with applicable codes and standards.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience of progressing work in software development.
• Ideal candidate will have experience with complex Linux systems utilizing a graphical user interface, connected peripherals, modern security features, and connectivity.
• Experience with Android systems a plus.
• 3+ years’ experience of people leadership running new and sustaining software projects with cross functional inputs.
• 3+ years’ experience working in and/or leading an Agile development environment.
• Understanding of modern development practices like test-driven development, platforming, and design patterns; with a passion for improving software development practices.
• Excellent communication skills to share that vision with cross-functional stakeholders.
• “Serve first” leadership attitude with a track record of providing a positive and encouraging environment for engineering teams.
   

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change.

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