Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com .

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Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website (http://www.wabteccorp.com/) to learn more!

Role Summary

The Manager - Software Engineering is a key leadership position responsible for organizational management, applying knowledge of management, software development methodologies, best practices, and proven processes to deliver a quality software product on budget, within planned schedule with quality and product compliance. This specific position will manage the Logistics and Analytics Railconnect - mCrew (mobile TMS ) and TMS web solutions product development teams located in Wabtec, Bangalore. Logistics and Analytics business has a growing set of rail road customers and maintains a distributed engineering team operating in a dynamic environment. Logistics and Analytics It is part of Wabtec Digital Electronics – Core Electronics and Data Electronics group.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate very strong Engineering Leadership and people management skills including solid communication and analytical skills with thorough understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation and resolution

• Provide guidance & coaching to the engineers in the team while working cross-functionally with global engineering teams, systems engineering, program managers, technology leaders and downstream operations and support teams to ensure on-time execution with on-target quality and cost of programs.

• Responsible for building a world class software development team.

• Deliver the application and services to validate and ensure the product meets overall budget, operational and quality standards

• Influence the decision making through active partnership with cross-functional teams, aligning with cross-functional team owners to understand the initiatives and implementations

• Management of vendor partnership as needed

• Responsible for managing the work deliverables of the platform/product/solution.

• Managing multiple agile team/s, influencing (potentially) more agile teams, fostering collaboration within local and global engineering groups to share designs & best practices

• Participate in Code review and Architrecture reviews as when needed

• Role expects 25-30% time helping the team in coding , architecture and solutioning.

• Leadership is demonstrated through team leadership/knowledge in a specific technical area.

• Coach, mentor and lead a diverse group of lean/agile software and user experience

• Places emphasis on not only attracting talent but also retaining and growing it

• Facilitate communication of technical and business information between organizations and within group.

• Instilling a rigorous software delivery process mindset and aligning to standard DevOps practices

• Resource management by working closely with program managers to assign, monitor and continually assess multiple projects simultaneously and make priority calls based on business objectives and associated risks

• Set goals and objectives for the team aligned with the business goals and objective and monitor them to ensure successful team deliverable.

• Define roles and responsibilities for direct reports, conduct performance appraisals and participate in salary planning, promote professional growth through timely performance feedback, coaching, mentoring and guiding.

• Ensure company compliance initiatives and training requirements are implemented within group.

• Act as the change agent for the team, continuously improving both tools and processes working with the engineering leadership team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in ECE / EEE /Computer Science / IT or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or equivalent with expertise in programming languages like Java, SOA,Struts,Hibernate , Spring boots -MicroServices, , react/Angular and related Cloud and UI technologies.

• 13-15 years of professional experience (including technical SKILLS) in the software development and engineering domain or software quality engineering

• Minimum 2 years of experience in an engineering leadership / management role with people management for medium to large projects and teams

• Experience in software management through at least 2+ complete product life-cycles

• Experience in delivering high quality software outputs with comprehensive understanding of Agile software development principles

• Proven experience working with global development teams and building close working relationships to drive and nurture positive relations with other make centers.

• Strong influencing skills, communication skills and demonstrated analytical skills

Desired expertise

Technical Expertise:

• Knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Java coding principles

• Hands-on experience in web services (REST, SOAP, WSDL etc.), using Apache Commons Suite & Maven, SQL Database such as Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL etc., NoSQL DB- mongo etc.

• Hands-on experience in utilizing Spring Framework (Core, MVC, Integration and Data)

• Experience with Containerization -Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience on developing/solutioning SaaS /Mobile software

• Experience with web development using HTML5, Java Script, jQuery, CSS.

• Experience with React , Angular framework

• Able to come up with solution architecture as when needed working with Architects

• Recognition of patterns and complexity in problems. Extraction, decomposition algorithms, and strategically plans how to execute programs by understanding how best to decompose to expose / protect against risk

• Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle principles

• Through working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and best practices

• Experience working with High Availability and Fault Tolerant architectures

• Understanding of full stack platform concepts and technologies

• Familiar with AGILE methodologies

• Understanding of real-time embedded systems

Business Acumen:

• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments

• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems

• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks

• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

Leadership:

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team

• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work under minimal supervision

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility

• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work

Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.