Position Summary The Engineering Manager of Software and Web Platforms is responsible for leading the software engineering and web development functions that support new product development, connected product platforms, digital tools, and customer-facing or internal applications. This role provides technical and organizational leadership across software architecture, application design, web technologies, system integration, verification and validation, deployment, release management, cybersecurity alignment, and ongoing lifecycle support.
This position manages and develops software engineers, web developers, and related technical contributors to ensure effective execution of business, customer, and product objectives. The role requires strong people-leadership, disciplined software development practices, sound technical judgment, and effective collaboration with embedded systems, hardware engineering, product management, IT, cybersecurity, quality, operations, and other business stakeholders.
This position will be filled at either our Mirabel, QC or Washington, MO location and is an onsite role; remote work is not available.Responsibilities The Software Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the improvement of existing software products, platforms, and applications, as well as the development of new software-enabled product derivatives, to meet defined customer, business, technical, cybersecurity, usability, quality, and compliance requirements. This role has the authority to assign and direct available software engineering resources, coordinate cross-functional support, recommend resource allocations, and participate in establishing project requirements, priorities, schedules, release plans, and technical objectives.
- Provide leadership and direction for assigned software engineering team(s), including embedded software, application software, web development, cloud-connected systems, software tools, and related technical functions.
- Manage, coach, and develop direct reports responsible for software development, web development, embedded software, software testing, software architecture, release management, and related engineering activities.
- Translate products, customer, business, regulatory, cybersecurity, data, usability, and technical requirements into software engineering plans, priorities, schedules, resource assignments, and deliverables.
- Lead software development activities for new products, product improvements, sustaining engineering, production support, field issue resolution, cost reduction, quality improvement, and digital product initiatives.
- Ensure software engineering projects meet established objectives for cost, schedule, technical performance, reliability, scalability, usability, maintainability, serviceability, cybersecurity, compliance, and customer satisfaction.
- Direct or delegate preparation and review of software engineering documentation, including design concepts, technical specifications, software architecture, interface specifications, cybersecurity documentation, test plans, validation plans, release plans, user-facing documentation, and engineering change documentation.
- Oversee software architecture, design, development, integration, verification, validation, deployment readiness, and lifecycle support for assigned products, platforms, applications, or systems.
- Ensure software designs comply with applicable Parker engineering standards, secure development practices, quality requirements, industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
- Lead software engineering planning activities, including project prioritization, resource allocation, sprint or milestone planning, backlog coordination, design reviews, release planning, project status reporting, and coordination with project management.
- Ensure effective change control for software releases, firmware releases where applicable, source code, configuration files, application documentation, technical records, release notes, and related engineering records.
- Promote disciplined software development practices, including requirements management, code review, version control, issue tracking, automated testing, release management, configuration management, and software quality assurance.
- Support cybersecurity requirements, secure coding practices, vulnerability management, access control, data protection, threat assessment, incident response support, and compliance activities for connected products and digital platforms.
- Coordinate with hardware engineering, firmware engineering, cybersecurity, information technology, product management, project management, manufacturing, quality, operations, suppliers, and other internal or external stakeholders.
- Support Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Lean, Operations, service teams, and customers in resolving software-related production, test, application, integration, reliability, connectivity, and field performance issues.
- Maintain active risk avoidance and risk reduction activities for new and existing software products, including risks related to cybersecurity, reliability, data integrity, compliance, usability, product safety, field performance, supply chain dependencies, and product liability.
- Monitor software technologies, development tools, competitive products, cybersecurity trends, regulatory developments, digital platforms, and industry practices relevant to assigned software products and platforms.
- Support software release management, deployment planning, version control, backward compatibility, defect resolution, patch management, and lifecycle support for assigned software products.
- Support product liability investigations, customer issue analysis, warranty investigations, cybersecurity investigations, and lawsuit defense activities when required.
- Participate in budgeting, staffing plans, salary planning, performance reviews, software tool planning, capital planning, cloud or infrastructure planning, laboratory planning, and test environment planning.
- Develop, implement, and maintain software engineering policies, procedures, standards, workflows, coding guidelines, development practices, and best practices as required.
- Support Parker business initiatives, including digital transformation, connected products, automation, e-commerce, data-driven services, continuous improvement, cost reduction, quality improvement, and risk reduction programs.
- Identify and submit cost reduction, cost avoidance, productivity improvement, quality improvement, software reliability improvement, cybersecurity improvement, or risk reduction actions.
- Perform other duties as responsibilities required.
