Associate Engineering Manager

Position Summary

A rewarding career at AssaAbloy beckons you! We’re Looking for Associate Engineering Manager to join our Cloud and Mobile Teams Engineering Centre in Chennai, India. You are accountable for delivering quality product. We are a leading company in the trusted source for innovative products, solutions and services that help millions of customers around the globe create, manage, and use secure identities. 

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Overview

As part of these responsibilities, the person will work with the Cloud and Mobile Development Teams, Technical Architects, enable automation framework for the applications in Chennai.

Responsibilities:

• Builds highly talented, top-performing, efficient, autonomous engineering teams.
• Contributes to larger engineering organizational initiatives and the future direction of the product.
• Facilitates core scrum ceremonies.
• Drives tactical team-level improvement for Scrum processes.
• Coordinates with the product management team to drive alignment on sprint priorities.
• Guide Product Owner in developing, maintaining, and grooming Product Backlog.
• Help resolve conflict(s)within the team and across dependent teams, if any.
• Able to identify, coach and mentor team members to become servant leaders of Agile programs and self-directed teams.
• Set Performance goals/objectives by working along with the team members.
• Evaluating the performance review of the team members.
• Providing input, guidance, and corrective actions to the team members.
• Plan training and other skills development for the team.
• Be the first level of escalation point for any delivery-related issues across programs that he/she is assigned.

Requirements:

• Experience in at least any one of the Cloud platforms (AWS, google, Azure)
• Ability to manage technical projects from conception to completion.
• Works on issues where analysis of situation or data requires review of relevant factors
•  Prepares complete project documents. 
• Designs and conducts experiments, and analyzes and interprets data
• Formulates and solves problems
• Provides mentoring to more junior staff
• Should have experience with release coordination & project administration tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal communication and project management skills are a must.
• Positive Mindset and willingness to drive the change.

Preferred Qualities:

• An undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required, with a graduate degree preferred.
• 10+ years of overall experience in the Application/Solution Development domain
• 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Master / Sr. Tech Lead
• Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Experience with Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Work Requirements

• For travel and fieldwork including international travel, therefore the candidate must possess or can acquire a valid passport.

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access. 

As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.