Manager Engineering System Engineering

Career Area:

Engineering

Job Description:

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Manager Engineering System Engineering

Position Summary

Seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and enable a System Engineering team within the Autonomy and Automation Product Group. This role is accountable for guiding the team responsible for systemlevel design integration and technical governance across complex software products operating in both onpremises and cloud environments . The position ensures the team consistently delivers endtoend system coherence and effective integration with various software and hardware systems.

The role will lead the establishment and application of strong system engineering practices across the team including requirements decomposition interface definition crosscomponent design alignment and proactive technical risk management across programs. Through close partnership with product platform and delivery teams the role ensures the team translates product intent into executable and sustainable system designs that meet functional nonfunctional and operational requirements of the product.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead coach and develop a multidisciplinary system engineering team setting clear expectations and creating an environment that enables technical excellence accountability and continuous improvement.
• Guide the team in owning systemlevel design integration across complex software products operating in onpremises and cloud environments ensuring architectural integrity and endtoend system coherence.
• Ensure the team establishes and consistently applies system engineering practices including requirements decomposition interface definition crosscomponent design alignment and traceability across product lines and platform initiatives.
• Enable the team to define and validate system architectures that meet functional nonfunctional operational scalability reliability and cybersecurity requirements.
• Foster strong collaboration between system engineers product platform and delivery teams ensuring product intent is translated into executable system designs
• Hold the team accountable for proactively identifying communicating and mitigating systemlevel technical risks including dependency management integration readiness and legacy platform constraints.
• Ensure effective participation of the team in architecture and design reviews
• Ensure the team operates effectively within SAFe / Agile environments contributing systemengineering inputs architectural runway and integration considerations into program increment and sprint planning activities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 15 years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership including 7 years in system engineering roles within large global organizations.
• Proven system engineering leadership across system architecture integration and technical governance.
• Experience leading crossfunctional engineering teams and aligning product platform and delivery stakeholders.
• Background delivering largescale missioncritical systems in industrial domains such as telematics / IoT autonomy aerospace or other similar domains
• Strong experience with system integration dependency management across both onpremises and cloud environments.
• Experience in translat ing business needs into scalable system designs and manage systemlevel risks and tradeoffs.
• Solid understanding of system engineering fundamentals including requirements interfaces architecture alignment and nonfunctional requirements.
• Experience operating within Agile / SAFe environments ensuring system engineering inputs are reflected in planning.
• Clear effective technical communication and leadership skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.

Posting Dates:

April 9 2026 - April 22 2026

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Manager