Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.
We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!
Job Description
In the Software & Control (SWC) campus in Katowice, we are looking for an accomplished Software Development Manager to join our software engineering team. You will lead a multi-functional group of 40+ people, including several agile teams, architects and first line managers responsible for the development of our industry-leading design software IDE. Duties will be performed in a global environment collaborating with teams and leaders in Asia, Europe and the United States. You will report to the Director/Site Leader and have responsibility for and influence on both local and global operations of the product line.
Your Responsibilities:- Responsible for the continued development and motivation of a highly productive software development group that consistently delivers exceptional product solutions to our customers that are robust, stable, extensible and cost-effective.
- Responsible for agile engineering processes, requirements definition, system design, implementation, verification, testing, and release, ensuring the release's success and customer satisfaction.
- Participate in the creation and execution of product development and delivery strategies – a strategic and visionary "leader" in the software discipline.
- Recruit, develop, and review department personnel, ensuring succession plans are in place for key personnel. Develop and coach leaders, providing opportunities for increased responsibility. Experience building a team and hiring successfully are critical.
- Establish and maintain budgets, product development plans, schedules and procedures required to accomplish department and business objectives.
- Work with team members and peer managers to develop, implement and continuously improve development processes, ensuring quality products are delivered in a timely, predictable manner – "make Rockwell Automation better".
- Expected to drive the knowledge and application of Generative AI tools, identify architecture simplification, and incubate technical innovation within the team to enhance business innovation, productivity, and engineering efficiency.
- Handle critical problems, decisions, and escalations and mitigate risks.
- Collaborate globally with other key SWC programs to share information and promote common software development practices and strategies.
- Ensure product development activities comply with corporate and business-level processes and global standards, including global security compliance standards.
- Work with leadership to understand and implement the vision of a performance-driven and collaborative workplace. Drive the inclusive and high-performance culture of the team to develop a world-class engineering organization.
- Create an environment that promotes new ideas and effectiveness, fostered by intense collaboration in a hybrid workplace arrangement.
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Development, IT or a similar technical discipline.
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of experience in product development.
- Minimum of 6 years of technical and people leadership experience, including leading managers and individual contributors.
- Excellent track record of developing early career talent into technical and people leaders and upskilling team members to support future technologies and investments.
- Deep technical understanding of software development process, tools and techniques used in mature, complex and reliable solutions.
- Effective hands-on management and able to work across teams effectively.
- Expertise with enterprise class products and solutions.
- Practical experience leading development of solutions requiring integration of multiple software and hardware components.
- Legal authorization to work in Poland is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
- Experience with Agile / Scrum methodologies, ideally in a Scaled Agile Framework.
- Experience in building products and solutions for industrial automation, manufacturing systems or similar applications including background with large-scale system development projects.
- Experience working with global team members on multi-campus product development.
Our benefits package includes …
- Comprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium membership to Calm
- Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees
- Company volunteer and donation matching program – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Personalized wellbeing programs through our OnTrack program
- On-demand digital course library for professional development
... and other local benefits!
At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.
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This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.
Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.
