Associate Embedded Software Delivery Manager

Cochlear Malaysia SDN BHD. (Malaysia); Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cochlear is seeking an Associate Embedded Software Delivery Manager to drive delivery across complex Embedded Software teams. You will own planning, execution, risks, dependencies and delivery commitments, working with Engineering Managers, Platform Architects, Program Managers and Systems Engineering to ensure alignment to outcomes.

You will identify delivery challenges, bring the right people together, and push issues through to resolution.

Qualifications

• Experience owning software or engineering delivery outcomes.
• Experience leading engineering teams in complex environments.
• Strong planning capability across priorities, capacity, risks and delivery commitments.
• Evidence of proactively identifying delivery challenges and driving resolution.
• Ability to operate in evolving priorities with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own squad-level delivery planning, execution and commitments.
• Translate platform priorities into realistic plans based on capacity and constraints.
• Maintain visibility of milestones, forecasts and commitments and take action if off track.
• Remove blockers, drive decisions and hold teams accountable for outcomes.
• Identify risks and impediments and develop practical mitigation plans.
• Balance scope, quality, technical debt, capacity and delivery commitments.

Skills

Delivery ownership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Planning and scheduling

Job description

Cochlear's mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a world full of sound. We aim to transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss and innovate to connect people with future technologies. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people's lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to experience a lifetime of hearing.

About the role

The Associate Embedded Software Delivery Manager drives successful delivery across complex Embedded Software teams, taking ownership for planning, execution, risks, dependencies and delivery commitments.

You will work closely with Engineering Managers, Platform Architects, Program Managers, Systems Engineering and development teams to create clarity, maintain momentum and ensure teams remain aligned to agreed outcomes.

This role is about more than coordinating Agile processes. You will actively identify delivery challenges, bring the right people together, challenge assumptions, facilitate decisions and drive issues through to resolution.

You do not need to be an embedded software engineer. You will, however, need the technical curiosity and credibility to understand complex engineering challenges, ask the right questions and confidently work with experienced engineering stakeholders.

You will thrive in this role if you enjoy taking ownership, bringing structure to ambiguity and helping technical teams convert complex plans into dependable delivery outcomes.

What you’ll do

Delivery ownership and execution

• Own and drive squad-level delivery planning, execution and delivery commitments.
• Translate platform priorities into realistic plans based on capacity, dependencies and engineering constraints.
• Maintain visibility of milestones, forecasts and commitments, and take action when delivery moves off track.
• Create momentum by removing blockers, driving decisions and holding yourself and others accountable for agreed outcomes.

Risk, dependencies and problem solving

• Identify risks, dependencies and impediments before they affect delivery.
• Work across teams to develop practical mitigation and recovery plans.
• Balance scope, quality, technical debt, capacity, risk and delivery commitments.
• Escalate appropriately while remaining accountable for driving issues through to resolution.
• Support release readiness and quality-focused decisions in a highly regulated engineering environment.

Stakeholder management and influence

• Build trusted relationships across Engineering, Architecture, Systems Engineering, Program and Product teams.
• Bring stakeholders together when priorities, dependencies or expectations conflict.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and facilitate difficult delivery conversations.
• Communicate progress, risk, trade-offs and delivery impacts clearly and proactively.
• Influence outcomes without relying on formal authority and adapt communication for technical and senior audiences.

Planning and delivery discipline

• Drive sprint, backlog, release and longer-range planning activities.
• Ensure priorities are translated into achievable plans based on team capacity and dependencies.
• Use delivery metrics and evidence to identify emerging issues and improve predictability.
• Maintain appropriate governance and visibility across milestones and commitments.
• Help teams continuously improve the way they plan, execute and deliver.

Working through complexity and ambiguity

• Create clarity when priorities, responsibilities or requirements are still evolving.
• Bring structure to complex technical environments without waiting for perfect information.
• Facilitate decisions and maintain momentum through uncertainty.
• Adapt plans as new technical, regulatory or business information emerges.

About you

You combine delivery ownership, technical curiosity and strong interpersonal capability. You take responsibility when delivery becomes difficult, create momentum rather than waiting for direction, and are comfortable working with experienced engineers and senior stakeholders.

You do not need to have all the technical answers, but you should be confident asking the right questions and ensuring issues are understood, owned and resolved.

You will bring

Demonstrated experience owning software or engineering delivery outcomes, not simply coordinating delivery activities.

Experience working with engineering teams in technically complex environments.

Strong planning capability across priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks and delivery commitments.

Evidence of proactively identifying delivery challenges and driving them through to resolution.

Ability to operate effectively where priorities or responsibilit