Engineering Manager Product Platform

C43 Cochlear Technology Centre Belgium (Belgium); Antwerpen; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Attractive remuneration package

Flexible extra-legal benefits

Extensive onboarding and training program

Work-life balance support

Growth opportunities

Résumé du poste

C43 Cochlear Technology Centre Belgium is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Product Platform team. In this role, you will lead a robust engineering team, ensuring the health and evolution of product platforms while aligning various functions.

Strong leadership, technical expertise, and experience in regulated environments are crucial. You will focus on enhancing quality, agility, and compliance while providing a stimulating work culture that supports life-work balance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading software teams.
• Solid technical background for engaging in architecture decisions.
• Strong communication skills across diverse functions.

Responsabilités

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Ensure alignment across software, verification, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Champion quality and compliance within engineering practices.

Connaissances

Leadership

Technical direction

Stakeholder alignment

Communication skills

Agile practices

Formation

Master’s or PhD in a relevant field

Description du poste

Position Overview / Purpose

We are looking for an Engineering Manager – Product Platform to play a key role in shaping and strengthening the foundation of the team. In this position, you will lead multiple engineering contributors, ensuring our product platform remain robust, compliant, and ready for the future. As an Engineering Manager within our Product Platform organisation, you will operate guiding and Tech Leads and Software Engineers while ensuring strong alignment across teams and functions. You will be responsible for the health, stability, and evolution of our product platforms, balancing people leadership, technical direction, and delivery excellence. Working within a regulated medical device environment, you will collaborate closely with engineering, verification, quality, security, and regulatory teams to deliver solutions that are both innovative and compliant. This is a role for a leader who combines technical credibility with strong people leadership, and who thrives in complex, cross-functional environments.

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on predictable delivery, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Lead, coach, and develop Tech Leads and engineers, strengthening leadership depth and succession readiness.
• Ensure clear priorities, structured leadership routines, and a psychologically safe, inclusive environment.
• Drive recruitment, onboarding, and long-term capability planning.
• Own technical direction & platform integrity.
• Define and evolve the technical roadmap for product platform components.
• Contribute to architecture and design governance alongside Tech Leads.
• Stay close to complex technical challenges and risk areas.
• Promote modern engineering practices including secure coding, CI/CD, and automation.
• Drive cross-team integration & delivery alignment.
• Ensure alignment across software, embedded, verification, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Manage dependencies, integration points, and release readiness milestones.
• Reduce architectural complexity and improve platform interfaces and boundaries.
• Lead through Tech Leads & strengthen engineering governance.
• Lead a group of Tech Leads across platform domains with clear ownership and accountability.
• Establish strong governance rhythms (design reviews, decision logs, roadmap alignment).
• Embed engineering discipline required in regulated environments (traceability, testability, reproducibility).
• Partner with stakeholders & provide clear leadership insight.
• Collaborate across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Delivery.
• Provide clear reporting on platform health, risks, and progress.
• Ensure visibility and prioritisation of technical debt and defects.
• Champion quality & compliance.
• Ensure adherence to medical device regulations and Cochlear’s QMS.
• Embed quality into daily engineering practices.
• Balance agile delivery with regulatory discipline.

What You Bring

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading software teams in complex environments.
• Strong experience leading through Tech Leads.
• Ability to build leadership depth and scalable team structures.
• Solid technical background with the ability to engage in architecture and design decisions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills across diverse functions.
• Excellent technical English.
• Master’s or PhD degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline (or equivalent).
• For candidates with degrees obtained outside Belgium, a formal recognition process may be required as part of the hiring journey.
• Support will be provided.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in medical device software or other regulated industries.
• Background in platform engineering, middleware, or shared components.
• Experience driving engineering maturity, CI/CD, and automation practices.
• Strong track record in improving quality, reliability, and engineering standards.

Benefits

• An attractive remuneration package and flexible extra-legal benefits.
• An extensive onboarding and training program.
• An enjoyable work environment with attention to life-work balance and homeworking.
• A stimulating environment with growth opportunities and opportunity to meet multi-disciplinary colleagues across the globe.

Equal Opportunities

Cochlear is committed to providing equal opportunities to avoid unlawful discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief or age. In line with our corporate ethics and statutory obligations we strive to ensure that the work environment is free of harassment and bullying and that everyone is treated with dignity and respect – this is an important aspect of ensuring equal opportunities in employment.