Manager-Software Development

Mettler-Toledo, Inc.; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Family Mediclaim benefits

Training opportunities

Career path exploration

Quarterly and Annual awards

Job summary

Mettler-Toledo, Inc. is looking for an experienced manager to lead their software program development in Coimbatore. This role requires strong leadership skills and a proven track record in project management, delivering quality outcomes while managing team dynamics.

With a hybrid working model offered, candidates should have at least 10 years of experience in development and testing, including experience in agile methodologies. The position emphasizes proactive communication and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in development or testing including test automation.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• Proactive and energetic approach with strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the project portfolio and stakeholder needs.
• Lead a team of engineers to achieve quality and schedule commitments.
• Measure and improve project performance metrics.

Skills

Leadership skills

Project management

Agile methodologies

Software development

Communication

Education

Bachelor's / Master’s degree in computer science / Electronics

Tools

GitHub

DevOps

Job description

Our Opening and Your Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholders’ needs and priorities for software program development and delivery.
• Prioritize work across projects and manage the project portfolio.
• Apply entrepreneurial thinking and be the single point of contact for the project portfolio.
• Create sense of ownership, quality in the team and enable program deliveries.
• Achieve cost, time and quality goals defined for project portfolio.
• Be accountable for managing all aspects of risk, issues, and dependencies in the portfolio.
• Measure and improve project(s) performance indicators using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Demonstrate strong people management and leadership skills.
• Build and manage a team of high-performing engineers.
• Ensure schedule and quality commitments are met.
• Attract, retain, and build top-notch engineering, technical and functional talent.
• Lead and mentor team through complex customer requirement implementations.
• Enable continuous learning and improvement by practicing Lean management and agile principles.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, communication and coaching skills.
• Work closely with stakeholders including Business / Product Owners, Development, Shared and Management teams.
• Emphasize engineering best practices, delivering value, and data driven decision making.
• Focus on delivering business value from the overall program.
• Keep yourself and the team updated with latest industry developments.

What You Need to Succeed

• Bachelor's / master’s degree in computer science / Electronics or related field.
• Atleast 10 years of experience in development or testing including test automation and 2+ years of recent experience in project management roles
• 5+ years of experience in Engineering or Software Development Manager role
• 5+ years of people management experience – including team set up and development, motivation and inspiration, coaching and mentoring, conflict and performance management,
• Proactive and Energetic approach, great interpersonal communication skills.Is able to navigate the team through change.
• Experience in working with Global / distributed team.
• Close working experience with business teams / customers for at least 5 years
• Working experience in desktop and web-based application development and testing
• Good understanding about requirements management process and tools
• Good understanding about Architecture and design of Software products
• Good understanding about DevOps, CI/CD pipeline
• Good understanding of application security.
• Experience working with code repositories such as GitHub / TFS-GIT
• Strong exposure to Development life cycle and agile / scaled agile methodologies
• Working experience in Scrum, Scaled Agile, Rapid prototyping, Iterative development.
• Experience in PI Planning and participation
• Experience in Iteration / Sprint planning
• Good understanding about Risk and dependency management.
• Able to demonstrate metrics-based management approaches undertaken in past work experience.
• Clear communication of project status along with metrics to stakeholders in a presentable way.

Nice to Have

• Working experience in/with international companies for at least 5 years
• Strong domain knowledge in Laboratory software and instruments
• Knowledge in regulatory areas like the GMP, CFR21P11, ISO270001 and ISO9001.
• Knowledge of instrument service workflows and embedded development.
• Knowledge of Static application security testing (SAST).
• Knowledge of Software composition analysis (SCA)
• Cloud exposure or work experience (Azure/AWS/Google).

Our Offer to You

• Hybrid working model.
• Family Mediclaim benefits including parents & Term life insurance Cover.
• Wide portfolio of training opportunities including but not limited to Conferences, Workshops, Education reimbursement & Online learning.
• A wide range of Career Path to explore based on Individual strengths and aspirations.
• Quarterly and Annual awards for outstanding individuals and Quality of Life Improvement Program

Equal Opportunity Employment

We promote equal opportunity worldwide and value diversity in our teams in terms of business background, area of expertise, gender and ethnicity. For more information on our commitment to Sustainability, Diversity and Equal Opportunity please visit us here.