Engineering Manager - Cluj

Hewlett-Packard Company

08-05-2008 | EXPIRA LA 07-06-2008

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RESPONSABILITATI

Description:

This role is responsible for implementing and managing best practice process and methodology across all project teams. This role requires the ability to: proactively assess process and methodology effectiveness; drive process innovations, and maintain a highly motivating work environment. It also requires coordinating and prioritizing resource across projects teams to ensure that resources are effectively utilized.

Main areas of responsibility include:

Project Team Leadership:
- Manage the day-to-day issues for our five project teams (NAS, SAS, ASAS, PAS, and Technical Support)
- Ensure the teams are delivering high quality software and world-class customer support
- Encourage and maintain open communication and team work inside teams
- Create a motivating and exciting engineering environment

Inter-Team Leadership:
- Serve as main liaison between Romania R&D center and the US engineering teams
- Maintain strong communication with your counterparts in the US regarding the risks, deliverables, and timelines
- Encourage and maintain open communication across US and RO teams
- Report weekly statuses to the counterparts in US

Operations:
- Recruit and hire only the best and brightest engineers
- Help our US counterparts understand the local recruiting context (skill sets, experience, and availability of resources)
- Establish and manage a best practice training process for new hires to guarantee the quickest path to productivity
- Define and manage ongoing training processes for the entire engineering team
- Provide ongoing feedback to team members which maximizes their professional growth and performance
- Assisting the engineers in achieving their professional objectives
- Managing relationships with the local and country-wide universities


CERINTE

Successful candidates will have:

- Experience developing and implementing best practice process and methodology for a R&D organization
- Strong leadership qualities, including adaptability, creativity, high energy, ability to work and provide leadership in a team environment
- Proven ability to coordinate with others while driving organizational change
- Strong project management skills with a proven track record of successful product delivery
- Proven leader with experience building and energizing strong engineering teams
- Strong analytical, writing, and communication skills
- Strong work ethic and ability to multi-task while maintaining a high attention to detail
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years experience in a managers role (engineering management experience in an enterprise software company is highly desirable)
- System administration, network administration or operations management experience is preferred
- Excellent English oral and written communication skills


DESCRIEREA FIRMEI

HP Software is the 6th largest software house in the world, and growing quickly. The market we are building products for in Cluj-Napoca, data center automation, is the fastest growing segment within the enterprise software space. Our products have market leading positions in server, network, storage, and client automation. Our engineers are building critical components for these products, and receive substantial training to support their success. The professional growth opportunities within HP Software are truly boundless.

Become a part of this exciting team by emailing your CV to iulia.druta@hp.com.