Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data

Project / Program Management Senior

Job Summary:

Our client in Waterloo, ON is looking for a Project / Program Management Senior. This is a contract position.

What You Will Do:

The Program Manager will assist the team in meeting their delivery goals (coordinates with product owner(s) and other scrum masters, communicates delivery status as needed to management). The Program Manager supports and enforces the Scrum processes and other rules agreed on by the team.

• Facilitates scrum processes /meetings (Daily Standups, Planning, Splitting & Sizing, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Team Demos and Retrospectives).
• Communicates team commitments through Scrum of scrums.
• Will help drive technical coordination/meetings.
• Will work to resolve technical or resource impediments before the team is blocked. In some cases, the Scrum Master may coordinate with team resources to facilitate and follow-up to resolve blockers.
• Facilitates prep and readiness for Program Activities (PI Planning, System Demos, Retrospectives).
• Obtains ongoing progress and works to prevent and/or address team impediments.
• Ensures coordination/communication with other IVI software teams for technical or resource dependencies required for upcoming deliveries.
• Enforce DoD, best-in-class epics, stories, change requests, tasks, and defects authoring, and verify unit test tracking.
• Collaborate with software partners to design and integrate application software components.
• Manage software quality through code reviews, static/dynamic analysis, rigorous testing, and a persistent focus on automation.
• Mentor embedded software developers, provide performance feedback and assessments, and build a competency roadmap for career development.
• Create a highly collaborative, motivated team environment and partner with project managers, embedded system engineers, embedded software developers, and embedded software quality assurance engineers daily as well as with key UX design and test teams.

Basics:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7 years of software development and test experience.
• 5 years in a software development environment, leading large scale software projects or interfacing between technical and non technical teams.
• Onsite position. 

Preferred:

• 5 years of delivery production automotive or consumer electronic products to the market.
• Mastery of embedded test automation framework(s) and embedded software memory/performance profiling tool(s).
• Agile Scrum Master certification and practical project experience.
• Experience with embedded build systems including QNX system builder, buildroot, open embedded, or equivalent.
• Proficiency with revision control including Git, Subversion, or equivalent.
• Experience with the QNX operating system.
• Multi-site software project team experience.
• Automotive product development process and quality experience (i.e., A-SPICE, FMEA, etc.) or similar such as ISO, CMMI, TL9000, etc.

How You Will Be Successful:

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly
• Seek Technology and Business “First”
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Package
• Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
• Paid holidays and vacation time off
• Free training on all Altair products

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com

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At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.

Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.