Senior Director Software Reliability & Quality

MissionDeliver great quality outcome to our customers, bringing technical expertise and continuously challenging on design practices to get robust, reliable and easy to use software/firmware and systems. Develop and promote methods & tools to deliver the best customer experience in a globally consistent manner. Play a strategic role in defining what SW Reliability and Quality mean for Schneider Electric

Organization structure

This position reports to the VP, Software Quality. There are no direct reports.

Main responsibilities

• In collaboration with a network of experts including but not limited to Marketing, Product/Offer Management, R&D Leadership, Quality leaders, & Customer Care, Strengthen the SW Reliability and Quality for Schneider Electric globally.
• Develop and train SW reliability best practices. Integrate these best practices into the SW Quality Fundamentals as well as define the boundary between HW and SW reliability. 
• Lead the efforts for creating training material for SW Reliability.
• Get continuously up to date on quality practices with internal and external benchmark of best-in-class software development companies.
• Bring consistency and coaching in SW quality methods and tools for project development, develop expertise in all functions involved on SW quality.
• Create communication plans for how SW quality will be shared with the community and larger organization.
• Drive change with pilot projects from across all Divisions/LoBs within Schneider Electric.
• Promote the implementation, across all R&D Schneider entities, worldwide, on the SW Quality Fundamentals.
• Coach and develop expertise in R&D and quality teams on SW Quality Best Practices.
• Develop the actionable metrics to permanently evaluate and improve the quality and robustness level of the product/offers (risk evaluation and management, quality level, non-regression, bug management, maintainability, usability, arrival rate …).
• Propose a “Customer promise dashboard” to report “maturity” of the product/offer versus customer expectations, to enable safe project decisions.
• Close the loop between KPI’s from the field and improvements to be monitored during product/offer creation process.
• Drive the teams to use data as the foundation, creating dashboards from metrics to report progress and learnings, enabling project decisions.
• Train and mentor SW Quality Leaders.

Personal Competencies

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex systems and identify areas for improvement.
• Having a customer-centric mindset and focusing on delivering value to end-users in a pragmatic way.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

SOFT SKILLS

• Ability to manage a network, leading operational transformations, across a worldwide organization.
• Strong ability to work in fast-paced environment and ability to multitask with ease is essential to the success of this position.
• Strong communication with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and to promote effective teamwork.
• Ability to inspire and motivate, strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Passionate of continuous learning and improvement, seeking opportunities to expand his/her knowledge and skills.
• Curious, open minded, persistent, rigorous, and pragmatic.

Qualifications and experiences

• Education in computer science, software engineering or equivalent.
• 15 years’ experience in software/firmware development and software quality.
• Experience managing teams from 10-50 people.
• Collaborate with Executive Leaders, Quality Leaders and other stakeholders across the organization to ensure the Division's offers are at the highest level for SW Quality.
• Experience with complex Software Systems (communication networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud applications, Mobile applications, Desktop applications, etc.).
• Excellent knowledge of software development methodologies, software architecture, peer reviews, testing techniques, qualimetry (code analysis), and quality assurance processes.
• Experience leading transformations in large organizations and managing change in complex SW/FW Systems.
• Experience implementing SW and SW quality best practices.

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Why us?

Schneider Electric is leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation. Our technologies enable the world to use energy in a safe, efficient and sustainable manner. We strive to promote a global economy that is both ecologically viable and highly productive.

€25.7bn global revenue

137 000 employees in 100 countries

45% of revenue from IoT

5% of revenue devoted for R&D

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled

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