Fortive Corporation Hiring for Manager, Software Engineering at Bangalore, India Full Time

The Engineering and Product Development team at Industrial Scientific is inviting applications for Manager, Software Engineering to develop the next generation IoT and cloud solutions for the Industrial Scientific portfolio of products and services! We are an industry leader in the field of industrial safety with a range of award-winning Internet of Things / Connected products and recurring revenue business models. For example, our iNet Now Live Monitoring software and Radius BZ1 Area Monitor recently won platinum awards in the Occupational Health and Safety Industrial Hygiene Awards. As we innovate the future in this space, we are emphasizing end-to-end solutions that drive experience, connectivity, and data analytics. Our current iNet platform is a unique, industry leading platform that offers cloud-first safety solutions for device management, live monitoring, and analytics with hundreds of thousands of connected devices!

This role is responsible for the leadership, strategic technology direction, and development of the company’s software stack development groups. The position will help establish, and lead global teams with the right balance of autonomy and coordination. This position will help drive ongoing development and growth of the team – both from a capabilities and cultural perspective. The position is responsible for ensuring that the engineering functions are innovative from both a technical and process perspective.

The Manager, Software Engineering would enjoy the challenge of realizing scalable software solutions in industrial settings that lead to improvement in safety outcomes. This individual will bring strong communication, technical drive, persistence, and team building skills necessary to maintain and enhance software engineering development excellence within the organization. We are looking for someone who will be comfortable leading and guiding multi-disciplinary teams in creating products and services. The role will work with, and report to, the Director of Engineering, India Design Center. This individual would be joining a team and organization that embraces open collaboration and teamwork, undertakes agile development, provides opportunities for learning and growth – all the while focused on the mission of eliminating death on the job by 2050.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor our software engineering team to achieve strong organizational performance

• Grow and manage individual talent, and advance our technology strategy.

• Lead software development, testing, and Agile Scrum functions to build a world class engineering team that develops and delivers high quality industry leading safety software solutions in a timely fashion

• Guide team in developing and implementing an architectural strategy and technical roadmap

• Ensure platform performance, scalability, and resilience to support the growth of our business

• Partner closely with multi-functional teams including product management, sales, customer success regarding development schedules

• Implement engineering standard processes to optimize development cycles as well as increase predictability and product quality.

• Establish and lead global development centers

• Oversee key hiring and talent development programs

• Lead team in evaluating new technologies and make recommendations on inclusion into development methodologies, product architecture, and cloud solutions.

• Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and customer focus and a lively work environment

• Continuously elevate the quality and caliber of our R&D organization.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Engineering, Computer Science, mathematics, or another engineering-related field

• 12 years+ experience in relevant software product/solution development experience covering full-stack software technologies

• 3 years + proven experience as a technical leader or manager, responsible for designing or building out solutions using connected, IoT and cloud technologies

• Deep understanding of modern software stack and experience migrating monolithic product/solution environments to a more modern stack

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to articulately communicate with other engineers and management

• 3+ years experience in full Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Scrum development methodology

• 3+ years experience leading Agile Scrum development teams

• Experience in working with and leading global development teams and working with global development partners

  Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in Engineering or Computer Science, mathematics, or another related engineering field

• Experience with industrial control and/or safety technologies

• Demonstrated experience leading software development, deployment and integration of applications for at least one major public cloud provider-Azure, AWS, or GCP or Rackspace- and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Conversant level of architecture knowledge and breadth that includes familiarity with multi-threaded, multi-tiered, service oriented, event-based, micro-service, and distributed architectures

• Experience in SAFe Agile work environments is a strong plus.

• Experience with cloud-based business models focused on SaaS or PaaS applications

• Experience collaborating with a dispersed team as well as with other company functional teams (i.e. product, marketing, sales, finance, research and development)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company comprised of Professional Instrumentation and Industrial Technologies businesses that are recognized leaders in attractive markets. With 2017 revenues of $6.7 billion, Fortive’s well-known brands hold leading positions in field instrumentation, transportation, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution.

Fortive is headquartered in Everett, Washington and employs a team of more than 26,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service and administrative employees in more than 50 countries around the world. Our team grows by tackling challenges that accelerate progress and further their careers. With a culture rooted in continuous improvement, the core of our company’s operating model is the Fortive Business System. For more information please visit: www.fortive.com.The people at Industrial Scientific are committed to ending death on the job by the year 2050, and we need more help. We hire smart, motivated people, give them world-class tools in a supportive environment, and we let them do their job. Our team is highly engaged, creates quality solutions and delivers outstanding customer service. Our leaders understand the critical elements of breakthrough performance: bringing out the best in people; creating a climate of trust, openness and high performance; fostering candor; and treating people fairly and with dignity.