• Lead, manage, and develop a software organization consisting of two teams that report in matrix fashion into LS’s Oakland teams. One team supports embedded software; another supports cloud applications and services.
• Work closely with team leads in Pen Software and Cloud Software to maximize alignment, understanding and execution between software development sites.
• Collaborate with Oakland team to understand product strategy and establish and drive effective execution plans, ensuring effective delivery from Vietnam team.
• Work closely with SW team in Oakland to contribute to software architecture and system designs and ensure development in Vietnam is consistent with that vision.
• Work closely with SQA in Vietnam and Oakland to ensure the development of effective test plans and test cases for the work developed within your team.
• Hands on contributions are expected from this role, including some combination of design, coding, code reviews and unit testing of some portion of the system.
• Communicate effectively across geographic, functional and technical boundaries.

 

Requirements:

 

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3+ years of leading high caliber software teams
• 10+ years of technical experience in software development
• Strong technical experience in a subset of scalable web services, C-based embedded software on ARM platforms, or J2ME development for mobile devices
• Excellent engineering design and problem solving skills; able to lead by example and mentor other engineers in both software and quality assurance
• Experience through the full software development lifecycle –– must have shipped several products; ideally has worked within Agile software teams
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and software development tools (source control, defect tracking systems)
• Must have a solid understanding of modern automated software validation techniques as it applies to automation of web services and systems
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong technical capacity and ability to learn
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Deep understanding of J2EE technology; experience with XML-RPC/SOAP/REST
• Familiarity with open source software frameworks & web automation tools such as Spring, Hibernate, Apache, Maven, Ant, Eclipse, Selenium, JUnit, JMeter, Quick Test Pro, Test Complete or equivalent
• Experience with automation script programming; familiarity with at least one major programming/scripting language other than JavaScript (e.g., Python / Java / Perl)
• Experience with HTML, SQL, CSS, Apache, SOAP, XML RPC, AJAX , UNIX