Job Description
What your day will look like
- Implement the vision and strategy for Engineering Excellence
- Represent Ubuntu and Canonical in front of customers, partners and consortia to support our demonstration of excellence
- Coordinate, guide and positively influence Canonical engineering ways of working
- Develop skills through coaching, feedback and hands-on technical leadership
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Work from home with international travel twice a year, up to two weeks at a time, for company events
What we are looking for in you
- You have a strong experience in engineering and process management in an agile environment
- You love developing and growing people and teams and have a track record of doing it
- You have led successful compliance and certification efforts, understand well the process and stakeholders management required
- You have knowledge or certification addressing industry standards such as ISO IEC 9001, 25010 and 15504 / SPICE
- You worked on successful open source projects known for their demonstrated engineering processes
- Background as a software developer
- Experience in establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills