Software Engineering Manager

Overview: The Waters Software team is seeking a Software Engineering Manager.
The Waters Software team is growing! We are growing both our SaaS and on-prem engineering teams and are seeking talent professionals to come and join the team!

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  Do you want to join a team that contributes to the development of new pharmaceuticals and is contributing to the fight against Covid-19?
• Would you like to help grow our engineering team through hiring and training?
• How about being part of our global Software group as we accelerate our cloud engineering?

If your answer is yes, read on!
About the role:The Software Engineering Manager is a leadership position with the skills and experience to lead a software development team working on both Cloud and on-prem products.
Who are we seeking to attract?We are seeking dynamic leaders and diverse, talented individuals to join our team.
What can we offer you?Competive salary and pension, health and dental packages, hybrid remote and flexible working options, competitive holidays and much more!Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership of their Engineering Teams reporting into their organizational unit.
• Work with Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure their teams have the right resources and skill sets to deliver against the product roadmaps.
• Help to resolve team specific impediments.
• Ensure that the Informatics Engineering Team are given the appropriate time to focus on learning, development and improvement initiatives as well as project work.
• Recruit top grade engineering team members to build a strong, self-sufficient and integrated software organisation working within the overall departments hiring direction.
• Encourage and develop new and existing Engineering Team members by mentoring and coaching.
• Provide regular reviews including Performance, objectives and development with direct reports. Gather feedback from team members to ensure a fair and balanced review for each employee.
• Ensure employees are provided with training required for their job and a training plan is provided where necessary.
• Support and nurture a culture of innovation within their team and collaborate with the global Informatics engineering team.
• Create, support and nurture a culture of Continuous Improvement in software engineering.
• Provide input to overall Engineering department budget needs and manage spending in according with approved budget.
• Communicate regularly with other Engineering Managers and stakeholders to ensure alignment with the other managers/sites.
• Enable relationships for the Engineering Team with other cross department functions and other business units.
• Mentor and motivate teams with the goal of enabling them to solve their own problems and grow technically/professionally.
• Identify appropriate organizational improvements to support improved effectiveness.

Qualifications:Experience:

• 8+ years experience in an area of software engineering.
• 2+ years experience of managing and leading teams is highly desired.

Competencies:

• Ability to solve complex problems
• Ability to work with no direct supervision.
• Ability to convert strategy into deliverables for the team.
• Excellent communication and decision making skills

Company Description: Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Waters Wilmslow:

People create the Waters difference. By engaging with our talented and diverse workforce we continuously evolve, develop and enhance our products. Being the world’s leading speciality measurement company, we believe in delivering innovative technology and system solutions to our valued customers to enable their success. At Wilmslow, our focus is on the development and delivery of mass spectrometry systems and software in a collaborative and dynamic team environment.

Our mass spectrometers deliver benefit to customers in many industries and make a meaningful impact to our lives through examples such as

• Neo-natal screening to keep babies healthy
• Ensuring consistent, reliable safety in our global food and water supply
• Developing new medicinal therapies to advance human health
• Ensuring participants in the world’s sporting events compete fairly