Engineering Manager

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The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
You have an analytical mind and a passion for the craft of software engineering, and you love solving problems and learning new things. Technologies come and go, but that excites you because of the endless possibilities it creates. You are looking for an opportunity to work for a company whose software is utilized by every Fortune 500 company and significantly impacts every industry. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers’ business objectives.
VMware Horizon enables a digital workspace with the efficient delivery of virtual desktops and applications that equips workers anywhere, anytime, and on any device. With deep integration into the VMware technology ecosystem, the platform offers an agile cloud-ready foundation, modern best-in-class management, and end to end security that empowers today’s Anywhere Workspace.
What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?
Our goal is to make ‘VMware Horizon’ enable IT effectiveness at scale, and speed and enable customers to successfully implement hybrid work. We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a combined industry experience of at least 14 years, including a minimum of 4 years of technical leadership experience managing a team of software engineers. The candidate should have a strong background in architecting and designing enterprise software or cloud services using C++.
As part of the Horizon Client and agent Engineering team (CART), you will be providing technical leadership by driving the design and development of major architecture components. You will be owning engineering initiatives and champion a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. You will coach, manage, and mentor team of engineers.
Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• During your first two months on the job, you will work on understanding the product architecture, existing product development tools and release process. You are expected to gain knowledge in the domain and the technology your team is already using and participate in the team’s scope and architectural discussions.
• By the sixth month we expect you to be in full control of the deliverables of your team. You work with your peer managers and product management team to build the product backlog, scope the projects working with your team members, make sure that they are delivered on-time and with the expected quality.
• You will have to establish a reputation of leadership within a team and demonstrate influence within their area of expertise.
• You will have to collaboratively work across other product and component teams.
• You assume the people management responsibilities of a team of highly skilled software engineers.
• You create career plans with each team member that captures where they are, where they want to go, and the tangible steps that will help them address any gaps in their current skills and experience.
• Your team is healthy as determined by key metrics of engagement, retention, work/life balance, and delivery.
• You will have to be a subject matter expert with deep expertise in the key components of our data pipeline and platform.
• You will have to handle the interactions with product management, cross-functional teams, and other groups, internal and external to VMware, to define and deliver the required solutions.
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  You will have to participate in all phases of software development including requirements, design, coding, testing, debugging, and performance tuning.
  

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Manage and lead a highly skilled engineering team and drive the design, implementation, and delivery.
• Take ownership of Product architecture, design, product quality, user experience, and security
• Communicate on regular basis with product management and release teams. As part of this team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams in multiple geographies to ensure product delivery and customer commitments are met on time.
• Our products are critical to our customers, and you will co-ordinate and collaborate with our support team to make sure our customer needs are met.
• Perform analysis of complex tasks or situations that required in-depth evaluation.
• Connect your team’s work to other parts of the product.
• Bringing clarity where there is uncertainty, managing risk and continuously delivering value.
• Train and mentor junior engineers by providing technical guidance and direction.
• Take initiatives and identify new areas of improvement for products, tools, and process.
• Manage activities to meet delivery dates and milestones and communicate status and risks to Engineering leads and project team.
• You will implement and improve processes around DevOps, Agile, and CI/CD
• You will be responsive to customer and product asks and escalations and help prioritize engineering work.
• You should be doing regular 1:1 with your direct reports, discussing short term and long-term goals making sure your engineers have the direction needed to be successful.
• Coach engineers and sustainably grow individuals on your team.
• As a people manager you will also be responsible for compensation and bonus planning and hiring
• You will be responsible for daily engineering activities such as stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, architectural reviews, customer support, release readiness.
• Championing a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence
  

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
This role will be reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering. The team consists of highly competent senior and junior engineers working closely as a team. Our team’s focus is on challenging the status quo by innovating but at the same time getting stuff done. We believe in building trust amongst team members, all our stakeholders and committing to make our customers successful. The team is organized based on modules to define clear responsibility and accountability. At the same time teams are fluid enough to own up whatever is needed for the larger product to be successful. The team is transparent in communication and help each other for the success of overall team. We believe engineers are the most valuable asset of our company and team. We put extra emphasis on providing great work life balance and having fun at work.
Where is this role located?
Flexible: The role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from a local VMware office and remote depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with your future manager. You will be expected to live within a reasonable non-daily commute of the office.
What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
• Generous Time Off Programs
• 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community.
• Rethinks Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities.
• Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
• Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes
  

VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
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