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**Title**: Engineering Manager I (CA) (60000485)
**Primary Location**: Mexico (MX) - Coahuila Motores JD-Torreon
**Function**: Technology (CA)
**Main responsibilities**:
Provides critical input into major technology decisions (e.g., upgrade decisions, major architectural decisions, establishment of standards) in alignment with the needs and priorities of the business.
Supports the Group Engineering Manager and the business and acts as a servant leader to their product team(s).
Ensures adherence to technical standards that will promote security, quality, delivery and cost effectiveness.
Ensures scrum teams align their efforts to the needs of the business and work within the framework of overall IT strategy.
**What skills you need**:
- Provides team leadership, motivation and recognition communications, provides staff member with challenging roles and growth opportunities, and maintains collaborative relationships between divisions, suppliers, dealers, branches, factories, product engineering, customers, and team members.
Performs Performance Management tasks.
- Understands the vision, strategy, and customer for the area of responsibility and influences the technical dimensions of the roadmap.
Determines the right technology choices (e.g.
upgrade decisions, hosting decisions) to best deliver business value within the development standards defined.
- Collaborates with Product Owners & Architects, ensures the design, selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of technology is successfully integrated and operated within the company business environment.
- Resolves disagreements regarding technical requirements for interdependencies across teams.
- Drives Agile culture among teams, along with monitoring product health, technical debt and key team metrics.
- Manages the staffing strategy to ensure Scrum teams have highly-engaged, appropriately staffed team members to ensure team longevity.
Coordinates with HR the hiring of new team members.
- Understands financial implications of the technology and makes economically sound decisions.
Provides input in the operating budget and has responsibility for managing it.
- Coordinates the use of internal technical support/resources and vendor support to provide higher levels of troubleshooting, maintenance, to meet business requirements and achieve results.
**What makes you stand out**:
- Experience with Agile and Lean Service Management methodologies.
- Knowledge of relevant technologies (including, but not limited to, LAN, WLAN, Nutanix, VMWare, SDWAN, NetApp storage, Cisco DNA Center, automation tools, cloud).
- Excellence in verbal and written communication with emphasis on persuasive, tact and negotiation.
- Knowledge of Information systems, technologies and architecture.
- Good people leadership skills.
**Education**:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Infrastructure Technologies or equivalent experience.