Job Summary: This is a technical project delivery role responsible for defining, specifying, documenting and delivering the engineering solutions for projects and products. The Technical Delivery Manager, acting hand in hand with the Program Manager, is responsible for managing the program’s engineering-related tasks, and ensuring that engineering solutions are proposed, implemented and delivered to the agreed scope, budget, and schedule.
This position will be required to provide engineering leadership to development teams, and lead investigation of engineering issues in the field and development laboratories. The role will require familiarity with devices, back office systems (including financial transactions, reconciliation, payment processing, and customer services) and mobile applications.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Deliver engineering solutions that meet budget, schedule and agreed scope
Provide engineering leadership for new or ongoing projects
Collaborate with engineers, operations, program management, product management, and other stakeholders to come up with solutions, taking a management lead on design and development, and transitioning from project to operations
Work with project management and schedulers to define and maintain engineering project schedules and plans
Work with project management and financial analysts to define and maintain engineering budgets, and monitor cost and earned value status
May be responsible for coordinating and aligning multiple scrum teams, and leading a scrum-of-scrums
Lead cross-team collaboration using tools such as Confluence, SharePoint and Slack
Establish and follow engineering development plans
Define and solve problems in a persistent and systematic fashion, taking an engineering lead on defect management in accordance with engineering processes and be hands-on with troubleshooting exercises when required
Manage technical presentations, discussions, workshops and gate reviews
Manage the engineering and technical review of documents and work products
Enforce proper software and systems design documentation and methodology
Ensure project and development teams are properly appraised of status, schedule and scope
Manage the analysis and capture of user requirements using tools such as DOORS, and the elaboration of system and sub-system requirements from user requirements
Manage and monitor software development work activities and status using tools such as Jira
Monitor testing and formal requirements sign-off
Support defect identification and resolution, and monitor test status using tools such as TestRail.
Lead or participate in process and technology improvement initiatives
Work collaboratively with internal departments, customer representatives, third party suppliers and other stakeholders
Establish and review engineering statements of work and work breakdown structures in conjunction with project plans and schedules
Develop engineering estimates using appropriate methods such as bottom-up and parametric techniques
Monitor/coordinate software integration and software/hardware integration in integration and test/QA environments
Assist with and develop plans for supplier software releases based on customer and stakeholder requirements
Follow formal change management processes
General Duties and Responsibilities:
Comply with Cubic’s Quality Management System
Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures
Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organizations
Comply with Cubic Human Resources Procedures
Other duties as requested
Minimum Job Requirements:
Four-year college degree in Engineering (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline) or Business Operations, plus eight years of related experience. Experience in creating, analyzing, documenting and testing system and subsystem designs. Mental ability to perform engineering problem solving and analytical tasks. Familiarity with project management principles. Must be able to work under project deadlines and be able to establish and maintain engineering project schedules and cost budgets. Must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Must communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form. Requires strong team building and multi-tasking skills. Must be a pro-active leader who is decisive and action-oriented, and can liaise effectively with project teams, project managers and customers (internal and external). Project management qualifications, such as PMI PMP, is desired.
The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.