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Why work for us? Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we are delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.  With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways. Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with a global reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we are always looking for top talent ready to bring their best.  Come grow with us!

Job Responsibilities:

Leadership and Strategy Responsibilities

+ Lead the software engineering organization to successful delivery of business outcomes.

+ Manage the software engineering budget, with ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures.

+ Build strong working relationships with business leaders to ensure software engineering teams meet expectations and contribute to achievement of business goals.

+ Collaborate with IT and business leaders to develop short- and long-term strategic plans.

+ Support and facilitate innovative and experimental software development work to test new ideas , within bounded cost and time frames .

+ Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the software engineering organization.

+ Work with product management leadership to design, manage, and/or execute product roadmaps.

Talent Management Responsibilities

+ Develop workforce strategy to meet the organization’s current and future software engineering needs through developing, hiring, and/or sourcing talent .

+ Manage resource allocation across teams to maximize business impact of resources and ensure each team has the skills and capabilities needed to achieve its objectives .

+ Manage software engineering talent, playing a key role in performance management and compensation processes, role and competency definition, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

+ Partner with Human Resources to create learning and development opportunities aligned to the organization’s skill and capability needs, and to provide rewarding career paths for software engineering staff.

+ Recruit and hire talent to address new needs and skill gaps.

+ Build a culture that supports learning, collaboration, transparency, and inclusiveness.

+ Manage employee engagement and promote a compelling employee value proposition to retain software engineering staff.

+ Oversight Responsibilities for Software Engineering Activities

+ Champion best practices and modern software development methods and tools.

+ Lead software engineering teams and other stakeholders to set goals for improving code quality, maintainability, security, and scalability. Monitor progress against these goals.

+ Implement and manage software development status reporting, metrics, and benchmarks.

+ Manage collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations to ensure software performs well in production and meets SLAs.

+ Work with the Chief Information Security Officer to ensure software is effectively secured and that risks are mitigated.

+ Oversee management of relationships with consultants, vendors, and contractors and support negotiation of statements of work and business terms with suppliers.

+ In collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations leaders, oversee DevOps processes and practices, including automating the handoff of code releases from development to operations.

Education:

+ Bachelor’s degree or equivalent applied experience.

+ 10+ years of experience in software engineering.

+ 5+ years of experience in managing talent.

+ Experience managing a team of at least 5 to 10 employees.

+ Background in manufacturing preferred.

At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people – ALL PEOPLE – breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.

Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.