Principal Software Engineer at Viavi Solutions in Indianapolis, Indiana

Job Description:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 90+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customer's most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected - at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

We are seeking a Lead/Manager to drive, monitor, and facilitate convergence strategies in our System Software businesses across the company. The candidate will hold a highly visible position in a very dynamic, multi-tasking work environment.

The position is a managerial (60%) and technical (40%) role where you will be responsible for determing the structural dynamics (workforce models, tools, processes) and driving the SW architecture across multiple software products in addition to driving convergence when possible. The successful candidate must have a proven ability to utilize personal leadership, communications and team development skills to help align the teams on architecture, tools and processes while maintaining our innovation leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Core responsibility is to work with Functional Managers to develop a convergence strategy, plan and then drive agreed on milestones as it relates to:
• People/Staff: Utilization of staff (internal, contract/outside services)
• Process: Optimization of process as it relates to new product development and internal test
• Tools: Optimization of tools
• Technology/Platforms: Convergence of technology and platforms
• Interact with diverse areas (e.g. marketing, operations, other divisions) to achieve business unit goals.
• Display experience and participate in full lifecycle of development for software systems.
• Act as a change agent, collaborate with others to create architecture roadmaps and improve development processes.
• In conjunction with Marketing and Engineering teams, develop and maintain a product / technology roadmap aligned with industry architecture trends the strategic direction of the business. Identify any technology or skill set gaps that will impede roadmap attainment and develop and execute plans for resolution.
• Support our "One-Team" initiative to converge on tools/processes across the different R&D locations.
• Mentor the other SW leads to better enable cross-site development capabilities.
• Exercise Business Acumen to make smart business and product tradeoff decisions across entire business.
• Work cross-functionally to perform risk assessments to encourage teams to take informed risks with measured consequences.
• Manage complexity and ambiguity to lead teams in execution while details are being finalized over time.

Required Qualifications:

Education and general experience:

• BSCS / BSCE or equivalent experience (required), advanced engineering degree (preferred)
• Eight plus years of systems architecture and/or engineering leadership experience and 10 years of hands on software development experience.
• System software architect and design methodology experience:
• OO Design methodology experience
• Experience with enterprise level solution architectures
• Significant experience with micro-service architectures
• Significant experience with application and data hosting
• Demonstrated experience in distributed systems
• Relevant and recent Cloud computing experience
• Software development environment and methodology experience:
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
• Familiarity with standard SW development tools (version control, debuggers, issue databases, etc.)
• Organization development and communication:
• Experience leading in-house and outsourced development teams
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and abilities
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with PLM, BU GM and executive level
• Ability to define and create project management plans and documents to present project status to senior management. Must be results oriented to achieve project goals by doing whatever is necessary to move the team forward.
• Ability to work across sites, time zones and cultures to deliver on project goals in addition to overall company initiatives.

Additional Consideration:

• Experience in technologies and trends in telecommunications
• Experience in data warehouse mining

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.

VIAVI Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer - minorities/females/veterans/persons with disabilities.

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