Director Mobile Software Engineering (m/f/d)

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Here’s what we’re looking for:

Interview process to kick off at the end of August

The Director, Mobile Software Engineering is a key leadership role in the Patient Insights Engineering organization. This role leads the practice of mobile software engineering, guiding a global organization of mobile software engineers across a portfolio of programs. 

The person taking on this role needs to be a strong people leader and a deep technical leader. For people leadership, candidates for this role need the ability to hire and grow top engineering talent, leading multiple teams and individuals (including managers and senior technical leaders) to work efficiently together. For technical leadership, candidates for this role need a deep understanding of mobile software engineering practices, mobile architecture design patterns, and experience with the mobile application development lifecycle for commercial products.

The role also requires strong communication inside and outside of engineering, working closely with product management, program management, UX leaders, and others to translate user needs to enterprise-scale solutions.

You will be responsible 

• Technology Leadership: while you may not write much code in this role, you need to have extensive and recent experience as an expert mobile software engineer, so you deeply understand the languages, architectural design patterns, and lifecycle challenges of mobile software development. You will lead the global practice of mobile software engineering, coaching engineers to continuously improve on mobile software engineering best practices.
• People Leadership: as a people manager, you’ll be responsible for hiring, growing and motivating engineers on your team, ensuring you recruit and retain top talent. You’ll manage managers as well as senior technical leaders. Your team will be distributed globally across North America, Europe, and Asia. Your engineers will operate in a matrix environment, and you will lead “horizontally” supporting your engineers who are assigned to the program “verticals”.
• Process Leadership: drive best practices for agile development of complex mobile software solutions with globally distributed teams
• Understanding the enterprise architecture vision, design principles from the organization, and relying on the technical leadership from your team to ensure we have an integrated view of the solution in a way that the teams can follow accordingly.
• Business partnership. Ensure proper collaboration between your responsible teams and the business teams. Balancing the delivery and the Software Engineering practices.
• Travel up to 25% required

Your profile

• Have successfully built, deployed, and supported multiple commercial mobile software applications in a senior leadership role. Strong preference for experience with consumer-facing or patient-facing solutions rather than internal enterprise applications.
• Proven ability to lead multiple, globally distributed software engineering teams to on-time, on-budget delivery
• Strong knowledge of application rollout strategies.
• Strong knowledge of Real Usage Monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of cyber security practices for mobile applications.
• Proven ability to build a metrics-based, data-driven engineering process to sustainably and predictable deliver new products
• Previous experience as an expert-level mobile software engineer developing native mobile software applications in Kotlin or Swift and cross-platform frameworks such as Flutter or React Native including verification strategies.
• Quick learner with the ability to understand complex workflows and develop and validate innovative solutions to solve difficult problems.
• Strong communication, with the ability to explain complex technical problems to non-technical audiences and the ability to translate customer requirements to technical designs
• Proven ability to navigate complex corporate environments and operate in a matrix management environment
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and cross-functional enterprise partners
• Must have experience building and leading teams of 50+ mobile engineers and testers in an agile environment, ideally in a Scaled Agile Framework environment.
• Experience in healthcare is not required, but familiarity with healthcare systems and data and workflows is a plus
• BS degree or equivalent experience in a directly related discipline (CS, Eng, etc.)
• 10+ years of software development and leadership experience

Leadership Skills

You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective leadership for a global team. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead your team to create transformative solutions, and to influence their prioritization and uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of Patient Insights and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Diagnostics Vision.

Locations

You will be based in mySugr Vienna, Austria . At the Company’s discretion, an exception to the location requirement could be made under extraordinary circumstances. 

As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

Here’s what you can expect from us:

• Ambitious and passionate people building meaningful products
• An innovative working environment allowing for collaboration with really smart people and knowledge sharing in cross-functional teams
• Loads of benefits (brand new Apple hardware, fitness, public transport, lunch benefit, language classes, professional training budget, chance to join global conferences…)
• Flexible working hours, home office policy and 5 weeks vacation
• A kick-ass office with a rooftop terrace, fully stocked kitchen and amazing barista coffee machines in the middle of Vienna… oh, and did we mention the best team in the world!

Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Who we are and what we care about: 

Here at mySugr and Roche we are committed to providing a healthy, equal and inclusive working environment for our Monster Tamers to help them make diabetes suck less! We care about family friendly career paths, sustainability, a healthy lifestyle and the flexibility of a modern workplace. We maintain a culture of learning and sharing, as well as open and candid feedback. At every level, there are many opportunities to develop and grow at mySugr – both professionally and personally.

Being a global leader in integrated Personalised Diabetes Management (iPDM), Roche Diabetes Care collaborates with pioneers around the globe, including people with diabetes, caregivers, healthcare providers and payers. We aim to transform and advance care provision and foster sustainable care structures. Under the brands RocheDiabetes, Accu-Chek and mySugr, comprising glucose monitoring, insulin delivery systems and digital solutions, we unite with our partners to create patient-centred value. By building and collaborating in an open ecosystem, connecting devices and digital solutions as well as contextualising relevant data points, we enable deeper insights and a better understanding of diabetes, leading to personalised and effective therapy adjustments.

In Austria, we have a legal obligation to disclose the minimum salary according to our collective agreement, which is gross €5.132 – per month for this position. But! Rest assured, we offer amazing competitive compensation packages which take into consideration current market trends, therefore you can expect a higher offer that reflects your experience level.

Interested? Great! We’d like to hear from you! Please submit your resume, cover letter, and whatever else you would like to share!

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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