R&D Manager - systèmes embarqués (F/H)

Based in Lattes (34), close to Montpellier, you will join Schneider Electric Digital Energy business.The Digital Power Line Of Business is delivering products and solutions to digitize the Medium Voltage / Low Voltage electric distribution for better Energy Management,

helping all customer achieve decarbonization, resiliency & efficiency.

We do this by developing metering, protection, control & automation solutions for the electrical grid.

Within Digital Power, the R&D teams (~210 people in France) are working following Agile methodologies.

Because our business is growing, we want to reinforce our R&D management team with a new Chapter Leader.

You will lead a team of ~20 engineers, developping embedded softwares integrated in our connected products (mostly electrical network protection relays and control automation systems - legacy and new generations).

This R&D effort is driven within an international environment with strong collaboration required with teams located in China.

Your role :

You will allocate your team resources according to the projects roadmap priorities, develop people competencies & engagement and drive performance to develop best-in-class firmware systems.

Your missions :


* Allocate / identify the internal & external resources allowing to reach the teams objectives


* Build high-performance team with continuous coaching, feedback, and on the job training


* Make sure top down and bottom-up communication is well organized.

Ensure team engagement is at excellent level to drive high quality delivery


* Drive a culture of customer centric, innovation, R&D excellence and agility


* Drive platforming, reusing and efficiency improvement strategy on the proper R&D perimeter


* Manage and control the budget (CAPEX & OPEX) of the teams in compliance with the Product Owner orientations / Board Of Change requests / R&D situation


* Drive and nurture potential inventions and support intellectual property creation


* Drive and sponsor cooperation with other R&D teams, suppliers or partners for technology deployment in alignment with offers management


* Contribute to the R&D digital transformation


* Ensure knowledge development, capitalization and promotion


* Ensure Services tools and processes consistency, their operation and documentation

Your profile :


* Bachelor degree and above in Electrical engineering or Computer Systems.

Master degree preferred


* Minimum 5 years of embedded software development experience on system offer or intelligent electronic device OR 10 years of application development or deployment experience (HW/SW dev., Electrical Power system development, Cybersecurity, Functional safety design,...)


* And minimum 5 years team and people management experience (functional or hierarchy)

Your skills :


* Strong system delivery and system V&V experience


* Continuous integration and continuous delivery, test automation experience


* Agile delive...