R&D Manager (Firmware/Software) - F/M

Based in Lattes (34), close to Montpellier, you will join Schneider Electric's Digital Energy business.

It is delivering products and solutions to digitize the High / Medium Voltage electric distribution for better Energy Management, helping all customer achieve decarbonization, resiliency & efficiency.

We do this by developing protection, control & automation systems, solutions and tools 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 several teams of ~20 engineers (internal and external resources), developing embedded firmware of our connected products or software for products interfaces.

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

The site of Lattes, close to Montpellier (34) is a strategic site for Digital Energy activities, regrouping in one place R&D, Project execution and Center of Excellence teams.

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 systems.

Your missions :


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


* Build high-performance teams 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


* 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 and to the excellence execution initiatives


* Ensure knowledge development, capitalization and promotion

Your profile :


* Master degree in Electrical engineering or Computer Systems


* Minimum 5 years of embedded software development experience on system offers or intelligent electronic devices


* 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, system design and V&V experience (System Engineering with MBSE, MBD and MBT)


* Continuous integration and continuous delivery (DevSecOps)
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