Software Manager

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement address cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

OUR GROUP

At Physical Failure Analysis group (PFA), we develop and maintain the software for automation of operation of Scanning Electron Microscopes. Our solution is essential for our customers from semiconductor industry to identify errors in the production of semiconductor components and advance their research and production, to make them more robust, reliable, energy efficient.
We are looking for a Software Manager in our PFA Team. Would you like to accept a change and join a new team in a well-established international company? Would you be willing to take over the responsibility for leading a team which is responsible for development of software that performs automation of the scanning electron microscope with a nanometer precision and allows development of the worlds smallest chips and memory modules?

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in related field required
• 5+ years in agile software development
• Experience with software development process, mentoring, and teamwork

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Facilitative leader who can grow and empower team members and agile teams
• Ability to use data and metrics to identify and address problems and drive continuous improvement
• Focus on quality and robustness
• C#/NET. expertise
• Desire and ability to work in an international context and diverse R&D team that is multi-disciplinary
• Highly motivated teammate with a strong desire for continuous learning and broadening knowledge base.

• Provide supervision and mentor developers, scientists and test engineers to support their career growth.
• Support agile teams in collaboration, problem solving, decision-making and removing barriers so that teams can deliver high quality, innovative software on time.
• Develop and sustain relationships with vendors and joint development partners that support and accelerate the team’s development activities.
• Guard the software development processes and their implementation in the organisation.
• Identify risks during execution and help with their mitigation.