Software Delivery Manager

Job Title

EN-FR-00: Software Domain Leader (SWDL)

(SCDL – Software & Control, S&ADL - Schematics & Apparatus, SWDL - Software, V&TDL - Verification & Test)

Purpose of the Job

• He/she manages Software Delivery Engineers to execute delivery activities of software products across the complete software lifecycle.
• He/She is responsible for managing Cost, Schedule and Risks of Software deliveries.
• He/she assess and builds the required competencies for software project management by following right tools and methodologies. 
• He/She is responsible of bringing best practices in area of software delivery management, ensuring right estimations and commitments methods in bids and rolling out new delivery processes (e.g. agile methodologies).
• He/She ensures planning, scheduling, budgeting, execution, and delivery of software within Software Factory.

Position in the Organisation

Organisation Reporting

• Hierarchical - He/she reports to Head Software Factory
• Functional - He/she reports to Head Software Factory

Network & Links

Internal

• Project Engineering Managers (PrEM)
• Train Control Engineers (TCE) /Train System Engineers (TSE)
• Central TC&IS team
• Leaders of other Domains on his/her site
• Leaders of the same Domain on other sites

External

• Customers 
• Supplier
• External certification bodies

Missions

Performance Measurement KPI’s

• Achieve SW project QCD objectives
• Engineering Work Package costs at completion
• Global workload management of his/her team: Capacity = workload ± 10%
• Workforce staffing ramp-up at project start up :(Capacity = workload) at T0 + 1 month
• Level of application of standard process & tools :100% standard process & tools applied
• Return of Experience (REX) management between projects: ZERO missing REX between projects 

Responsibilities

Accountable for :

• To drive the delivery objectives to achieve Software Factory’s Vision and Mission.
• Defining, developing, and sharing re-usable “design patterns” for estimations, scheduling and delivery in his/her domain
• Deploying the standard processes and related methodologies and tools in order to ensure his/her Domain efficiency within projects management and deliveries
• Promoting continuous improvement initiatives in his/her team
• Managing the traceability and configuration of tools used by his/her team
• Supporting Tenders on some costing issues
• Supporting Projects on some project management or process issue

Responsible for :

• Assigning the resources (staff, tools, …) for executing Software Delivery Engineering WP of his/her Domain
• Managing the workload, including the sub-contracted part (technical assistance or work-package)
• Contributing to the sub-contracting strategy in liaise with Sourcing
• Evaluating performance and setting objectives of his/her team
• Defining the training plan appropriate to his/her team’s needs and Alstom strategy
• Representing Software Factory team among project core team and manages interfaces with other Project teams
• Networking with other sites to share workload, Return on Experience and Technology topics
• Managing his/her Domain by using regularly updated KPIs related to project performance and software product deliveries
• Keeping other domain leaders (Software , V&T, Test means) informed of the QCD of Projects his/her team contributes to, in order to propose improvements, if necessary
• An innovative and transformation mindset to identify improvement opportunities to optimize processes, decrease costs and increase stakeholder experience
• Initiating and following up action plans to solve issues common across projects and/or improve results in projects
• Managing and sharing the REX of his/her activities with Central TC&IS
• Proposing improvements on his/her Domain process and tools defined by Central.
• Ensure no delivery suffers due to non-availability of infrastructure for the team.
• Identify necessary investment (CAPEX) 

Job Specifications

Knowledge & Experience

• Balanced skills between general management, technical management and SW project management
• Ability for analysis, problem-solving and efficient decision-making in complex environment
• Ability to work across sites in a multi-cultural environment 
• Demonstrated capacity to lead cross-functional activities and numerous/various stakeholders
• Experience of hands-on activities of his/her Domain activities on multiple projects (at least 2 years in Railways/Aerospace/Automotive domain) like
• Software Development
• Software Verification & test: test specification, hardware-software integration
• Software Validation and Assessment
• Experience in team and project management (at least 5 years).
• He/She should have a wide latitude in decision making and determination of objectives and approaches to critical assignments
• Familiarity with Domain modelling tools and Product Life Cycle management tools
• Fluent in English
• Train system knowledge (system analysis, railways) (at least 2 years),
• Strong hold on software project deliveries, methodologies, control & monitoring and reporting.

Team size

• Direct reports: he/she manages from 5 to 20 persons
• Managing Software Factory cross functional teams as part of Project allocation

Innovation

On a yearly basis :

• Make proposals of R&D topics leading to improvements of performance of Engineering in term of Quality or Productivity
• Identify necessary investment (CAPEX)

All along the year :

• Follow market innovations in his/her domain and derive product R&D topics if useful