Head of Software Engineering, Digital Solutions
Company: Watts Water Technologies
Location: Austin
Posted on: January 26, 2023
Job Description:
Watts Water family of companies designs, manufactures and
commercializes high-quality, innovative products and solutions that
promote the comfort and safety of people and the quality,
conservation and control of water used in commercial, residential,
industrial and municipal applications. Based in North Andover, MA
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. is traded on the NY Stock Exchange
under the symbol "WTS". Watts, with revenues of approximately $1.8
billion, has operations in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle
East and Africa with over 4600 employees. Watts objective is to
increase sales and earnings by expanding into new markets, making
key acquisitions and reducing manufacturing costs through the One
Watts Performance System.
Today, Watts through its various brands and subsidiaries, is a
global provider of plumbing, heating and water quality solutions
for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Our
extensive portfolio of products and leading brands range from
highly technical to fast moving shelf goods and allows us to be
present in the following categories: Plumbing & Flow Control, Water
Quality & Conditioning, Drainage & Water Reuse, HVAC, and Municipal
Waterworks. We strive to be the best long-term partner for
installers, specifiers, distributors and OEM customers.Watts is
leading the digitalization of the water management space,
developing smart & connected products and commercializing digital
solutions that deliver lasting value to customers. The newly formed
Digital Solutions team spearheads the development of cutting-edge
customer-facing solutions within Watts in coordination with
business units, focusing on delivering actionable and trusted
insights to customers through intuitive solutions that continuously
evolve to meet ever-changing user needs.ROLE PURPOSE AND SCOPE:We
are looking for an exceptional Head of Software Engineering who
will work with leadership teams across Watts to define the
cross-organization technology architecture vision and roadmap,
deliver the suite of customer-facing applications, build a
high-performing engineering culture and team, and manage alignment
across Watts' enterprise stakeholders and external
partners.Technical Strategy, Vision and Architecture
- Defining and evolving the Northstar architecture for
customer-facing solutions across Watts
- Leading strategic technological roadmaps and initiatives that
align Digital Solutions, BUs, and other organizational units
- Evangelizing technical vision and strategy both internally and
externally
- Communicating technology decisions and outcomes to key
stakeholders (e.g., sponsors, ecosystem partners, product
teams)
- Advising the team on selection of modern technologies including
languages, open-source and third-party tools to increase efficiency
and improve technology and product offerings
- Planning and allocating resources appropriately between
innovation and mature solutions
- Building and managing external partnerships with software
development vendors, integration partners, etc.Execution, Product
Delivery and Results
- Collaborating with the Digital Product teams and enterprise BUs
to define product and technology roadmaps and to deliver new
products and features
- Continuously rebalance product, service, technical features,
which maximize value and minimize effort to focus on the highest
returning initiatives for business and customer
- Improving development process, with a focus on automating
regular high-quality releases
- Defining, tracking, and delivering key productivity metrics and
continually work towards improving team efficiency and engineering
output
- Championing a culture of learning, measurement, accountability,
and qualityBUs, Operations, IT, Information Security and
Infrastructure
- Partnering with hardware BUs to deliver software-based
solutions in support of BU objectives and roadmaps
- Partnering with IT and operations in support of enterprise IT
strategy
- Supporting the organization with the internal productivity and
collaboration tools across physical offices and remote
environments
- Continuing to evolve security practices and controls to meet
the needs of protecting customer data and systems
- Maintaining and optimizing the budget of infrastructure and
software toolsRecruiting and Building a High Performing Engineering
Organization
- Working with the recruiting team to build a pipeline of diverse
engineers to support the growth of the engineering
organization
- Evolving how the Digital Solutions organizes engineering and
defining career paths
- Creating rotational opportunities to distribute skills across
Watts and develop the next set of leaders from within
- Elevating the engineering brand through published work and
speaking at eventsQUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Startup and enterprise SaaS engineering senior leadership
experience driving business results
- 10+ years architecting software solutions and leading product
development teams
- Managed a portfolio of mature and at scale digital products and
platforms
- Defined and launched at least 2 products from inception,
preferably in the B2B segment
- Experience designing, building and scaling IOT and/or data
analytics platforms
- Designing and developing microservice-based architectures and
data engineering pipelines
- Designing data analytics use cases and familiarity with
time-series databases, PowerBI, SQL, python, and open-source data
and analytics tools
- Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Azure Cloud
Infrastructure
- Software engineering practices (e.g. Agile software
development, test driven development, unit testing, code reviews,
design documentation, etc.)
- Deep understanding with Data Engineering & Advanced
Analytics
- Familiarity with Hardware and Network engineering
- Ability to stand up a remote organization, hire & coach
engineering talent
- Experience dealing with challenging priorities in a fast-paced
environment
- Shown experience engaging and influencing senior executives and
managing cross-organizational stakeholders
- Experience establishing and managing external vendor
relationships
- An entrepreneurial spirit that is flexible, experimental, and
resourcefulPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: as required by Americans
Disabilities Act (ADA)While performing the tasks of this job, you
are frequently required to walk, talk, and/or hear. You are
occasionally required to stand, sit, and use hands to finger,
handle, or feel. You must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20
pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include
close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and
ability to adjust focus.Watts is committed to equal employment
opportunity. We follow a policy of administering all employment
decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color,
religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual
orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic
disposition or carrier status, marital status, military or veteran
status, minorities, or any other category protected under
applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the
obligations of state and federal law, Watts will make reasonable
accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any
employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human
Resources.#LI RemoteWatts is committed to equal employment
opportunity. We follow a policy of administering all employment
decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color,
religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual
orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic
disposition or carrier status, marital status, military or veteran
status, minorities, or any other category protected under
applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the
obligations of state and federal law, Watts will make reasonable
accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any
employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human
Resources.
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