You Will Make an Impact By:

• Leading all aspects of software development
• Defining culture and objectives for the software team
• Recruiting and coaching exceptional software engineering talent
• Developing and improving our software development process
• Managing software development schedules and release plans
• Ensuring software achieves quality, stability, and performance goals
• Contributing as a senior Engineering leader
• Collaborating with senior leadership and executives to develop product roadmaps and build best-in-class software solutions
• Owning relationships with software consultants and suppliers
• Ensuring that your team has the training, tools, and opportunity to perform at an industry-leading level
• Collaborating with global software teams across MKS to identify and incorporate best practices and new technologies
  
  

Skills You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related subject area, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience managing software engineering teams
• Significant experience delivering software for complex automated industrial systems with real-time controls
• Significant experience managing software teams that use shared components
• Significant experience sharing actively developed code used by multiple teams with different schedules and goals
• Experienced in Agile practices, CI/CD pipelines and modern QA and process tools
• Exposure to machine learning and artificial intelligence tools and technologies
• Excellent at using verbal and written communication to convey complex information and gain alignment and support across a diverse audience of stakeholders
• Proven track record of influencing senior leadership
• Proven track record of recruiting top talent
• Ability to develop strong, inclusive relationships
• A strong focus on data, measurable outcomes, and overall software quality
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related subject area, or equivalent experience
• Exposure to building web, cloud-based, and microservice-architected applications
  
  

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

• Perform activities such as sitting, standing, or typing for extended periods of time
• Regularly requires good manual dexterity and coordination
• Ability to remain in a stationary position for 90% of the time
• Must be able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand
• Must be able to exchange accurate information
• Operates in a professional office environment
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery
• Ability to observe documents and details at close range (within a few feet of the observer)
• Noise level in the work environment is usually average