Your role will work with all engineering stakeholders to demonstrate Canonical’s ‘ways of working’. Together with engineering leadership, you will define and implement continuous improvement processes and establish qualification requirements to support engineering quality standards . Throughout this effort, you will work closely with our teams in challenge them positively, supporting and developing controls alongside existing development lifecycle processes. You will also establish strategic relations with external working groups, committees and partners. You will report directly to our Vice President of Engineering Excellence and work closely with company-wide engineering leadership to define and execute this vision.

Location: This role may be held anywhere in European, Middle Eastern, African or Americas regions or time zones.

What your day will look like

• Implement the vision and strategy for Engineering Excellence
• Represent Ubuntu and Canonical in front of customers, partners and consortia to support our demonstration of excellence
• Coordinate, guide and positively influence Canonical engineering  ways of working
• Develop skills through coaching, feedback and hands-on technical leadership
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Work from home with international travel twice a year, up to two weeks at a time, for company events

What we are looking for in you

• You have a strong experience in engineering and process management in an agile environment
• You love developing and growing people and teams and have a track record of doing it
• You have led successful compliance and certification efforts, understand well the process and stakeholders management required
• You have knowledge or certification addressing industry standards such as ISO IEC 9001, 25010 and 15504 / SPICE
• You worked on successful open source projects known for their demonstrated engineering processes

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Background as a software developer
• Experience in establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills