Project Engineer - Embedded Software (Leader)

The Project Engineer – Embedded Software leads an Agile software design team to innovate and provide cost-effective and on-time software solutions to meet customer needs. This position leads software engineering projects, Agile team development, and continuousimprovement of software development methods, practices, and standards.Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:Lead by exhibiting the Vermeer characteristics of caring culture, demonstrating agility, customer focused and stewardship while modeling the associated behaviors. Supervise, organize, mentor and coach assigned team members in performance of their duties while influencing others to carry the Vermeer culture forward. Establish and monitor individual and team goals which are aligned with the organization’s strategies and objectives to drive key business results. Use expertise to ensure department is serving its internal and external customers and meeting defined expectations.Lead a software development team from planning, release schedule, story creation, backlog organization and prioritization, through execution in Sprints and Potentially Shippable Increment to software verification and release. Is the single point of contact for software development on assigned projects. Lead continuous improvement activities regarding software development methods, practices, and standards.Develop metrics and dashboards to transparently lead a software Agile development team in delivering on-time, high quality, and defect free embedded software. Measure and manage software defects by identify root causes, detection and escape points in order to implement both short and long term corrective and preventative actions.Provide early-stage software development plans to identifying change, build initial backlog, and match the Agile team’s capacity to provide completion milestones so overall project can be planned for success.Promote a healthy development culture that empowers Agile software teams to deliver incremental value every Sprint.Maintain and organize software functional specifications, code repository, change control processes and configuration management.Ensure test planning is part of Potentially Shippable Increment and Sprint planning and assure stories contain robust and common definitions of done.