Group Manager – Product Development

About Applied

Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future.

As a Group Manager, you will be responsible for understanding and learning Product domain and Software and hence build product development team you are required to lead for product software features/bugs end to end development and deployment. In this role you will utilize your experience to mentor software developers, Junior managers, find technical gaps and build technical capability within the team.

As a Group Manager, you need to interface with multiple stakeholders each with different disciplines and work in matrix organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for Product software development team deliverables from requirements to final code delivery with required SW Quality.
• Learn Product Domain and Software to provide technical mentorship to teams.
• Expected to be proficient in programming and software development and managing teams of 15-20 developers.
• Given the requirement, expected to define functional specification, design specification, implementation & verification plan.
• Require strong communication skill to interact and influence stakeholders as you will need to interact with the end users of the products and applications engineering teams.
• He / She should be an expert in software development Life cycle and exposure to Agile development methodologies.
• Expected to be good at problem solving and debugging.
• Will require to effectively work in a multi-site environment, with teams across time zones,
• Provide timely communications on significant issues or developments and support team members to deliver on expectations
• Lead  teams to support organizational initiatives and generic issues
• Involve in hiring and building Task force for the team.
• As a project lead own the planning and tracking of deliverables
• Ready to work in a Techno-managerial role with significant technical contribution from Manager
• Be willing to travel to onsite locations for Business meetings, Version installations.

Qualification and Requirements

Bachelor's Degree / Master degree in Engineering with CE /EE background and 15+ years of experience

• Minimum of 10 year experience in software development with exposures to bug fixing, maintenance, continuous integration releases
• Minimum 5-6 year experience in technical road mapping / field interaction/  cross functional team   work / project leadership and handling teams of 10-15 members
• Minimum experience of 10+ years in Java /  C# / Cloud technologies
• Minimum 1-2 yrs experience in People management
• Hands on development in Core Java technologies
• Strong experience in Object oriented implementation
• Strong experience of experience of working in global teams and handling multiple stake holders
• Exposure to Agile methodologies and tool chain

Business Expertise

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

Impact

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies

Applied Materials is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.