Software Engineering Project Manager

Summary:

The role acts as the central interface between the individual SWE Software Project Managers, SWE Domain managers and key stakeholders outside the Software organization. 

The primary objective is to ensure an aligned and transparent overall software project picture across all contributing domains, identify cross-domain dependencies, risks and inconsistencies at an early stage, and drive their resolution with the responsible organizations. 

The role will act as Deputy Coordinator of the Project Management team across the North America and South America regions, ensuring alignment, operational continuity, workload balancing, and effective coordination among Project Managers

Scope:

Cross-functional coordination across all Software Engineering Domains, with interfaces to E/E Hardware, Vehicle/Program Planning, Quality and Management. 

Responsibilities:

• Consolidate input from the respective Software Project Managers into an integrated software project view, cross-domain. 
• Monitor overall software project progress and identify deviations from agreed targets. 
• Define common reporting principles, status criteria and escalation mechanisms together with the involved organizations. 
• Promote consistent project-management practices across software domains. 
• Prepare an integrated and management-ready software project status. 
• Consolidate project information from the different software domains into a consistent overall assessment. 
• Establish transparency regarding software scope, milestones, deliverables, maturity and key dependencies. 
• Identify, manage and escalate cross-domain dependencies, timing conflicts, gaps and inconsistencies. 
• Facilitate resolution of topics that cannot be solved within an individual software domain. 
• Identify cross-functional risks that may affect software or vehicle-program targets. 
• Escalate critical issues where resolution requires cross-organizational or management decisions. 
• Ensure clear ownership and follow-up of mitigation and recovery actions. 
• Establish and maintain effective cross-domain project-management routines. 
• Highlight deviations, risks, dependencies and decisions requiring management attention. 
• Coordinate corrective actions with the responsible Software Project Managers and functional organizations. 
• Ensure alignment of software activities with overall vehicle-program objectives and milestones (Product Development Process, PDP). 
• Act as the primary coordination interface between the software organization and relevant stakeholders 
• Support readiness assessments for key project milestones, gateways and management reviews (note: ahead of the official rating by Quality). 
• Prepare and coordinate decision proposals for cross-functional issues. 
• Ensure traceability and follow-up of major decisions and management actions. 
• Overall software program management 
  • Cross-domain coordination and dependency management 
  • Integrated project transparency 
  • Overall risk and issue management 
  • Management reporting and escalation 
  • Coordination with vehicle-level organizations 

Success Criteria / Expected Outcomes: 

• Software domains operate against a consistent set of project assumptions, milestones and priorities. 
• Cross-domain dependencies are identified early and actively managed. 
• Major software risks have clear ownership, mitigation actions and escalation paths. 
• Software planning is aligned with overall vehicle-program planning. 
• Management receives a concise, consistent and fact-based view of software project status. 
• Critical decisions are identified early, prepared appropriately and driven to closure. 
• Interfaces between Software, E/E Hardware, Planning and Quality operate effectively. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or Software related discipline
• A minimum of 10 years of overall related experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.  
• Ability to communicate effectively from working level to senior management including hosting executive management meetings 
• Ability to translate complex technical and project information into concise management messages.    
• Comfortable working in an international and multicultural environment.