Sr. Engineering Manager

Sr. Engineering Manager

Building the people that build the world.

With platforms in HVAC and Detection and Measurement, SPX Technologies builds innovative solutions that enable a safer, more efficient, sustainable world. Through our RiSE talent development framework, we Reach, Identify, Strengthen, and Engage our employees to support them in their continued development. We're a global company of problem solvers, collaborators, and innovators, and our businesses build solutions that impact the world.

As part of Detection and Measurement, Genfare is a leader in configurable fare collection systems in the public transit industry. By creating high quality equipment and payment systems to improve the rider experience, we empower equitable mobility and provide services to better connect communities.

SPX BACKGROUND

SPX Corporation (NYSE : SPXC) is, along with its subsidiaries, a diversified, global supplier of infrastructure equipment with scalable growth platforms in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), detection and measurement, and engineered solutions. SPX Corporation employs approximately 4,000 people worldwide, with operations in 17 countries and approximately $1.4 billion in annual revenue. We offer a wide array of highly engineered products with strong brands.

GENFARE BACKGROUND

Genfare is a fare collection technology provider in the detection and measurement segment within SPX Corporation. Our purpose is to simplify and positively impact the public transit rider experience with our agency partners.

Genfare strives to drive growth in public transportation use, improve operational efficiency, reduce travel congestion and improve each rider's daily commute. We are tackling several challenging trends occurring in the world, including : acceptance of all payment types, urbanization, digital transformation, real-time connectivity, end-to-end cybersecurity, and data analytics. Through collaboration with transit agencies and their partners, we provide fully integrated highly-efficient software, industry-leading hardware solutions, and services that enable fast, secure and accurate public transportation operating systems.

Working at Genfare opens doors to getting hands-on with cutting-edge fare collection technologies. Our culture is made up of team players who are driven and inspired problem solvers. At Genfare, you are part of a dynamic team that makes an impact on many of our nation's prominent transit agencies. Genfare welcomes you to discover the open opportunities on our team!

JOB SUMMARY

Genfare is hiring an Sr. Engineering Manager who is responsible for the architecture development for its Embedded Systems and SaaS platform. The role includes advocacy and support of Genfare's technology roadmap, identification and analysis of business drivers to derive useful context, analysis of the environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, and the development of strategies aligning with the business' goals.

This role interfaces across all business areas, acting as visionary to proactively assist in defining the direction for future projects. The role conceives solutions, builds consensus, then enables execution. They are involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff and requirements analysis, design and implementation. Additional responsibilities include the establishment of the overall architectural viewpoints across both hardware development and embedded stacks, oversight of standards and policies, business capabilities and needs, and existing architecture weaknesses and opportunities for systems.

The Engineering Manager role is to champion the best practices of hardware and embedded architecture and their unique application to public transit and next generation fare collection. They empower business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with longer-term strategic vision of the organization.

The role requires hands on software development experience to quickly evaluate architecture options by development proof of concepts and providing evaluation criteria and scoring to enable decision making. The roles also requires working with sales to identify and evaluate partners to integrate solutions and responding to RFP's.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction.
• Designs enterprise strategy, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Architect SaaS and Embedded System solutions in a cohesive architecture.
• Develop and drive domain-wide policies, standards, guidelines and procedures.
• Leads and facilitates the domain's architecture governance process.
• Reviews and approves recommendations to architectural standards at a domain level.
• Ensures compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic requirements.
• Contributes to the development of software and hardware delivery platforms with reusable components that can be orchestrated together into different methods for different business.
• Works closely with project management to ensure alignment of plans with what is being delivered.
• Analyzes the current architecture, identify weaknesses and opportunities for improvements.
• Identifies and when necessary, proposes variances to the architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Works with business leadership to help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.
• Review architectural compliance but identify exceptions to accommodate project needs.
• Keeps technology and service managers aware of key customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts.
• Leads the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and / or operational support activities.
• Provides recommendations based on business relevance, appropriate timing and deployment.
• Identifies the tools and components used within the domain based on the enterprise toolset and can define exceptions as warranted.
• Identifies organizational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support initiatives.
• Provides leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout their domain.
• Develops the solution viewpoint, in which the business, information and technology viewpoints are synthesized into solutions that deliver capabilities to the enterprise.
• Designs and leads the implementation of a solution architecture based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies.
• Facilitates and leads the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations.

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EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS