Job Description

Why join us?

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It\xe2\x80\x99s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of MillerKnoll means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

This position will be focused on owning and driving the visualization specification tool (CET) development team based out of India and any other locations in the future, supporting solution delivery for Herman Miller Business partners worldwide. This will be a business partner, application development, and process-centric role that requires high-performing individuals with exposure to multiple technologies, strong analytical backgrounds, and knowledge of manufacturing and services domains.

This role is not limited to geographical boundaries as it aims to support multi-national Herman Miller business capabilities around the globe.

Key Responsibilities shall Include

Delivery management

• Work closely with Scrum Masters, POs, SA, QA, and Data Lead to ensure everyone is on the same page about prioritization and delivery expectations.
• Work with various scrum teams and the Systems Architect to understand technology gaps, challenges, and issues and then engage the team to address these and ensure they are not encountered again.

Team Performance

• Ensure optimal team performance by measuring velocity, doing course corrections, establishing metrics to measure individual output, scrum team output etc.
• Being part of the code submit review process and establishing benchmarks for quality and productivity.
• Ensuring the team is sufficiently trained and skilled in their respective area of work/tasks by taking help from the Systems Architect and senior developer resources as necessary.

Resource Allocation and Optimization

• Monitor team bandwidth, and resource allocations and ensure team members are being utilized optimally to reduce wastage of effort and manpower.
• If there is a genuine overload of work, then coordinate with the team manager to understand the need and get the necessary approvals to hire an additional headcount.
• Manage the nominated individuals who can support the team in training and mentoring other members, in interviewing and code reviews, and ensure their efforts are tracked efficiently and recorded for reporting and transparency purposes and to acknowledge and recognize contributors periodically.
• Participate in the hiring process and ensure quality individuals are brought into the team and are retained with continuous engagement and their utilization is in the best possible way.

Individual Contributor

• As a working team lead, you will also participate in development activities and ensure quality product development and ownership of work areas as would be expected from a senior development professional. You should be able to reserve anywhere between 60-70% of your daily work time for software development and individual contribution activities and where necessary you should take the help of the Product Technology manager to help you with other tasks.

Essential experience

• A minimum hands-on experience of 4 years or above on the CET platform and your current title as Senior Visualization Specification Developer.
• Overall industry experience of 10 years or above.
• Experience with recruiting, managing, and driving high-performing CET developers.
• SCRUM certification and experience being a Scrum Master.
• Experience in the field of visualization technology

Ideal candidate

• An individual who has attention to detail.
• With good technical skills to fit into the individual contributor role as well.
• With good communication and articulation skills.
• A strong team player with good feedback from existing stakeholders and team members within the project.
• A graduate / post-graduate in mechanical engineering or any relevant domain.
• Ability to work individually or within a team environment and having good leadership instincts & qualities.
• Willing to work in UK / US shift on a need basis.
• Ability to identify/understand the business problem and develop a solution for it.
• Ability to stay focused on defined tasks even when there are no immediate results or there are distractions.
• Willing to experiment and learn on your own and not get discouraged when something doesn\xe2\x80\x99t work right the first time.
• Ability to take ownership of multiple projects/tasks and priorities in a healthy work environment.
• Solid understanding of System development, design, testing, implementation, and support process.
• Ability to take direction, constructive criticism, and work to specified deadlines.
• Adhere to processes and procedures defined for the role, the team, and the organization.
• A good track record of live systems in the production environment with some proof of quality of delivery.

Herman Miller is an equal opportunity employer.

Who We Hire?

Simply put, we hire everyone. MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

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