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General Motors Scrum Manager in Markham, Ontario
Job Description
Work Arrangement: Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Markham or Oshawa office three times per week, at minimum.
The Team
The Low Voltage Infrastructure Team within the Embedded Platform Systems & Infrastructure (EPSI) organization is focused on the development of systems and controls centered around on-vehicle low voltage power generation, energy storage, power management, distribution, and consumption control. There is no better time to join this newly formed team as we evolve to the next generation of low voltage power architectures and consumption control strategies in SDV2.0!
The Role
As a Scrum Manager for the Power Distribution solution of the Low Voltage Power System (LVPS) at GM, you will be a key engineering product solution driver in the context for the Power Distribution domain within the Low Voltage Infrastructure (LVI) organization. In the role of Scrum Manager, you will be collaborating with several other areas of engineering and the business (Engineering Stakeholders, Customers and the Product Management Team) to breakdown technical solutions into workable and deliverable items.
This role requires the highest level of leadership and technical background. The controls software and diagnostics in this domain are essential elements of the LVPS for meeting the challenging range/fuel economy targets and preserving low voltage battery charge and ensuring optimum low voltage power distribution.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities)
Perform as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Scrum Team’s content.
Collaborate with the Power Distribution & the Electric Power Teams in LVPS to refine the Program Vision, Roadmap and Program Backlog.
Collaborate with System Architect to determine Enablers and coordinate Enabler Rollout.
Coordinate dependencies with other Scrum Managers when deliverables are dependent on other Teams for completion, attending PO synchronizations as needed.
Refine, maintain and prioritize the Team Backlog.
Work closely with Scrum Team Leader to ascertain team capacity.
Translate product and feature strategy into User Stories, assisting Scrum Team with Story definition, estimation and sequencing for Program Increment Planning events.
Design and resolve complex production features with controls design.
Assure full lifecycle of the assigned domains, including requirements, system design, development, review, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Work day-to-day with the Scrum Teams clarifying requirements, constantly communicating and gaining alignment around Feature or Product Strategy.
Provide clearly defined acceptance criteria to enable Behavior Driven (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD), have persistent acceptance tests.
Provide guidance for System Demonstration Strategy during Story creation (unit, integration and system level test strategy), provide guidance and coaching to scrum team members.
Verify Stories are testable and can be used to generate testing objectives.
Ensure validation and testing of features occurs prior to End User Acceptance.
Ensure the technical integrity of the product is maintained and enable the solution to address program priorities (Features and Enablers), thoroughly addressing anomalies and other quality concerns in a timely manner.
Accept each story and participate in Team Demonstrations and Retrospectives to validate quality, providing feedback to team and improving team processes.
Support peripheral meetings with Product Team Members, FSAs, SSLEs, and Systems Engineers.
Be the single point contact and lead on PRTSs driving the root causing efforts and implementation of the solution while reporting out to stakeholders.
Support Testable Functionality Roll-Out Plan (TFRP) definition.
Additional Job Description
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline); however, a degree in Computer, Software or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
5+ years of automotive engineering experience related to embedded controls, requirements development, architecture development, and/or systems engineering.
Development experience with Software Defined Vehicle electrical architecture.
Knowledge and experience in design, development, implementation, and debugging software in C (embedded C).
People Skills:
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Exceptional collaboration and teamwork; ability to lead cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects and assignments with a high level of autonomy and accountability for results.
Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt quickly to new domains and technologies.
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Master's degree in Engineering with a focus on Controls, Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, and/or Systems Engineering.
Experience in or development of vehicle low voltage power systems
Experience developing feature or ECU activation and deactivation strategies.
Proficiency in Agile processes.
Experience executing production programs through launch.
Record of innovation in systems, subsystems, or feature design: patents, awards, or publications.
Experience with JIRA, JIRA Align, Git Ecosystem, DOORs, and DNG.
Troubleshoot code to resolve design deficiencies and develop solutions to resolve them.
Experience with embedded compiler, linker, debugging tools, and software such as Lauterbach, ETAS INCA, NeoVi Vehicle Spy.
Knowledge and experience with CAN, LIN, or Ethernet communications protocol.
Knowledge and experience with Python.
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
Benefits Overview
The goal of the General Motors of Canada total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan currently includes the following benefits, in addition to many others:
Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave;
Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits;
Life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement;
GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family and friends.
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