About this role
Come see what you're missing! Our employees work on the world's most advanced electronics – from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we're innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: "We Protect Those Who Protect Us®." Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems. We are looking for a senior director to lead the Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions (CEMA) Software Engineering organization. This highly visible, senior director level position is responsible for all aspects of Software Engineering's performance in support of the business area, including the application of software engineering processes, tools, talent acquisition, talent development, and program performance. You will lead a large organization through a digital transformation that embraces model-based engineering, DevSecOps, and agile development to deliver cutting-edge software that disrupts adversary communication and radar capabilities. • Lead and grow a best-in-class team of software engineers that deliver excellent results. • Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through the standardization of software development processes, best practices, software engineering reuse, and continuous learning. • Partner with other business area leaders to ensure business objectives and strategy are achieved. • Work closely with the Product Line Engineering Leads and Discipline Managers to staff near-term project demand while defining and executing robust talent management plans. • Attract, retain, and develop a healthy pipeline of future technical leaders and software engineering talent across the organization to support the business needs. • Identify, maintain, and develop key software skills (e.g., distributed systems, embedded systems) required to meet business objectives in support of multi-year strategy. • Successfully drive continuous process improvement initiatives to increase efficiencies, meet cost takeout objectives, support execution needs, promote agility, and ensure adoption within the organization. • Establish goals and standards of performance, create budgets, staffing plans, and short and long-term strategic roadmaps/plans for the software organization. • Administer performance, compensation, and recognition programs in alignment with business needs, company values, and budgets. • Understand industry trends and best practices in software development to ensure BAE Systems develops and maintains the capabilities required to provide technical discriminators. • Provide technical leadership by leveraging and applying modern software development technologies—specifically driving the implementation of DevSecOps pipelines to integrate security, testing, and deployment into a continuous delivery workflow. • Promote the adoption of the latest Generative AI Technologies • Serve as a thought leader and champion for Agile and DevSecOps best practices. • Perform duties as assigned to support shifting business dynamics.