Software Development Leader

Job description

Alstom

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization and increasing demands for mobility.
With 6B€ of Sales and around 30,000 employees based in over 60 countries, Alstom develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.

Job Title & Purpose

Job Title

·  SDL - Software Development Leader

Purpose of the Job

·  He/she manages Software Development resources and activities on the project assigned
·  He/she is responsible for the delivery of each software baseline according to the QCD requirements

Position in the Organisation

Organisation Reporting

·  Hierarchical : Software Domain Leader (SWDL)
·  Functional  : Train Control Engineer (TCE)

Network & Links

·  Train Control Engineer
·  Sub-System Engineer (SSE)
·  Verification & Validation Leader
·  Train Validation Leader
·  Testing and Commissioning Engineer

Missions

Performance Measurement/KPI’s

·  Quality of his delivery (included sub-contractor delivery):
·   1st time quality rate > 90% (quality rate = modification validated OK / number of modification applied)
·  Respect of the delivery planning (included sub-contractor delivery):
·  100% on time delivery
·  Level of application of standard Methodologies and Processes
·  100%
·  Continuous improvement  or Return on Experience (RoE) management from previous projects:
·  0 missing RoE

Responsibilities

Accountable for :

·  Delivery of Train Software according to his / her Engineering Work Package.
·  Deployment and application of Train Control & Information Solutions development procedures, processes & design rules on his / her project.
·  Ensuring proper management and traceability of the hardware and software configuration - including design tools - (producing the release notes)
·  Ensure that the content of the baselines, of the release or delivery notes and of the Software Reference versions identifications are in conformity with the release.
·  Maintaining and Controlling KPIs for the project and reporting to S/W Domain Leader.
·  Accountable for Software Validation

Responsible for :

·  Monitoring, Controlling and consolidating the software development work-package. As such
·  Organizes, leads the work package reviews for the project he/she is in charge,
·  Manages the Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan,
·  Reports the target to project Train Control work package owner.
·  Integration of  Software Modules with various modules within TCMS subsystem like MPU, DDU etc &  in-charge of Configuration management for TCMS Software activities.
·  Ensuring the overall performance of executable code loaded on target, for the project that he / she is leading.
·  Initiating and following-up with action plans to solve issues and/or improve results in projects.
·  Establishing and sharing Return on Experience of his/her activities with Domain Leader and proposing improvements on Software Development process and tools defined by Domain Leader. 
·  Integration of software modules with various modules within TCMS subsystem like DDU, MPU etc.
·  Contributing to the Generation of Quality Plan.
·  Managing Sub-contractors.

Job Specifications

Knowledge & Experience

·  Hands-on development experience of software phases like requirement gathering, software development, hardware-software integration etc (minimum of 2 years’ experience in Railway or Automotive domain).
·  Experience in leading complete product life-cycle of at least 2 projects (minimum of 2 years’ experience)
·  Experience in developing software using model based development tools like  Matlab / Simulink, Control Build etc.
·  Good Working level Knowledge of network protocols like MVB, Ethernet, CAN, RS232, RS 485.
·  Managing work packages for sub-contractors.

Team size

·  Functional reports : he/she manages about 5 persons
·  Depending on the project size, his/her scope of accountability represents a workload of up to 15 full time equivalents

Innovation

·  Continuous improvement of software development techniques to optimise available computing resources

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization and increasing demands for mobility.
With 6B€ of Sales and around 30,000 employees based in over 60 countries, Alstom develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.