IoT Solutions Architecture Manager
Job description
Lead a regionally-focused team of Field engineers in Presales and Professional Services activities, helping customers with solution architecture, design and delivery for IoT and embedded Linux solutions. The role is remote, running a team in one of three Geos: Americas, EMEA or APAC.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Americas, EMEA, APAC
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a team of Field engineers, ranging from graduate to senior, in the areas of Presales and Professional Services
- Solve customer problems by promoting our technologies and being a trusted advisor
- Work remotely in a single major time zone
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive embedded Linux experience - Yocto or other
- Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
- Ability to manage a small team
- Experience with customer engagements
- Professional written and spoken English
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- An ability to communicate the business benefits of technology
- An humble learner and quick study
Nice to have
- RTOS experience
- Additional languages (both the programming and human kinds)
- Previous experience working in a remote-first, diverse, distributed company
Your team
IoT Field Engineering
Field Engineers are thought leaders helping customers solve hard problems, accomplished technologists taking a hands-on approach to embedded Linux strategy and delivery.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
Our Internet of Things mission is to enable companies to make fleets of very secure connected devices.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- open source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office based roles
- Founder-led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity
- Fairness
- Curiosity
- Accountability