Engineering Group Manager in Wuppertal, Deutschland

• Lead systems engineering activities from concept through launch.
• Ensure development of high-quality requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical specifications.
• Drive engineering quality and technical rigor across assigned programs.
• Review engineering deliverables and provide coaching to technical leads and engineers.
• Support root cause analysis and complex technical issue resolution.
• Monitor platform reuse opportunities and drive standardization across projects.
• Ensure robust traceability between customer requirements, system requirements, architecture, software, and validation artifacts.
• Ensure engineering commitments are delivered on time, within scope, and with appropriate quality.
• Support program planning, estimation, resource allocation, and risk management.
• Monitor engineering capacity, workload balancing, and utilization.
• Escalate program risks and resource constraints proactively.
• Support launch readiness and issue management activities.
• Ensure compliance with ASPICE, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, and internal development processes.
• Drive process improvements across systems and software development activities.
• Promote adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools and automation opportunities.
• Track and improve engineering KPIs related to quality, productivity, reuse, and delivery.

Your Background

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of automotive product development experience.
• 3+ years of technical leadership or people management experience.
• Experience working with requirements management and systems engineering processes.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting customer-facing programs.
• Experience with ADAS, autonomous systems, software-defined vehicles, or embedded control systems.
• ASPICE experience.
• Functional Safety (ISO 26262) experience.
• Cybersecurity experience.
• Polarion, Jira, and DOORS experience.
• Global engineering team leadership experience.
• Quote leadership and resource planning experience.