Engineering Manager, EUC Product Division

Job Description

The End-User Computing Division empowers employees to do their best work from anywhere, through smart, seamless, and secure experiences.

As digital workspaces continue to evolve, we are designing and engineering VMware Anywhere Workspace, a holistic platform built on our industry-leading solutions for virtual apps, desktops, unified endpoint management and security. Our platform enables us to deliver upon our Autonomous Workspace vision, the next evolution of our offering that leverages data and artificial intelligence, to create workspaces that are self-configuring, self-healing, and self-securing. Together, our work is enabling organizations to optimize both employee experience and security, while modernizing IT and lowering operational risk.

Job Description: Engineering Manager, EUC Product Division

The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
You have an analytical mind and a passion for the craft of software engineering products along with a smart group of engineers,  love solving problems, and enjoy learning new things. Technologies come and go, but that excites you because of the endless possibilities it creates.  You are looking for an opportunity to work for a company whose software is utilized by almost every Fortune 500 company and significantly impacts every industry. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers’ business objectives.

What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?
Workspace ONE is a digital workspace platform that simply and securely delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating access control, application management, and multi-platform endpoint management. It is available as a cloud service or for on-premises deployment.
Our goal is to enable the Workspace One-Unified End Point Management platform to scale and manage billions of devices across various operating system platforms and device types. As part of the UEM Core Platform Team, you are expected to drive the Production Readiness of our new modernization architecture that is going through an adoption phase by the customers. This is like changing a bulb when the electricity is on and the light cannot be turned off. You will be owning engineering initiatives and championing a culture of high ownership within the team, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• During your first two months on the job, you will spend time on understanding the product architecture, existing product development tools, and release process. You will gain knowledge in the domain and the technology your team is already using and participate in the team’s scope and architectural discussions.
• In the next few months, you will drive the deliverables of 2 to 3 scrum teams. You will work with your peer managers and product management team to build the product backlog, scope the projects working with your team members, and make sure that they are delivered on time and with the expected quality.
• You will be a subject matter expert with deep expertise in the key components of our data pipeline and modernization platform
• You will participate in all phases of software development including requirements, design, coding, testing, debugging, and performance tuning.
• You will have to establish a reputation of leadership within a team and demonstrate influence within their area of expertise.
• You will create career plans with each team member that captures where they are, where they want to go, and the tangible steps that will help them address any gaps in their current skills and experience
• Your team is healthy as determined by key metrics of engagement, retention, work/life balance, and delivery.

What type of work will I be doing? What assignments or requirements* will I be performing on a regular basis? What are my deliverables?

Manage and lead a highly skilled engineering team and drive the design, implementation, and delivery.

• Take ownership of Product architecture, design, product quality, user experience, new areas of improvement security, and deliverables.
• Be hands-on with troubleshooting, debugging, and with usage of production tools for triaging issues.
• You will be responsible for daily engineering activities such as stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, architectural reviews, customer support, and release readiness.
• Communicate regularly with product management and release teams. As part of this team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams in multiple geographies to ensure product delivery and customer commitments are met on time.
• Bringing clarity where there is uncertainty, managing risk, and continuously delivering value.
• Conduct regular 1:1 with your direct reports, discussing short-term and long-term goals making sure your engineers have the direction/coaching needed to be successful.
• As a people manager, you will also be responsible for compensation and bonus planning and hiring and responsible for the growth of the team.
• You will be responsive to customer and product asks and escalations and help prioritize engineering work.
• Championing a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
This role will be reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering. Our team’s focus is on challenging the status quo by innovating but at the same time getting stuff done.
We believe in building trust among all our stakeholders and committing to making our customers successful.
The team is organized based on modules to define clear responsibility and accountability. At the same time teams are fluid enough to own up whatever is needed for the larger product to be successful. The team is transparent in communication and helps each other for the success of the overall team. We believe engineers are the greatest asset of our company and team.

Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer. Broadcom is firmly committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religious creed, national origin, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status, union membership, political affiliation, or other bases protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Broadcom will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own compensation or the compensation of another employee or applicant. Broadcom will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.