Management and staff in Kofax’s Software Engineering job family help the company to build and improve new and/or existing software products and their applications that we sell to our customers. Responsibilities of the Lead, Engineering position include:
- Act as the project go-to-person for project status updates and/or other inquiries related to the team’s deliverables
- Responsible for ensuring tasks within projects are completed on-time, and with high quality
- Contribute to team member identification/assignment (works with manager and other department managers)
- Play a lead role in project scoping (works with manager, other leaders and stakeholders)
- Responsible for completing regular reporting and project status updates
- Responsible for facilitating and coordinating interaction, communication, review and decision-making with a multitude of departments outside of immediate team
- Responsible for team members within a single function (i.e. within the Software Engineering job family) who are direct reports. This position may also have cross-functional direct reports (such as from the Software Engineering and Quality Assurance job families) upon prior approval of the EVP, Products.
Lead, Engineering staff must be capable of performing all of the following departmental tasks:
- Contributing to product ideas and innovation
- Evaluating product roadmaps (working with Product Management and User Experience, among other internal partners) to determine design and programming development requirements to meet customer needs (includes evaluating existing products and applications to enhance these and/or designing new products and applications)
- Conducting research, where appropriate and needed, to solve specific design problems
- Creating product and/or applications’ architecture and design documentation to specify engineering development requirements
- Writing/developing code for new, existing or enhanced software products and applications
- Working with various internal partners (such as Quality Assurance) to test new or enhanced products and their applications
- Participating in cross-functional build/configuration activities to ensure overall effective and efficient new or enhanced engineering design
- Contributing to downstream business activities such as technical publications and other technical communications’ tool development to ensure streamlined and effective end-user use of Kofax software products and their applications
- Ensuring new or updated releases are completed on-time, on-target, on-budget and without compromise to quality
- Supporting other internal and external partners/stakeholders/customers, as and when appropriate, in responding to technical inquiries
- Staying abreast of industry and field developments; remaining current in the latest technologies and functionalities, as well as ever-evolving needs of customers and their customers
WHILE THE JOB DESCRIPTION DESCRIBES WHAT IS ANTICIPATED AS THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION, THE JOB REQUIREMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED UPON ANY CHANGING NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE BUSINESS.
Required Skills
Required Experience
Candidates for this position should hold the following qualifications, have the following experience, and be able to demonstrate the following competencies to be considered as a suitable applicant. Please note that except where specified as “preferred,” or as a “plus,” all points listed below are considered minimum requirements.
- Graduate Degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred
- Has 7-10 years’ relevant technical experience
- Demonstrable abilities to effectively drive projects from conception through to successful completion
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KOFAX, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/D/V