Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager for Ecosystem Strategy and Portfolio Management. Product Management will define the product roadmap and portfolio priorities; under your leadership, the team will design the integration architecture and deliver the technical execution
• Maintain strong alignment with the IDT Reader BU's architects and with architects across other HID Global Business Areas, ensuring that integration architectures are consistent with the wider technical strategy and informed by cross-BA design knowledge
• Partner with peer Engineering Managers across the Reader BU, Credential Management, Cloud Services, and adjacent Product Management functions to align roadmaps and integration commitments
• Represent the perspective of customer integrators within Engineering, identifying integration challenges early and translating them into actionable engineering work

Delivery, Quality, and Compliance

• Implement a predictable delivery cadence aligned with the Reader BU's broader operating rhythm
• Comply with the Product Development tools and processes facilitated by HID's APMO (Agile Program Management Office), ensuring that the team adopts and follows the corporate engineering governance model
• Define and report on the metrics relevant to an integration team, including partner certification velocity, integration defect escape rate, time to onboard a new ecosystem partner, and reference-architecture adoption
• Ensure that the team's deliverables meet HID's quality, security, and compliance standards across all of the team's disciplines
• Define the integration testing strategy, including end-to-end test environments, reference customer deployments, and continuous validation against partner platforms
• Partner with QA and Security teams on threat modelling and certification activities for ecosystem-facing components

Team Establishment, Leadership, and Capability Transfer

• Define the structure, remit, and operating model of the new engineering team within the IDT Reader BU
• Recruit, develop, and retain engineers across the team's five disciplines (hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud services), with particular attention to candidates who bring cross disciplinary breadth
• Recognise that part of the team may be cross-allocated with other Business Units or Business Areas within HID Global, and put in place working practices that accommodate this shared resourcing
• Establish team practices that support accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
• Mentor and develop the team, with ongoing focus on capability growth across all five disciplines
• Plan and execute the gradual transfer of mature integration capabilities to the relevant business segment engineering teams as each ecosystem stabilizes

Your Experience and Background include:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 10+ years of professional engineering experience across the broader product stack, including at least 3+ years managing or leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Demonstrated experience building or significantly growing a new engineering team, including defining its structure, recruiting its engineers, and establishing its working practices. This is particularly important given that the team described in this role is to be created from the outset
• Demonstrated breadth across the RFID identification ecosystem. The role requires fluency across multiple facets — readers, credentials, key management, issuance, mobile credentials, middleware, and data services — rather than deep expertise in only one area
• Direct delivery experience spanning multiple of the team's disciplines (hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud services) is highly valued
• Demonstrated experience in system or solution architecture responsibilities for projects implementing smartcard, NFC, or RFID technologies
• Strong working knowledge of identification, access control, RFID, or adjacent IoT domains
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards and with the HID Credentials product portfolio is a significant advantage
• Hands-on familiarity with one or more contemporary credentialing ecosystems, such as physical access control, mobile credentials, or mobile identification, is a significant advantage
• Demonstrated track record of defining reference architectures and integration patterns that have been adopted by other engineering teams or external partners

Additional Information

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