Software Manager: Juniper Networks

Software Manager

Location: Westford , MA

Summary

The JUNOS forwarding team is seeking a first-line, technical manager with an excellent track record leading software teams and projects. Candidate should have strong communication, technical, and project management skills. Candidate must be motivated and a self-starter.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing an eight-member team focused on delivering JUNOS forwarding software for multiple platforms. This requires assessing product requirements, creating and tracking detailed schedules, cooperating and coordinating with peers in other teams and geographies, and communicating status to management. Additional responsibilities include monitoring and assigning defects, handling team and technology issues, anticipating problems and forming backup plans, hiring, maintaining and building the team’s technical excellence.

Requirements

Candidate must have 8+ years of experience working in embedded networking systems and 3+ years of experience managing embedded networking software teams and a desire to remain technical. Strong knowledge of networking and related hardware needed. While forwarding knowledge is not required, candidate will need to learn the forwarding technology in use. Candidate must have a strong record delivering software projects on-time and with high quality. This position requires a fair amount of interaction with geographically distributed teams so candidate must have excellent communication skills. Ability to discuss fluently issues related to software and networking technology is required.