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R&D Program Manager 80-100%

If you really want to make a difference – make it with us

We realise what matters: Our Building Technologies division makes buildings, cities and infrastructures smarter and more energy-efficient. As the leading technology partner worldwide we offer solutions and services for personal safety, building safety and automation, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, and energy management. Building Technology has its international headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Create the future together with approximately 30 000 colleagues and help us to make the world a little better every day.

The aim of Building Technologies is to be the world’s leading smart building company. We enable our customers to use the power of data to create perfect locations. To support this vision, we create services and solutions using lean and agile software development principles to continuously deliver value to our internal and external customers.

We are searching for an experienced servant leader to join our R&D team as a Program Manager. In this role, you would be the Release Train Engineer (RTE) for an Agile Release Train (ART) focused on developing innovative cloud-based software services. You would be responsible for guiding the ART to the successful delivery of value in a large and complex environment. Additionally, you would be the management representative responsible for the agile program with respect to the handling of contracts and the resources necessary for the success of the ART.

Your new responsibilities

• Facilitating agile ceremonies such as PI planning / "Inspect and Adapt" workshops


• Facilitating periodic synchronization meetings, including the Scrum of Scrum / ART synchronization at program level


• Collaborating with product and portfolio management, product owners, software architects and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment


• Tracking and reporting of ART KPI metrics and partnering with teams to develop and implement improvement plans as necessary


• Assisting the teams in identifying and removing blockers and acting as the escalation point for issues that cannot be resolved within the ART


• Being an internal advocate for Lean and Agile / SAFe principles


• Purchase order management and coordination with external suppliers


• Budget management and forecasting for all resources required for the ART

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related field


• 3 to 5 years as Release Train Engineer or R&D Project Lead or R&D Program Manager in an agile environment, preferably in a B2B industry at headquarters level


• HVAC knowledge would be an advantage


• Strong technical background and experience in leading teams to produce high quality software


• Ability to lead by influence in an environment with different stakeholders and partners


• Ability and passion to deliver customer value


• Experience in a large, multi-cultural, international environment and working with distributed teams


• Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English; knowledge of German would be desirable

Who and where we are

Find out why Siemens is chosen every year as one of the most popular employers in Switzerland and get a first impression of a new working environment and the people who could be your new work colleagues.

• Siemens in Zug


• Siemens as an employer

Your application

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We look forward to receiving your online application. If you have any questions about this position, please contact our recruiting team at hr-recruiting.ch@siemens.com

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