Software Engineer Manager (Production Automation)

Role summary

We are looking for a Software Team Manager to lead, coach, and grow a cross-functional software engineering team delivering automation and production software solutions. This role combines people leadership, delivery ownership, technical judgment, and stakeholder management across global teams.

About MiTek

MiTek is a global construction technology company that delivers software, services, engineered products, and

automated solutions to support a more integrated Design-Make-Build approach. MiTek Vietnam is a large

engineering and services hub supporting customers and teams across multiple global regions.

Project / Team context

• Lead a software team supporting automation products and production software used in the residential construction ecosystem.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Customer Support, and global engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence across Agile delivery, quality ownership, secure coding, maintainability, operational readiness, and continuous improvement

What you will do

• People leadership: Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and QA members through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, career development, and capability planning.
• Delivery management: Own team execution plans, sprint commitments, dependencies, risks, and delivery predictability while maintaining sustainable team performance.
• Technical leadership: Guide technical discussions, architecture alignment, design reviews, code quality practices, and engineering standards without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Work with global Product, Architecture, Operations, QA, and customer-facing teams to clarify priorities, communicate status, and resolve cross-team issues.
• Quality and operational excellence: Promote strong practices in testing, CI/CD, observability, secure development, documentation, incident learning, and production readiness.
• Process improvement: Continuously improve Agile ceremonies, planning discipline, estimation, engineering metrics, risk management, and team operating model.
• Talent contribution: Support hiring, onboarding, knowledge sharing, succession planning, and team engagement activities for MiTek Vietnam software teams.

Your skills and experience

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a team lead, engineering manager, software manager, or equivalent leadership role.
• Ability to connect multiple data sources and systems
• Understanding of Digital Thread concepts
• Knowledge of simulation, automated testing, software engineering, machine telemetry, and data pipelines
• Ability to drive customer-facing data solutions and cross-functional collaboration
• Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices, SDLC, Agile/Scrum or Kanban, software quality, release management, and production support.
• Good English communication skills; B2 CEFR or equivalent is preferred for daily collaboration with international teams.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to balance technical quality, delivery outcomes, customer value, and team sustainability.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional teams that include developers, QA engineers, business analysts, and/or DevOps engineers.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, cloud delivery, software security practices, and engineering metrics.
• Familiarity with automation, digital manufacturing, CAD/BIM, production systems, industrial applications, or construction technology domains.
• Experience managing distributed teams and collaborating with stakeholders in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, or other global regions.
• Demonstrated ability to improve engineering processes, reduce delivery risk, mentor future leaders, and scale team capability.

Leadership competencies we value

Ownership

• Takes responsibility for people, delivery, quality, and commitments; follows through with transparency.

Collaboration

• Builds strong relationships across Product, Engineering, QA, Operations, and global stakeholder groups.

Continuous improvement

• Uses metrics, retrospectives, customer feedbac…