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Software Engineering Manager
Location: Sydney (NSW)
Start your career by making an impact and real connections with some of the most meaningful challenges around. When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our performance culture comprised of diverse leaders, thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who are changing the future.
Make the Best You.
Working at Honeywell is not just creating incredible things. You will collaborate with top minds, grow through continuous learning, and thrive in an environment that rewards and celebrates achievements.
Join Us and Make an Impact.
Honeywell Software Centre develops state-of-the-art networked building automation and digital video surveillance solutions on Microsoft platforms. Recognised for innovative, high-quality software, we leverage the latest development tools and methodologies while maintaining a strong commitment to quality systems.
As a Software Engineering Manager , you will lead a team of software engineers developing Honeywell’s building products, which are exported worldwide through Honeywell’s global businesses. You will drive engineering strategy, deliver high-quality solutions, and support customer growth through strong technical leadership and execution.
This role offers the opportunity to make a global impact by helping Honeywell maintain its position as a technology leader, delivering innovative solutions that improve quality of life worldwide. You will also play a key role in building and developing a high-performing, diverse team through talent acquisition, succession planning, employee engagement, retention, and fostering an inclusive workplace culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, lead, and maintain high-performing software engineering teams.
- Manage and mentor a team of engineers, ensuring delivery of high-quality products and solutions while promoting best practices and accountability.
- Develop and execute engineering strategies to support business growth and meet customer requirements.
- Define the technical vision and long-term roadmap across multiple teams, aligning with Honeywell’s overall strategy and product vision.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery and execution.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, including guidance on complex architectural design, code quality, and team development.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, productivity, and delivery outcomes.
- Act as the escalation point for production and customer issues, leading timely resolution and risk mitigation.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders across the business.
Partner closely with Product Managers and other teams to deliver the best outcomes while balancing business, technical, and operational constraints.
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Key Experience & Capabilities:
Essential Requirements
- 10-17 years of overall Software Engineering experience.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a Software Engineering Manager role.
- Proven experience managing teams of 10-15 engineers.
- Strong background in software product development, with a career progression from Software Developer/Software Engineer into Engineering Leadership roles.
- Demonstrated success leading and delivering complex software products across large codebases.
- Experience owning and delivering products end-to-end, from planning and sprint execution through to production release and ongoing support.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams, including Engineering, QA, Product, and Scrum teams.
- Strong web application and software product development experience.
- Strong technical credibility with the ability to actively engage in discussions relating to architecture, design, development practices, and technical strategy.
- Strong expertise in software architecture and design across both Windows and web-based applications.
- Strong background in .NET development.
- Experience with cloud technologies, microservices, containerization, and modern software architecture.
- Experience working within modern, product-focused software development organisation.
- Excellent leadership, mentoring, and people management capabilities, with the ability to develop and motivate high-performing engineering teams.
Highly Valued
- Knowledge of Building Management Systems (BMS), including Access Control, Fire, HVAC, and Video solutions.
- Understanding of Projects & Services business models within the building’s domain.
- Experience integrating third-party systems with BMS platforms.
- Cloud computing experience, preferably Microsoft Azure.
Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, preferably React.
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Who We Are
The Future Is What We Make It at Honeywell. From sustainable aviation fuel and life-saving healthcare sensors to collaborating on every NASA space mission since the 1950’s, over 100 years of innovation has always been driven by an investment in our people. Learn more about Honeywell: youtube.com/watch?v=CG-rmG0eKLk
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Our focus at Honeywell is innovation that drives business, improves the bottom line and creates solutions for our customers and communities around the world. There’s a lot for you to discover. Our solutions, our case studies, our #Futureshapers, and so much more.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer, and we support a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
We are proud to be recognised as a great place to work for women by WORK180 . Visit our WORK180 page to learn more about our commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace for all. https://work180.com/en-au/for-women/employer/honeywell
Honeywell is a proud advocate of the LGBTQ+ community, and we are celebrating Pride Month in the Pacific by launching Pride Connect, our LGBTQ+ employee network, we encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community to apply to join our team of future shapers.
We’re also proud to be recognised as an AWEI Bronze Employer and a Veteran Employment Supporter , further demonstrating our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion across all communities.
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Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.
