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WATTS Head of Engineering, Watts Digital in North Andover, Massachusetts
Watts Water family of companies designs, manufactures, and commercializes high-quality, innovative products and solutions that promote the comfort and safety of people and the quality, conservation and control of water used in commercial, residential, industrial and municipal applications. Based in North Andover, MA Watts Water Technologies, Inc. is traded on the NY Stock Exchange under the symbol “WTS”. Watts, with revenues of approximately $1.8 billion, has operations in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa with over 4600 employees. Watts objective is to increase sales and earnings by expanding into new markets, making key acquisitions and reducing manufacturing costs through the One Watts Performance System.
Today, Watts through its various brands and subsidiaries, is a global provider of plumbing, heating and water quality solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Our extensive portfolio of products and leading brands range from highly technical to fast moving shelf goods and allows us to be present in the following categories: Plumbing & Flow Control, Water Quality & Conditioning, Drainage & Water Reuse, HVAC, and Municipal Waterworks. We strive to be the best long-term partner for installers, specifiers, distributors and OEM customers.
Watts is leading the digitalization of the water management space, developing smart & connected products and scaling the adoption of digital solutions that deliver lasting value to customers. The newly formed Watts Digital team spearheads the development of cutting-edge customer-facing solutions within Watts in coordination with business units, focusing on delivering actionable and trusted insights to customers through intuitive solutions that continuously evolve to meet ever-changing user needs.
Summary:
As a Head of Engineering, you will work with leadership teams across Watts to define our technology architecture vision and roadmap, deliver the suite of customer-facing applications, build a high-performing engineering culture and team, and manage alignment across Watts’ enterprise stakeholders and external partners. You will lead multiple teams of software engineers as well as R&D efforts to evolve the IoT architecture at Watts (sensing platform, on premise communications).
Technical Strategy, Vision and Architecture
Defining and evolving the Northstar architecture for customer-facing solutions across Watts, across the stack
Leading strategic technological roadmaps and initiatives that align Watts Digital, BUs, and other organizational units
Evangelizing technical vision and strategy both internally and externally
Communicating technology decisions and outcomes to key stakeholders (e.g., sponsors, ecosystem partners, product teams)
Advising the team on selection of modern technologies including languages, open-source and third-party tools to increase efficiency and improve technology and product offerings
Planning and allocating resources appropriately between innovation and mature solutions
Building and managing external partnerships with software development vendors, integration partners, etc.
Execution, Product Delivery and Results
Collaborating with the Watts Digital Product teams and enterprise BUs to define product and technology roadmaps and to deliver new products and features
Continuously rebalance product, service, technical features, which maximize value and minimize effort to focus on the highest returning initiatives for business and customer
Improving the development process, with a focus on automating regular high-quality releases
Defining, tracking, and delivering key productivity metrics and continually work towards improving team efficiency and engineering output
Championing a culture of learning, measurement, accountability, and quality
BUs, Operations, IT, Information Security and Infrastructure
Partnering with hardware BUs to deliver software-based solutions in support of BU objectives and roadmaps
Partnering with IT and operations in support of enterprise IT strategy
Supporting the organization with the internal productivity and collaboration tools across physical offices and remote environments
Continuing to evolve security practices and controls to meet the needs of protecting customer data and systems
Maintaining and optimizing the budget of infrastructure and software tools
Recruiting and Building a High Performing Engineering Organization
Working with the recruiting team to build a pipeline of diverse engineers to support the growth of the engineering organization
Evolving how Watts Digital organizes engineering and defining career paths
Creating rotational opportunities to distribute skills across Watts and develop the next set of leaders from within
Elevating the engineering brand through published work and speaking at events
You Have:
Startup and enterprise SaaS engineering senior leadership experience driving business results
10+ years architecting software solutions and leading product development teams
Managed a portfolio of mature and at scale digital products and platforms
Defined and launched at least 2 products from inception, preferably in the B2B segment
Experience designing, building and scaling IOT and/or data analytics platforms
Designing and developing microservice-based architectures and data engineering pipelines
Designing data analytics use cases and familiarity with time-series databases, PowerBI, SQL, python, and open-source data and analytics tools
Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Azure Cloud Infrastructure
Software engineering practices (e.g. Agile software development, test driven development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, etc.)
Deep understanding with Data Engineering & Advanced Analytics
Familiarity with Hardware and Network engineering
Ability to stand up a remote organization, hire & coach engineering talent
Experience dealing with challenging priorities in a fast-paced environment
Shown experience engaging and influencing senior executives and managing cross-organizational stakeholders
Experience establishing and managing external vendor relationships
An entrepreneurial spirit that is flexible, experimental, and resourceful
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Watts is committed to equal employment opportunity. We follow a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic disposition or carrier status, marital status, military or veteran status, minorities, or any other category protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, Watts will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.
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Watts Water is a global leader of quality water solutions for residential, industrial, municipal, and commercial settings. Our family of brands (https://www.watts.com/our-story/brands) offers some of the most varied product lines in the world, with world-class, water-related solutions focused on:
Drainage and Water Reuse
HVAC and Hot Water
Plumbing and Flow Control
Water Quality and Rainwater Harvesting
We are a $1.9 billion global company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a presence in five (5) continents and twenty-four (24) countries, and an employee population that speaks over eighteen (18) languages. As a people-first company, we prize enriching and caring for all who work here not only through words but through actions. This includes executing our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, and providing our employees with meaningful career growth opportunities, a positive and safe work environment, and affirmation that they are heard, valued, and respected.We are proud to be an organization that believes that a safer world is a more sustainable world – a belief that we proudly reflect in each of our technologies and solutions and our environmental and social commitments, such as our partnership with Planet Water Foundation.
Learn more about the Watts way, here (https://www.watts.com/our-story/brands) .
Specialties
Plumbing, HVAC, Water Quality, and Gas
Headquarters
Americas & Corporate Headquarters: North Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) Headquarters: Shanghai, China
Company Size
About 5,000 employees
Website
http://www.watts.com/
http://www.wattsindustries.com/
http://www.wattsasia.com/
Industry
Machinery
Founded
1874