Ecosystem Integration Engineering Manager

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• Mid-senior level
• Travel Required:
  
  11%-30%
• 31-Aug-2026

An Amazing Career Opportunity for an Ecosystem Integration Engineering Manager!!

Location:
Cardiff, UK / Krakow, Poland

Job

As Ecosystem Integration Engineering Manager, you will lead a new multi‑disciplinary engineering team — spanning hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud services — dedicated to the integration of IDT Reader BU products into broader RFID identification ecosystems. The team will undertake the engineering activities required to deliver holistic end‑to‑end system solutions to IDT customers and their end‑users. The scope extends well beyond reader product development and encompasses all the technical work needed for IDT Reader BU products to operate as part of comprehensive RFID‑based identification systems.

The ecosystems addressed by the team will fall into three broad categories: ecosystems or products originating from other Business Units or Business Areas within HID Global (for example, HID PACS 2.0 and next‑generation card credential technologies); emerging industry standards (for example, Aliro under the Connectivity Standards Alliance); and ecosystems that have yet to be defined or created. This role requires a leader who understands the full breadth of the RFID identification ecosystem — not only readers or credentials, but the full set of components that together deliver an end‑to‑end identification solution.

The team's objective will be to establish the technical framework, leveraging shared platforms across hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud services, that supports the integration of IDT Reader BU products into specific RFID identification ecosystems. As each ecosystem maturing, the resulting capability will be gradually transferred to the relevant business segment engineering team, allowing the Ecosystem Integration team to focus on the next set of emerging ecosystems.

You will work in close collaboration with a dedicated Product Manager for Ecosystem Strategy and Portfolio Management. The Product Management Team will define the product roadmap and portfolio direction to feed into the selected ecosystems. Under your leadership, the team will design the integration architecture required either to fit IDT Reader BU products into existing ecosystems or to support the creation of new ones, and will then deliver the technical execution required to implement the strategy.

You will also partner with the BU's product‑line engineering managers, Cloud Services, Credential Management, and adjacent Product Management functions, with the objective of establishing integration as a recognised discipline within the Reader BU. This role reports directly to the VP of Engineering, IDT, and will be based in Cardiff or Krakow.

• Translate the ecosystem roadmap defined by Product Management into engineering plans, integration architectures, and delivery commitments
• Establish reusable engineering frameworks and shared platforms across hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud services that support integration into specific RFID identification ecosystems
• Define reference architectures and integration patterns for use by the wider Reader BU and by the partner ecosystem
• Incorporate integration considerations into product design from the outset, ensuring that integration requirements inform hardware, firmware, middleware, apps, and cloud architecture decisions early in the development lifecycle

• Provide technical guidance across the team's five disciplines, covering hardware integration validation and reference designs; firmware integration of credentials, secure elements, and ecosystem protocols; middleware components that connect reader‑side firmware to higher‑level services; client and partner applications that consume the integration capability; and cloud services for key management, issuance, and data exchange
• Lead design reviews and trade‑off discussions that span the full end‑to‑end system, from reader hardware…