Director, Infrastructure and Systems R&D

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Full Time Irving, TX, US

2 days ago Requisition

DIRECTOR, INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEMS R&D

About Us

EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. is a subsidiary of JVCKENWOOD Corporation, a leading provider of P25 communications solutions for first responders in public safety and public service, the federal government, and industrial organizations. Our products are marketed under the EFJohnson and KENWOOD brands.

EFJohnson provides wireless communications products and systems for public safety, commercial, and government customers. We design, manufacture, and market conventional and trunked radio systems, land mobile radio repeaters , and mobile and portable radios, including Project 25 digital radio products.

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As a Director, Infrastructure and Systems
, you’ll lead a team of highly skilled and talented software development and test engineers responsible for the architecture and development of major components of a patented and highly scalable distributed all‑IP based network solution for wireless communications in the land mobile radio industry. In addition, you will manage the field support organization to ensure all critical customer infrastructure software issues are resolved in a timely manner and that the field support organization continually improves their technical acumen of the system.

This position will be responsible and accountable for achieving the established team objectives including creating and managing the R&D budget. In addition, the leader will follow the development life‑cycle processes and procedures for this group and deliver large‑scale projects on time with a high degree of quality. You will work directly with Product Management, Marketing and Sales on the roadmaps, strategic plans and budgets to plan subsequent products and technologies and forecast product availability.

You will actively communicate and coordinate with all other engineering teams, providing constructive inputs and timely feedback for the subscriber engineering, system design, implementation and all other stakeholders . This role is on-site in our Irving, TX office.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and execute on the development life‑cycle processes and procedures for this group, managing complex multi‑component release planning and delivering high quality systems releases to the customer base.
• Manage a tightly integrated development process comprising of developers, testers and technicians with a focus on maximizing quality and minimizing time to market.
• Manage the field support organization to ensure all critical customer infrastructure software issues are resolved in a timely manner and that the field support organization improves their technical acumen of the system.
• Drive low‑level hands‑on development tasks and drive broad longer‑term architecture while innovating at a rapid pace.
• Drive an ownership culture across the entire team and management.
• Be the technical resource for the individual functional leaders and managers, providing guidance, direction, and resources to support the achievement of organizational objectives.
• Establish the guidelines and roadmap for the evolution of the current distributed architecture into a software defined network and provide the direction, leadership, and strategy to the development teams for delivering this strategy.
• Interface with multiple groups within the implementation, operations, systems, bids & proposals organization as well as various program teams that consume the solution provided by the infrastructure…