Manager, Engineering

Vital Images

  • Waterloo, ON
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
Description :POSITION OVERVIEWAre you ready to lead, inspire, and drive impact? We’re seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to guide a dynamic agile software engineering team. In this role, you’ll own delivery outcomes, champion team performance, and nurture ongoing technical excellence.As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be at the heart of people leadership—empowering your team, fostering growth, and ensuring exceptional software quality. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, Quality, and other key partners to turn roadmap priorities into seamless, predictable results. Along the way, you’ll uphold high engineering standards and ensure compliance with our Quality Management System (QMS).If you thrive on execution accountability, building high-performing teams, and making a tangible difference in software quality, we want to hear from you!RESPONSIBILITIESDelivery Ownership
  • Own delivery commitments for the team and ensure predictable execution against quarterly plans
  • Translate roadmap priorities into executable plans with clear milestones
  • Manage scope, capacity, and risk trade-offs to protect delivery commitments
Technical Leadership
  • Guide team-level technical decisions and ensure sound engineering trade-offs
  • Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction and quality investments
  • Ensure long-term technical health of the team's codebase and systems
People Leadership & Development
  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and feedback conversations
  • Support career development, skill growth, and engagement for team members
  • Lead hiring, onboarding, and staffing decisions for the team
Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Quality, and other stakeholders to align on priorities
  • Manage trade-offs between scope, schedule, quality, and capacity
  • Resolve cross-functional issues that impact team delivery
Quality & Operational Excellence
  • Ensure adherence to engineering standards and QMS requirements
  • Drive improvements in automation, reliability, and operational practices
  • Promote continuous improvement in team processes and workflows
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND SKILLSRequired
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of experience in team leadership or people management
  • Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and Agile delivery methodologies
  • Ability to guide technical trade-offs without requiring hands-on coding
  • Strong communication and organizational skills
Preferred
  • Experience managing software engineers in a regulated or quality-managed environment (e.g., healthcare, medical devices)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD practices and modern software development workflows
  • Demonstrated success leading hiring, onboarding, and performance management processes
JOB COMPETENCIES
  • Leadership - Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
  • People Development - provides feedback and coaching, rewards hard work and risk taking, takes mentoring role, challenges and develops employees, accepts mistakes, provides visibility/opportunity.
  • Analytical Skills - Interprets and digests complex information, applies logic and sound critical thinking to astutely evaluate information, identifies flaws in reasoning but integrates good judgment in presenting findings, creates insightful and comprehensible reports, devises improvements or corrections to processes/procedures/plans based on strong analytical findings.
  • Creativity/Innovation - Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively.
  • Quality Work - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
  • Sense of Urgency - Prioritizes well, shows energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency in others, meets deadlines.
  • Teamwork - Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team leader to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a team atmosphere.
COMPANY OVERVIEWAt Canon Medical Informatics (formerly Vital Images, Inc.), what we do matters. This is at the heart of every product we develop, every service we provide, and especially each member of our team. As part of Canon Medical Systems Corporation, we lead the industry with the latest health imaging informatics solutions. Our products handle millions of medical images and health records a day across the world. Canon Medical Informatics experiences the best of both worlds with a dynamic and collaborative environment, casual culture, and agility of a mid-sized company, while having the support and resources of Canon Medical Systems Corporate, our parent company.Our offices are based in Minnetonka, Minnesota; Waterloo, Ontario; Copenhagen, Denmark; The Netherlands; and Beijing, China. We value our team’s innovation, enthusiasm, and dedication to help improve the lives of patients. Do you want to be part of a passionate team that believes what we do matters? Then a career with Canon Medical Informatics might be right for you.COMPANY VALUESUnity, Courage, Tenacity, Teamwork, and ExcellenceWHAT WE OFFER YOUCanon Medical Informatics offers a dynamic workplace, competitive compensation package, and room for learning and growth in our organization. This is an environment in which things move quickly and you’ll have the opportunity to wear many hats. We have a casual dress code, offer flexible work hours and actively foster work-life balance, because anything else simply isn’t sustainable. Our Minnetonka, MN office is located about 12 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Our office is near several walking paths and restaurants that are a quick drive away. Our team loves what we do and has fun doing it together. We look forward to receiving an application from you.Canon Medical Informatics is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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