Engineering Manager - Collaboration at Novell

About the Company:

Corporate Snapshot Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Mass., with key facilities located in Provo, Utah and Nuremberg, Germany.

Novell employs 3,600 people around the globe.

Global Presence Almost 50 percent of Novell's employees are located outside of the U.S., in more than 100 offices around the world including regional and development offices located in Bangalore, India; Beijing; Bracknell, United Kingdom; Paris; Prague, Czech Republic; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo.

Trades on NASDAQ Stock Market Novell trades under the symbol NOVL.

Chief Executive Officer Novell's CEO is Ronald W. Hovsepian.

Chairman of the Board Novell's Non-Executive Chairman is Richard L. Crandall.

Year Founded Novell was founded in 1983.

Fiscal Year Sales For fiscal year 2009, Novell reported revenue of $862 million.

Novell Customers Novell serves customers in varied market segments, who highly value interactive business solutions in the data center, security and identity, resource management, workgroup, and desktop spaces.

Representative customers include BT, BMW, Casio, City of New York, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank AG, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., HSBC, Lufthansa, Office Depot, Postbank, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Qualcomm, Sesame Workshop, Siemens, State of California, UK National Health Service, US Navy, Wal-Mart, Western & Southern Financial Group and Wyndham Worldwide.

The ideal candidate:

We need an Engineering Manager to join our Collaboration team. This is a front-line, senior position working on a brand new breakout product in the enterprise collaboration and communication software space which leverages category-creating technologies like Google Wave and real-time web.

Only those experienced with managing very talented engineers to successful 1.0 launches in startup or startup-like environments should apply.

(Our attorneys want to remind you that:) This job description is for informational purposes, to describe the primary duties, skills and abilities necessary to meet the requirements of this position. This description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all requirements or essential functions; it is subject to change at any time.

Novell is an equal opportunity employer and an advocate for workforce diversity.

Job Description and responsibilities:

The right person for this job MUST HAVE the following attributes, proven experience, or capabilities:

• Building large-scale service offerings that are fundamentally fault-tolerant and scalable (especially Cloud/SaaS offerings).
• Be a good manager with proven ability to motivate and mentor highly-skilled engineers.
• Be a good technologist.
• Version 1.0 release of web-based software applications.
• Strong engineering processes & skills. Scrum master certification not required, but deep familiarity with Agile development is important.
• Passion around collaboration.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Familiar with agile/scrum methodologies and willing to work within that style of environment.
• Proven ability to successfully manage product development when directions/focus change rapidly.
• Quick-hitting, agile, and entrepreneurial.
• Experience in consumer-oriented software offerings, especially cloud/SaaS collaboration tools.
• Passion for software engineering and putting in the hours it takes to guide and mentor a dedicated team to success.

Some qualifications for the position include:

• Bachelors Degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Proven management skill for teams of between 8-15 engineers and QA engineers.
• Proven success in fast-paced environments developing and launching brand new software product offerings.
• Experience in collaboration and end-user computing software space.

To apply:

Apply online to requisition 2092 or, send an email to rmerrill [at] novell [dot] com.