Executive Director, System Software Development

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Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking an Executive Director, Systems Software Development to lead the strategy, development, delivery, quality, productivity, and lifecycle support of the systems software technologies that enable Toshiba's global retail hardware platforms. This executive leader will direct a global, multi-level engineering organization responsible for Linux, SKY, and Android operating system solutions; Open Systems drivers; device drivers and utilities; diagnostics; hardware SDKs; system images and preloads; and supporting technologies required across Toshiba's retail hardware portfolio.

The Executive Director will establish the technical and organizational strategy for Systems Software Development while ensuring predictable execution across new product development, software releases, customer deployments, and lifecycle support. A key expectation is to transform engineering productivity through automation, CI/CD, modern software development practices, and the full implementation and adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software, systems software, embedded software, or related product development experience.
• 10+ years of technical and organizational leadership experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an executive or senior executive engineering leadership role, including responsibility for managers, senior technical leaders, and complex development organizations.
• Significant experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex commercial software products through the complete development lifecycle.
• Strong technical understanding of operating systems, device drivers, hardware/software interfaces, diagnostics, SDKs, and system-level software.
• Experience leading software development requiring close integration between hardware and software.
• Demonstrated ability to establish technology strategy and translate strategy into executable product and engineering roadmaps.
• Proven experience driving measurable improvements in engineering productivity, development cycle time, quality, and speed of execution.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and scaling development automation, automated testing, DevOps, and CI/CD practices across a software engineering organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading implementation and organizational adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities beyond experimentation and into production engineering workflows.
• Proven ability to establish measurable AI adoption, productivity, quality, and execution objectives and drive results.
• Experience leading critical customer and field issue resolution across multiple technical and business organizations.
• Experience managing complex development portfolios involving competing priorities, resource const

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DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore, we’re committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach, Foster Belonging, Unleash Opportunity, Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). We’re passionate about our customers in the retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER/PROTECTED VETERANS/INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)