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Job Description

At Pinnacle, our vision is to make the world reliable, one customer at a time.

What does Reliability mean to you? For Pinnacle, reliability means our customers can trust that their facilities operate when and how they are supposed to. With a focus on data, Pinnacle drives to increase safety, efficiency, and evolve facilities to an optimized state through reliability. Pinnacle serves a variety of Industries, including:

Oil & Gas
Food & Beverage
Specialty & Petrochemical
Pharmaceutical
Mining
Agriculture & Fertilizer
Lumber
Water & Wastewater


Rooted in exploration, we constantly seek innovative ways to enhance industrial reliability. By fostering team development and embracing growth, we deliver added value to customers, creating a lasting global impact. This commitment drives us to cultivate bold future leaders, continuously reshaping the understanding of reliability. 

Innovation resides at the heart of our core values—excellence, impact, and growth—propelling us toward our vision.

Why Advance Your Career at Pinnacle?

Our people are our driving force, vital in realizing our goal of a more reliable world. We prioritize fostering professional growth, offering comprehensive onboarding, training, leadership programs, and continuous learning opportunities. At Pinnacle, you'll expand your horizons across disciplines, collaborating with diverse teams, and participating in the development of leading-edge solutions. Curiosity, engagement, and impact are celebrated traits here. We strive for excellence in everything and seek people who share this drive to join our team. Our collaborative work environment encourages employees to develop the tools and techniques that redefine what reliability means to the industry. 

Job Duties

• Build and lead a world class software development team
  • Identify the need for resources; work with India Recruiter to fill the positions as appropriate
  • Conduct QPCIs for Software Dev team, ensuring that each member has appropriate measures and targets in pace, to deliver projects on time, according to Pinnacle expectations
• Manage all the activities of the India software development group, including schedules, attendance, work product, quality, efficiency any all other aspects relating to team management
• Provide day to day guidance to team members to encourage work productivity and quality
• Ensures the timeline is followed by the software development team, in line with the US team (leadership)
• Participates in any product design sessions
• Monitors, evaluates and ensures the completion of all tasks and projects
• Monitors the status of developing software
• Analyze software requirements
• Ensure that team is focused on quality and contributing to the long term maintainability of the software
• Work closely with US Development, DevOps and QA team to understand the business demands and ensure that message is translated appropriately to the India team

Accountabilities/Results/Success for this role   

• Ensure that products are developed on time, with Pinnacle standard quality and within cost utilizing the Software Development best practices set out by leadership

Measures

Cycle Time, Team Velocity, Test Coverage, Code Quality  

Required Qualifications/Skills/Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in software or computer engineering
• 10+ years experience working in a technology team with progressive growth
• 3+ years leading a team; accountable for the success of the team
• Strong knowledge of Azure and Azure DevOps
• Advanced knowledge of Agile Scrum
• Enterprise software lifecycle experience
• Exceptional and proven leadership and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications/Software knowledge

• Enterprise SaaS Development
• Certified Scrum Master PSM1

Benefits

The Complete You

• Group Term Life, healthcare coverage, maternity leave, AD&D, PTD, PPD, TTD, 9 paid festival holidays, and paid time off 

Company Celebrations 

• Quarterly town hall and fellowships, length of service awards where employees receive additional paid time off and bonuses to cover travel expenses for anniversary milestone trips (5, 10, and 15 years). 

Empowering You for Success

• Opportunity to participate in customer-focused project management groups (PODs) that help facilitate collaboration and project support, access to company technology stack of Microsoft Office 365 Suite and MS Teams, comprehensive onboarding, on-demand training, regular lunch and learns, supervisor and accountability training, leadership development programs, continuous learning opportunities, and more.

About Pinnacle

Headquartered in Pasadena, Texas, Pinnacle is focused on helping industrial facilities improve reliability performance, resulting in increased production, optimized spend, and improved process safety and environmental impact. Pinnacle bridges the gap between data and reliability decisions by combining reliability engineering expertise with data science and technology. Pinnacle is privately held and has been consistently recognized for its growth by Inc. Magazine, the Houston Business Journal, and more. 

Working Environment  

• Conditions may include working inside and/or outside.  May work around office machinery with moving parts and moving objects.  Working near radiant and electrical energy.  Working closely with others or working alone.  Working extended or irregular hours and travelling by all possible modes of transportation.

Physical Job Requirements

• Ability to walk, stand, sit, kneel, push, stoop, reach above the shoulder, grasp, pull, bend repeatedly, climb stairs, identify colors, hear with aid, see, write, count, read, speak, analyze, lift and carry under 30 lbs., and perceive depth.

Tools and PPE Requirements

• Equipment (machines, tools, devices) used in performing the essential job function include but not limited to computers and related equipment, calculators, copiers, fax machines, and telephone. 

Limitations and Disclaimer

This job description describes the general job duties, accountabilities and physical requirements associates with the position; it is not an exhaustive list of all the duties, accountabilities, or skills required for the position.

The general job duties, accountabilities and physical requirements associated with the position are subject to modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some physical requirements may exclude individuals who pose a threat or risk to the health or safety to themselves or others.

This job description neither states nor implies that the listed general job duties, accountabilities, and physical requirements associated with the position are the only tasks expected of an employee. An employee is also required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related tasks requested by their supervisor and not in violation of any applicable laws, regulations, or rules.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities. To perform this job successfully, an employee must possess the abilities and aptitude to perform each duty, accountability, and physical requirement proficiently.