CMMI Manager (M/F) – Software Development Focus

The CMMI Manager leads and matures the organization’s CMMI program within a software development environment. This role ensures engineering processes align with CMMI standards, strengthens SDLC discipline, drives continuous improvement, and supports high‑quality software delivery. The position is central to maintaining certifications, optimizing development workflows, and enabling predictable, scalable software execution.

Core Responsibilities

• CMMI Program Leadership — Manage and evolve the organization’s CMMI framework for software development, ensuring alignment with CMMI‑DEV practices and engineering best‑in‑class standards.
• Software Process Improvement — Analyze SDLC workflows, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements across requirements, design, coding, testing, release, and maintenance processes.
• SDLC Governance — Establish and enforce process controls across Agile, hybrid, or waterfall development models to ensure consistency, predictability, and compliance.
• Quality Management System — Maintain a QMS tailored to software engineering, including configuration management, defect tracking, change control, and verification/validation processes.
• DevOps & Toolchain Alignment — Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, automation, and release processes align with CMMI expectations.
• Training & Coaching — Train engineering teams on CMMI practices, SDLC standards, documentation expectations, and quality processes.
• Documentation & Reporting — Maintain engineering process documentation, audit evidence, metrics dashboards, and compliance reports.
• Certification & Audits — Lead internal audits, prepare development teams for SCAMPI appraisals, and ensure ongoing certification readiness.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration — Work closely with engineering, product, DevOps, QA, and PMO teams to ensure processes support business and technical goals.
• Proposal & Technical Volume Support — Provide CMMI‑aligned process inputs for software‑related proposals, especially in government or regulated environments.
• Engineering Relationship Management — Serve as the bridge between Quality Management and software development teams, ensuring alignment and adoption.

• Attractive additional financial benefits such as holiday pay and health bonus
• Contribution to company pension scheme and occupational disability insurance
• Individual support from the Mühlbauer Academy through internal and external training programmes
• Employee events (e.g. Christmas party, visit to a folk festival and barbecue)
• International working environment - opportunities for temporary assignments abroad
• At the Roding site, you can also expect: low-cost catering in the company canteen, the company´s own fitness studio
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