Engineering Manager (Systems & Process Transformation) (HYBRID)

C-4 Analytics • Wakefield, MA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a high-caliber Engineering Manager to serve as the operational heartbeat of our engineering teams. This is a unique leadership challenge: you will work with an incumbent team to transition our culture toward in-house excellence, discipline, and high-velocity delivery. You are not a "task master"; you are a process architect. Your goal is to build a self-organizing ecosystem where developers identify their own bottlenecks, experiment with solutions ("fail fast"), and take collective ownership of a high-quality product grounded in clear, well-defined specifications and shared understanding of requirements. As the Engineering Manager, you will be the bridge between technical execution and business strategy. You will partner closely with our Lead Software Engineer to balance aggressive product roadmaps with the necessary technical rigor required to stabilize and scale a fragile codebase.

Requirements

• Systems Thinker: You look at teams and processes as a system that can be optimized. You value throughput and efficiency but understand they are products of a healthy culture. You understand how engineering systems interact with underlying data platforms and dependencies
• Agile Purist: You understand that Agile is about iterative value and failing fast to learn faster, not just standing in a circle once a day.
• Master of Influence: You can lead a team you didn't "hire" (yet), earning the respect of veteran contractors through clear communication and a commitment to removing their blockers.
• Strategically Minded: You are comfortable managing "up" to leadership and "across" to product, ensuring engineering is seen as a value-driver, not a cost center.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and safeguard a modern Software Development Lifecycle.
• Lead the team to a state of maturity where they proactively identify areas for improvement and execute on action items to level up the collective.
• Translate the needs of the Product team and executive leadership into actionable engineering priorities, negotiating with the Lead Engineer to ensure technical debt and feature work are balanced.
• Coordinate effectively across distributed and external engineering teams, ensuring alignment, accountability, and consistent execution standards.
• Ensure work is grounded in clear, well-defined specifications, reducing ambiguity and improving delivery consistency across teams.
• Leverage AI as a "first-class citizen" in your daily workflow—from predictive sprint planning and automated reporting to identifying team throughput bottlenecks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed