Manager II, Innovation and Technology Management

Schneider Electric•Boston, MA

About The Position

Leads a platform and developer experience engineering team responsible for improving engineering effectiveness and maintaining the health, reliability, and security of shared application infrastructure and capabilities. Partners with engineers and stakeholders across the organization to understand needs, identify opportunities, and prioritize work that maximizes business impact and engineering productivity. Owns discovery and prioritization across the team's backlog, balances competing needs, evaluates trade-offs, and directs the team's day-to-day work while removing obstacles to success. Provides technical leadership by helping engineers translate needs into well-defined technical work, guiding technical decisions, and promoting engineering best practices. Balances new capabilities and developer experience improvements with operational responsibilities and long-term platform health. Identifies opportunities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, reliability, and security, and advocates for the tools, systems, and investments needed to achieve those outcomes. Serves as the primary engineering point of contact for the team's work and communicates priorities, progress, risks, and opportunities to engineering leadership and organizational stakeholders. Coaches and develops engineers through mentoring, regular feedback, career guidance, and performance reviews. Fosters ownership, effective collaboration across the organization, and ongoing technical and professional growth.

Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading technical initiatives and delivering software in an agile environment.
5+ years of experience managing and developing software engineers, including performance coaching, career development, and performance reviews.
Experience leading a platform, enablement, developer experience, or infrastructure engineering team, with responsibility for technical direction and delivery.
Experience discovering and prioritizing a broad engineering backlog, identifying needs and opportunities, balancing priorities, and making trade-offs based on business impact and effort.
Experience partnering with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to understand pain points and unmet needs and translate them into actionable, prioritized work.
Strong technical leadership, including guiding technical decisions, promoting engineering best practices, and delivering reliable, maintainable, and secure software and infrastructure.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including influencing decisions, building alignment, and explaining technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, including navigating ambiguity, balancing planned improvements with operational needs, and driving successful outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with development technologies such as Python, Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Docker, AWS CDK, and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure, such as Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Aurora, and OpenSearch.
Experience maintaining and evolving legacy applications, with architectural judgment about optimizing or refactoring existing systems versus extracting services while balancing maintainability, scalability, reliability, and operational complexity.
Experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development workflows, ideally including autonomous, cloud-based coding agents.

Responsibilities

Lead a platform and developer experience engineering team to improve engineering effectiveness and maintain shared application infrastructure and capabilities.
Partner with engineers and stakeholders to understand needs and identify improvement opportunities.
Own discovery and prioritization across the team's backlog, balancing competing needs and evaluating trade-offs based on business impact and engineering productivity.
Plan and direct the team's day-to-day work and remove obstacles.
Guide technical decisions and promote engineering best practices.
Balance delivery of new capabilities and developer experience improvements with operational responsibilities and long-term platform health.
Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, reliability, and security, and advocate for the necessary tools, systems, and investments.
Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for the team's work; communicate priorities, progress, risks, and opportunities to leadership and stakeholders.
Coach and develop engineers through mentoring, feedback, career guidance, and performance reviews.
Foster ownership, collaboration, and continued technical and professional growth among engineers.