Senior Engineering Manager - Machine Learning

REA GROUP • Richmond, VA

81d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Engineering Manager at REA Group, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence and delivery success across your squads. You will be responsible for delivering on the product roadmap by enhancing technical solutions, ensuring engineering quality, and leading a team of individual contributors to achieve organisational goals. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and delivery leadership to foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance environment. You will oversee multiple squads and operate at a larger scale in a highly complex environment with Machine Learning and Data Scientists. Your responsibilities will include defining the tech strategy for the business unit, overseeing the technical design of solutions, maintaining systems health, and leading engineering excellence through best practices.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in leading and motivating multiple engineering teams in an agile environment.
• Advanced technical expertise in the data science/machine learning field.
• Proven ability to craft robust end to end solutions and manage intricate production systems with proficiency.
• Demonstrated experience in building strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring seamless collaboration among diverse groups.
• Strong ability to navigate multiple priorities and foster continuous improvement.
• Champion delivery success and innovation by leading with integrity.
• Proactively address challenges and foster a culture of constant enhancement.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and define the tech strategy for the business unit.
• Involvement in building the product strategy, vision & OKRs through representing the technical aspects.
• Oversee and execute the technical strategy of the team.
• Lead the technical design of solutions within your team.
• Maintain systems health and engineering compliance.
• Oversee the technical operation of systems your team owns.
• Contribute to product discovery through tech direction & feasibility assessments.
• Lead engineering excellence through best practices, including design patterns, clean code, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and unit testing.
• Lead adoption of REA standards & platforms and align with tech strategy in your team.
• Contribute the tech component of GIF business cases.
• Support other teams that use or contribute to your teams' systems & service.
• Review mission critical PRs.
• Guide and manage individual contributors to foster career development and team cohesion.
• Deliver the product roadmap, tracking and communicating progress.
• Provide forecasts and timelines contributing to product roadmaps.

Benefits

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working.
• Flexible leave options including birthday leave and purchase additional leave.
• Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers.
• Volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving.
• Hackdays to bring big ideas to life.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees