Sr. Manager, Engineering- Mars Veterinary Health

Mars Veterinary Health•Vancouver, WA

1d•$119,200 - $227,500•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Manager, Engineering is the senior engineering leader accountable for people, technology, delivery, and release quality capabilities for an assigned Mars Veterinary Health product portfolio. The role leads Application Engineers and Release Quality Managers, directs dedicated vendor engineering capacity, and establishes the operating model, technical direction, and delivery accountability needed to execute product strategy. It aligns engineering capacity, architecture, quality, and execution across employee and vendor resources, and builds leadership capability and succession depth within the engineering team. The role partners with product, architecture, business, and engineering leaders to translate product priorities into executable technology plans and measurable outcomes. It is responsible for portfolio delivery planning, technical standards and governance, vendor oversight, continuous improvement, and reporting portfolio performance, delivery health, technical strategy, and investment needs to senior stakeholders. The position is based at an MVH North America hub location in Vancouver, Washington. The job posting lists salary ranges of $145,600–$227,500 and $119,200–$200,219. Compensation depends on education, experience, credentials, role, level, location, and market competitiveness. Benefits include competitive pay and time off, health and wellness coverage, family support, financial and protection benefits, professional development, and discounts and perks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical experience required.
At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
At least 4 years in formal people-management and engineering-leadership roles, with accountability for multiple teams, technical delivery, and organizational outcomes.
Demonstrated experience leading blended employee and vendor engineering organizations and partnering with senior product and business leaders.
Working knowledge of C#/.NET and TypeScript/Angular sufficient to evaluate technical designs and delivery quality.
Knowledge of Azure application services, including AKS, APIM, Key Vault, and SQL MI.
Experience with Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD and work-tracking tools.
Experience with Git-based source control and pull request review.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Experience leading multiple engineering teams or functional leaders within a blended delivery organization.
Experience designing and scaling vendor engagement models across engineering disciplines.
Experience supporting clinical digital products, care-delivery workflows, or other measurable clinical and operational outcomes in a regulated or multi-business-unit enterprise environment.
Experience with Datadog and/or Elastic for application monitoring and log investigation.
Experience with GitHub Advanced Security findings, including code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency alerts.
Experience with Python or PowerShell for scripting and automation.
Experience with Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop Application Engineers and Release Quality Managers, including hiring, performance management, career development, and workload and capacity planning.
Conduct performance reviews, make compensation recommendations, set goals, and provide associate support.
Build and maintain an engineering capacity plan that aligns capabilities and vendor capacity with product roadmap demand.
Set technical direction, quality standards, and delivery expectations for dedicated vendor application engineers.
Coordinate vendor engineer staffing, onboarding, and offboarding with vendor account or delivery management.
Work with Application Engineers and Release Quality Managers to technically review and accept delivered work within their areas.
Partner with product leadership and peer pillar leads to translate roadmap priorities into a delivery plan.
Ensure feature delivery aligns with the pillar’s architecture vision and technical roadmap, and integrate testing, deployment, and hypercare into delivery planning.
Represent Product Engineering performance, delivery health, technical strategy, and investment needs for the assigned portfolio to the Director, Growth and Clinical Product Engineering, and other senior stakeholders.
Surface systemic risks, resolve cross-team blockers, and recommend changes to priorities, capacity, or operating practices.
Own continuous improvement of delivery practices, technical standards, review processes, and the vendor engagement model.
Identify and address technical debt, delivery bottlenecks, and quality trends across engineering work.
Partner with engineering leaders across Growth and Clinical product portfolios to align technical standards, operating practices, shared capabilities, and resource strategies while maintaining accountability for assigned outcomes.
Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
Perform other job duties as assigned.