Sr. Manager, Engineering
About The Position
The Sr. Manager, Engineering leads a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. The role establishes the strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline needed to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. It combines people and execution leadership with sufficient technical depth to guide major decisions, resolve complex risks, improve engineering practices, and support modernization. The Sr. Manager partners with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership teams to align priorities, remove obstacles, and deliver outcomes supporting Stellarus’ mission and technology strategy. The position is part of a leadership model focused on developing leaders, supporting employee growth, building high-performing teams, achieving results responsibly, and fostering continuous learning. This is a hybrid role. For most teams, the workplace model calls for office attendance two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need. The company may require additional office presence as business needs change. The role is based in an office environment with work-from-home office or desk work. Activity is sedentary for most of the workday. External hires must pass a background check and drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered consistent with applicable laws.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or a high school diploma/GED plus four years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Eight years of progressive technology experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, enterprise engineering, engineering management, technical delivery, or related disciplines.
- Four years of prior people management experience directly supervising, coaching, and evaluating technical teams.
- Experience leading multiple teams, platforms, products, or technology domains, with accountability for delivery, people leadership, operational outcomes, and stakeholder management.
- Strong knowledge of modern software engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, automation, AI enablement, APIs, secure development, and technology lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated ability to shape engineering practices, improve consistency across teams, and drive adoption of CI/CD, observability, secure development, operational reliability, and scalable architecture practices.
- Experience modernizing enterprise platforms or applications, reducing technical debt, improving operational resilience, and maintaining secure, supportable technologies.
- Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams, prioritize competing demands, and interact effectively with all levels of management.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and investment needs for senior and cross-functional audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with budget management, vendor management, contracts, investment planning, resource planning, and technology roadmaps.
- Experience supporting large-scale technology delivery in complex, regulated, healthcare, cloud-native, or platform-based environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead an engineering team delivering secure, scalable, reliable technology solutions.
- Define and execute engineering roadmaps, delivery priorities, operational plans, and team objectives aligned with business, product, platform, and enterprise goals.
- Establish and improve operating models, governance, engineering standards, KPIs, dashboards, SLAs/SLOs, and executive reporting on delivery health, platform maturity, operational performance, and business value.
- Build and sustain high-performing engineering organizations through hiring, workforce planning, coaching, performance management, leadership development, and succession planning.
- Guide senior technical talent in resolving complex delivery, architecture, reliability, security, scalability, integration, and operational issues.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, and vendor stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and drive cross-functional execution.
- Drive modernization, technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, automation, AI adoption, developer productivity, and practical transformation.
- Ensure teams consistently apply secure development, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, observability, operational reliability, testability, maintainability, and scalable system design practices.
- Own delivery status and organizational performance across multiple workstreams, ensuring transparency, accountability, risk visibility, and timely stakeholder communication.
- Manage budgets, resource plans, vendor relationships, licensing, contracts, investment plans, and technology roadmaps where applicable.
- Influence strategic decisions and advise leaders on delivery risks, technical tradeoffs, operational needs, resource constraints, and opportunities to improve scalability, quality, and business impact.
- Foster accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, pragmatic decision-making, innovation, continuous learning, and measurable improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
