Sr. Manager, Software Engineering Leader - Global Employer Technology
About The Position
The Senior Manager of Engineering for the Global Employer Services Technology Center leads engineering talent, productivity, and capability across multiple product teams supporting our GlobalAdvantage (GA) platform. The role is a member of our product leadership team and works horizontally across teams to elevate and accelerate engineering outcomes. This leadership role has visibility across all technical domains and provides a direct hand in deciding where engineering talent will deliver the most value. The Engineering Manager owns the people side of delivery: productivity, capability, development, and deployment. This role is built on close partnership with product leads, architects, principal engineers, TPOs, and engineering leads. The outcomes driven by this role include identifying where the organization should invest in tooling, talent, skills development, and improved operating practices.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams across multiple product groups
- Direct, hands-on experience hiring, developing, managing the performance of, and allocating engineering talent
- Implementing and leveraging engineering productivity metrics to guide real decisions, not just report on activity
- Experience leading distributed and global engineering teams
- Strong influence skills for a matrixed organization, where product, architecture, delivery, and people responsibilities are distributed
- Enough technical depth to test assumptions, understand delivery constraints, and work as a credible partner to Architects and Principal Engineers
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires US Tax professionals to co-locate in person 2 – 3 days per week
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in engineering leadership, including direct management of engineering talent
- Experience with and direct responsibility for hiring, talent development, performance management, and allocation
- Demonstrated ability to build and use engineering productivity metrics to drive real decisions
- Proven track record leading distributed or global engineering teams
- Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes and drive accountability in a matrixed organization
- Validated executive-level communication and stakeholder-management skills
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
- Ability to travel 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- One of the following active accreditations obtained: Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA, Licensed Attorney, Enrolled Agent, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, SAFe Agilist
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on, firsthand experience with engineering tools and platforms, rather than experience gained only through research or oversight
- Experience working across both custom-built engineering platforms and commercial off-the-shelf platforms, such as Pega
- Experience applying AI-enabled development practices across the software development lifecycle
- Experience partnering with international delivery teams, including India-based teams
- One or more relevant technology certifications, for example: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified AI Practioner, AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, SAFE Lean Portfolio Manager
Responsibilities
- Assessing engineering productivity, capability, workload, and skill coverage across product groups through 1:1 conversations and software development lifecycle metrics
- Partnering with Product Owners and technical leaders to spot delivery trends and patterns, and proposing the development, allocation, process, or tooling improvements
- Building and running hiring, coaching, upskilling, and talent-allocation plans
- Tracking how these investments are improving delivery speed while maintaining quality, maintainability, and engineering standards
- Facilitating decisions across product teams as a partner to each team, with accountability for talent outcomes across the full portfolio
Benefits
- Discretionary annual incentive program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
