Senior Engineering Manager
6 - 10 years
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Full-time
Hybrid
1 month ago
About the role
About You:
The Senior Engineering Manager is a strategic and operational leader responsible for driving high-performing engineering teams, enabling technical excellence, and delivering high-impact products and platforms. This role partners closely with Product, Architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders to define technical strategy, mature engineering practices, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate is both a strong people manager and a seasoned technologist who can elevate engineering capabilities across the organization.
Responsibilities:
People Leadership & Team Development
· Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and individual contributors across multiple teams.
· Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
· Drive career growth frameworks, performance management, and succession planning.
· Foster an inclusive, high-trust environment that supports well-being and sustained productivity.
Technical Leadership & Execution
· Provide strategic technical direction in partnership with architecture and product leadership.
· Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and high-quality systems aligned with long-term business goals.
· Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, observability, automation, and DevOps maturity.
· Lead efforts to modernize technology, simplify architecture, and reduce technical debt.
Operational Excellence
· Establish and monitor KPIs for engineering performance, quality, and reliability.
· Lead continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization.
· Optimize team structures, resource allocations, and processes for scale.
· Oversee vendor or contract engineering relationships when relevant.
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration
· Act as a senior partner to Product, Design, Data, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
· Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly to executive leadership.
· Ensure engineering alignment with organizational goals and compliance requirements.
· Additional duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably assigned from time to time as operational needs evolve.
· Periodically work outside standard business hours, such as during infrastructure upgrades and/or releases.
Must Haves:
· 8+ years of engineering experience with 3–5 years leading managers or senior technical leads.
· Proven track record scaling engineering teams and delivering complex, high-impact software systems.
· Strong technical foundation in software architecture, cloud technologies, and modern development practices.
· Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with strategic leadership.
· Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
· Experience in a matrix organization with both direct and dotted-line structures.
· Background working in Agile environments—Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models.
· Familiarity with platform engineering, developer experience tooling, or productivity enablement.
The Senior Engineering Manager is a strategic and operational leader responsible for driving high-performing engineering teams, enabling technical excellence, and delivering high-impact products and platforms. This role partners closely with Product, Architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders to define technical strategy, mature engineering practices, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate is both a strong people manager and a seasoned technologist who can elevate engineering capabilities across the organization.
Responsibilities:
People Leadership & Team Development
· Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and individual contributors across multiple teams.
· Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
· Drive career growth frameworks, performance management, and succession planning.
· Foster an inclusive, high-trust environment that supports well-being and sustained productivity.
Technical Leadership & Execution
· Provide strategic technical direction in partnership with architecture and product leadership.
· Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and high-quality systems aligned with long-term business goals.
· Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, observability, automation, and DevOps maturity.
· Lead efforts to modernize technology, simplify architecture, and reduce technical debt.
Operational Excellence
· Establish and monitor KPIs for engineering performance, quality, and reliability.
· Lead continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization.
· Optimize team structures, resource allocations, and processes for scale.
· Oversee vendor or contract engineering relationships when relevant.
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration
· Act as a senior partner to Product, Design, Data, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
· Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly to executive leadership.
· Ensure engineering alignment with organizational goals and compliance requirements.
· Additional duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably assigned from time to time as operational needs evolve.
· Periodically work outside standard business hours, such as during infrastructure upgrades and/or releases.
Must Haves:
· 8+ years of engineering experience with 3–5 years leading managers or senior technical leads.
· Proven track record scaling engineering teams and delivering complex, high-impact software systems.
· Strong technical foundation in software architecture, cloud technologies, and modern development practices.
· Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with strategic leadership.
· Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
· Experience in a matrix organization with both direct and dotted-line structures.
· Background working in Agile environments—Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models.
· Familiarity with platform engineering, developer experience tooling, or productivity enablement.
Skills
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