Lead Engineering Manager

About This Role

As a Lead Engineering Manager, you will provide hands-on leadership to shape and communicate a strategic vision for modern software engineering. You will guide teams in delivering robust, high-quality solutions, driving simplification, scalability, and efficiency across multiple high-impact products. This role focuses on inspiring and developing engineering talent while partnering with cross-functional teams to align with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to defining, communicating, and continuously refining a compelling engineering vision that translates business objectives into actionable strategies
• Ensure engineering teams are aligned and engaged, collaborating closely with product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security teams
• Champion the integrated engineering strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring organizational awareness of objectives, KPIs, maturity, and compliance
• Drive achievement of engineering KPIs, including system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability
• Contribute hands-on to design and code, mentor engineers, and resolve technical challenges
• Mentor and develop full-stack engineering talent in modern practices such as frontend, microservices, cloud-native design, AI/ML/GenAI, data engineering, and DevSecOps
• Embrace iterative and incremental product development, prioritizing rapid learning and adaptation
• Maintain a relentless focus on solving the most critical customer challenges, aligning technical solutions with business outcomes
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, coding practices, and quality benchmarks to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions
• Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, building collaborative relationships and driving momentum

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related discipline
• Excellent software engineering and product architecture/design foundation with deep understanding of BCD, diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, code instrumentation, and messaging patterns
• 15+ years of proven experience with programming languages, technologies, and frameworks (Python, C#, Java, Node.js, Golang, .NET Core, XML/JSON, REST/SOAP/GraphQL, SQL/NoSQL, SSO/MFA, unit testing frameworks)
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native integration services on one or more hyper-scalers (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• 5+ years of experience with defining and driving engineering KPIs, implementing engineering maturity models, and driving continuous improvement
• 3+ years of experience with AI/ML
• Deep understanding of methodologies and tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, CAST
• Proven ability to drive adoption of modern engineering practices at scale, including cross-functional collaboration
• Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and developing diverse engineering teams
• Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance requirements in enterprise software engineering
• Demonstrated experience aligning engineering initiatives with business and customer value, delivering measurable outcomes in agile environments
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required.
• 15+ years of proven experience with programming languages, technologies, and frameworks, 8+ years hands-on experience with cloud-native integration services, 5+ years with defining and driving engineering KPIs, and 3+ years with AI/ML.

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree (e.g., MS)
• Experience with the latest GenAI models

Skills

* Required skills