Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage complex projects with managerial oversite
• Works across departments and stakeholder engagement
• Makes sure product goals and scope are understood by every team member
• Facilitates scrum events - daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos and retrospectives
• Onboards, develops and manages team of engineers
• Removes bottlenecks/impediments that impede progress
• Defines and drives product development process across the engineering team
• Reports project progress
• Collaborate with leads to maintain efficient product structure to ensure maximum performance
• Evaluates and summarizes weekly project report(s) for management, identifying successful completion of goals and deliverables and any follow-up action required
• Identify risks, mitigation strategies and dependencies. Ensure escalations are raised appropriately
• Ensure timely routing and tracking of work requests through the team
• Manage and maintain the document repository for the team
• Manage peer-level client relationships as the primary client contact for all project inquiries and needs
• Work closely with cross-departmental teams to identify areas for increased efficiencies and opportunities for standardization
• Ability to thrive in a complex environment consisting of geographically dispersed and highly matrixed teams ranging from 25 people
• Manage and ensure smooth cross-team communications
• Assist with process definition and adherence
  

Required Skills:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong ability to understand technical concepts and development process
• Experience in Agile methodologies
• Experience managing project teams of up to 25 people; demonstrated decision-making ability and desire to lead
• Strong client management skills; manage through challenging situations resulting in positive outcomes
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate concepts to a technical and non-technical audience
• Ability to articulate key concepts and issues in oral and written communication
• Strong analytical, organizational, and time management skills as well as an attention to detail
• Willingness to be available as project needs and timelines require
• High degree of personal integrity and accountability
• Ability to manage multiple projects and issues in parallel
• Ability to listen and concisely summarize and to make decisions in a timely manner
• Ability to proactively take initiative and motivate teams to produce results
• Strong desire and willingness to learn new concepts
  

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree Or Work Experience That Demonstrates Comparable Abilities

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with agile methodology
• Adapt at using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, and Confluence
  

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