Senior Engineering Manager

The role of the Supply Chain Management (SCM)-Senior Engineering Manager

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the SCM team, you will be a key driver and enabler in a fundamental shift in how we design and build software throughout their lifecycle.

The ideal candidate has experience building and leading development teams and can help drive best practices in the software delivery lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Own deliverables end to end per plan working with multiple stakeholders
• Manage, mentor, and lead a team of 2 Scrum Teams.
• Run the scrum ceremonies and build Agile Teams
• Empower, challenge, and coach team members to grow their impact as individual technical leaders by providing them with context and continuous feedback
• Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration, and data driven - consensus-based decision-making.
• Mentor and lead other engineers on the team to deliver features and enhancements.
• Defines and owns high level architecture designs and technology roadmap with the associated release goals.
• Defines and help develops POCs for new and upcoming strategic technology solutions.
• Defines team wide engineering best practices and mechanisms to measure the adoption.
• Drives technical architecture conversations with platform teams.
• Plan for team capacity and help drive recruitment of high-quality colleagues.
• Represent the team in internal/external technology events and conferences.
• Define and drive engineering metrics adoption across the teams.

Key Tech Skills

• 12+ years of experience with any UI stack (React, Angular and/or Vue) and .Net
• Experience analysing, building, and implementing open-source technologies
• Experience in driving UX improvements, efficient UI development and metrics driven improvements.
• Experience with datastores (SQL, NOSQL, etc),API and event-based technologies (Kafka)
• Strong understanding of microservice based architectures and how to achieve composability
• Experience of Test-Driven Development approaches
• Experience delivering solutions that operate with large volumes of data and strict non-functional requirements around performance, flexibility, and scalability.
• Experience delivering solutions leveraging at least one leading cloud platform
• Broad knowledge of programming languages, operating system principles, and software development best practices.

Who you are

• Experience building and leading high-performant remote engineering teams with high degrees of psychological safety. Proactively gives and receives feedback; is not afraid to have difficult conversations.
• Ability to seek different perspectives and relevant context to effectively navigate ambiguity.
• Ability to foster an inclusive team culture that enables team members of all backgrounds to succeed and thrive.
• Experience developing and reviewing complex technical requirements and translating them into actionable tasks for engineers.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and been a main POC for their team across a large organization.
• Experience driving end-to-end architectural discussions across teams and organizations.
• Experience in helping leading development lifecycle process, best practices and operating distributed cloud-based micro services
• Experience of designing systems or components on large projects (5M).
• Strong preference for Open-Source experience.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to drive conversations across multiple teams to a conclusion