Senior Engineering Manager
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Senior Engineering Manager leading teams building CData’s AI-powered data connectivity platform. Owning delivery, technical direction, reliability, and engineering talent development.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and develop engineering teams through coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development
- Develop senior engineers, technical owners, and emerging leaders
- Empower technical owners to prototype, validate solutions, make technical decisions, and drive initiatives from discovery through implementation
- Hire, onboard, retain, and develop engineering talent
- Partner on team structure, capacity planning, resource allocation, and talent development
- Own execution and delivery across assigned engineering teams or a broader engineering area
- Improve operating practices, planning, backlog readiness, delivery tracking, and blocker resolution
- Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and systemic delivery issues
- Use streamlined workflows, automated reporting, and engineering and delivery metrics to improve execution
- Communicate progress, risks, resource needs, and delivery outcomes to Engineering leadership and stakeholders
- Provide technical leadership aligned with architecture, quality, reliability, and technical strategy
- Evaluate technical approaches and guide architecture and technical decision-making
- Maintain hands-on technical engagement to guide teams and make informed decisions
- Drive improvements to engineering practices, architecture, tooling, and ways of working
- Ensure operational ownership, sustainable on-call practices, staffing, and production accountability
- Establish and use SLOs, error budgets, and reliability measures
- Lead major incident coordination, decision-making, escalation, and stakeholder communication
- Drive postmortems and track action items through closure
- Partner with Product and cross-functional stakeholders on problem statements, business context, priorities, and success criteria
- Champion AI-assisted development for solution exploration, planning, ticket creation, development, and workflows
- Enable engineers to participate earlier in discovery, requirements, technical solutioning, and technical work definition
- Identify opportunities for AI, automation, and improved engineering practices to increase productivity
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on experience in enterprise or SaaS environments
- 4+ years of engineering management and/or people management experience
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams or initiatives spanning multiple teams and stakeholders
- Proven ownership of team execution and delivery, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk identification, and workflow improvement
- Experience partnering with senior Engineering and Product leadership
- Experience owning production services, including on-call, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems
- Experience in collaborative Product and Engineering environments involving discovery, requirements definition, technical solutioning, and delivery
- Strong technical judgment and ability to guide design decisions
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with cloud platform management and architecture, preferably Azure
- Strong Java/Kotlin development experience across backend services and microservices
- Experience leveraging or leading teams using AI-assisted software development tools and workflows
- Recent hands-on coding experience preferred
- Kubernetes experience and container orchestration familiarity a plus
- React framework experience a plus
- Experience designing and implementing microservice architectures for distributed systems and reliability a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Applicants must be US-based and legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future
- Compliance with CData information classification, HIPAA-related safeguards where applicable, access-control, data-handling, and incident-reporting requirements
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with company-paid insurance premiums
- Health Saving Account with company contribution
- Flexible Savings Account and Dependent Care FSA
- Generous 20-day PTO
- 11 paid holidays
- 401k with 100% company match up to 6% of contribution
- Remote-friendly, high-trust culture
- Professional development and learning opportunities aligned with career goals














