Engineering Manager

Description

Key Job Functions/Requirements

• Oversees their team's end-to-end ownership of solutions, which includes assisting in the development of test automation and other key quality aspects

• Evangelize a DevOps mindset where your teams are accountable for a product from inception to sunset

• Enable a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization

• Participate in strategic planning meetings with product management, architecture, and design

• Build cross-department relationships centered on executing company strategy

• Exemplify Ingram Micro Competencies

• Communicate effectively with team members, internal, and external customers

• Solve complex software engineering tasks, while maintaining coding standards and practices

• Contribute to technical engineering designs, resource management, and solution implementations

• Manage the delivery of software using Agile best practices

• Respond to production issues in order to make quick repairs to prevent application outages

• Measure team and individual metrics such as velocity, estimation accuracy, and defect percentages

• Assist in training new engineers by leading technical courses

• Responsible for hiring, salary decisions, performance reviews, and career path mentorship of team members

• Constantly improve the processes and practices around development and delivery

• Identify the training needs for the teams and partner with leadership and HR teams to conduct these training using suitable platforms

• Good people management skills to mentor and guide individual team members in their career goals as a servant leader

• Passion for learning, sharing knowledge, mentoring, and working in a team setting with engineers of varying levels of experience

• Good analytical skills

Education

• BS, MS, MBA, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline, equivalent work experience will be considered

Experience

• 10+ years working in software engineering in building modular or headless applications at scale with the highest quality, security, and availability

• 5+ years leadership experience in engineering or similar technical leadership experience

• Experience with architectural design recommendation and guidance

• Demonstrated experience leading the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of large scale and high-performance platforms

• Software development experience building enterprise SaaS cloud-based solutions

• Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver incrementally and on-demand

• Knowledge of release management and deployment workflow processes, from development release through production deployment

• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships and motivate team members

• A positive, can-do attitude and value collaboration are a must

• Experience with object-oriented code, .Net, C#, HTML, CSS, SQL Server, Front End Web, Web Services, GraphQL, event-driven microservices, Microfrontends, SPAs

• Knowledge of implementing Telemetry and observability across application portfolio - Cloud and on-premise

• Technical expertise that enables meaningful conversations with product architects & engineers

• Experience architecting, implementing, and operating large-scale, highly available applications at scale in a cloud environment (GCP, Azure, AWS) using cloud-native technologies and tooling

• Developing and implementing technical efforts to design, build, and deploy cloud applications, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics

• Participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle for cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance

• Experience with data systems and data processing, including query processing, cloud-based data systems and analytics, and structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

• Experience in several of the following areas: serverless environments, database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code

Specialized Knowledge & Skills

• Accuracy and attention to detail

• Professional demeanor

• Customer-centric, Speed, Innovation, trusted partnerships, highly collaborative, Think global, Decision making, results-oriented

• Works effectively in a team setting

• Works efficiently across distributed teams

• Aptitude for learning new technologies and concepts

• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize

• Manage several activities in parallel

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong organizational skills

• Able to translate customer and business needs to technical solutions

• The natural ability to be a champion for change

• Strong people management skills to mentor and guide individual team members in their career goals