Engineering Manager

Position Overview

This role is accountable for people leadership and delivery outcomes, aligning execution to strategy while technical design and implementation are owned by engineering practitioners.

Work Arrangement: Remote, United States

This role requires the individual to be based in Flexible across U.S. time zones.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, manage, motivate, and coach engineering talents of diverse practices (QA, automation, Dev, DevOps), different seniority levels & working locations (remote work).
• Handle the delivery of applications your team work with, prioritizing work and acting as point of contact for the team when needed.
• Utilize Agile methodology (Scrum) to manage and deliver efficiently, ensuring adherence to company SDLC standards.
• Partner with Product Managers & Architects to align on strategy, priorities and delivery execution for the applications you are accountable for.
• Work with Technology Operations team to define deployment & operation of the applications you handle.
• Provide oversight and review of solution design, estimations, technical sequencing, and code quality to ensure alignment with standards, timelines, and business objectives.
• Liaise with Sales, Services, Support teams and Customers to discuss matters related to applications owned by you.
• Provide high-level effort estimates for planning and prioritization, based on input from engineering teams.
• Build and support a results-oriented culture, fostering innovation, accountability, team collaboration, and empathy.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM field or equivalent experience.
• 6–8 years of experience in Software Engineering
• Previous experience as Engineering Manager, Architect, Tech Lead or other technical leadership roles within Engineering practice.
• Expert in at least one of SDLC roles – QA, Software Engineering, Test Automation or DevOps, with fair good knowledge of all others
• Strong proficiency in overseeing non-functional aspects of enterprise-grade applications, like performance, security, reliability.
• Experience in Legal, Finance or mission-critical products, as manager or individual contributor
• Experience in cloud-native applications, as manager or individual contributor.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft technology engineering stack (.NET, Azure, Azure DevOps)
• Eagerness to obtain domain knowledge to effectively use technical qualifications.
• Exceptional leadership and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication abilities
• Strong delivery and coaching skills
• Ability to travel up <10% as business needs require
• Role requires the following physical capacity: Sedentary: primarily desk/computer work
• Must be legally authorized to work in United States; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position