Senior Engineering Manager

1. Team Leadership & Development:

• Mentoring: Provide individualized guidance and support to team members, fostering their personal and professional growth.
• Empowerment: Delegate authority and responsibility, empowering team members to take ownership of tasks and projects.
• Training: Identify and facilitate training opportunities to upskill team members and keep them updated with industry trends.
• Collaboration: Promote open communication and collaboration within the team and with other departments.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Foster an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

2. Technical Guidance and Expertise

• Best Practices: Ensure the team adheres to industry best practices and standards in all projects.
• Problem Solving: Assist team members in tackling complex technical challenges and roadblocks.
• Innovation: Stay updated with the latest technological trends and encourage the adoption of new solutions that can benefit the company.
• Quality Assurance: Oversee the quality of technical deliverables, ensuring they meet or exceed expectations.
• Technical Documentation: Ensure comprehensive and updated documentation for all technical processes and solutions.

3. Strategic Planning

• Goal Setting: Collaborate with senior leadership to set short-term and long-term engineering goals.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Ensure that engineering goals and priorities align with the expectations of other departments and stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop strategies to mitigate them.

4. Performance Management

• Performance Reviews: Conduct regular evaluations of team members, providing constructive feedback on their achievements and areas for improvement.
• Goal Tracking: Monitor individual and team progress towards set objectives, ensuring accountability.
• Recognition: Celebrate and acknowledge outstanding performances and milestones achieved by team members.
• Feedback Mechanisms: Implement systems for team members to provide feedback on processes, projects, and leadership.
• Skill Assessment: Regularly assess the skill sets of the team to identify areas of strength and areas needing enhancement.
• Team Dynamics: Monitor and manage team dynamics to ensure positive collaboration and efficient teamwork.

5. Continuous Improvement

• Process Evaluation: Regularly review and assess engineering workflows to identify inefficiencies.
• Monitoring: Track the impact of implemented improvements, making further refinements as necessary.
• Benchmarking: Compare internal processes and performance against industry benchmarks to identify areas for improvement.

Within 90 Days, You Will:

• Become Sitetracker Certified
• Learn the overall Sitetracker product with a keen understanding of the O&M architecture and codebase
• Get acquainted with all of the tools and processes involved within the SDLC
• Establish reporting relationships and one-on-ones with the 12+ Engineering and QA team members under your management
• Review current program increment commitments and progress and take part in the discovery and planning of the following program increment’s scope
• Establish rapport with key stakeholders across teams including but not limited to Product Design, Education, and Support
• Participate in engineering department leadership meetings, metascrums, and scrum team rituals for teams under management
• Hired 1 or 2 individual contributors to join your team

Within 180 Days, You Will:

• Set OKRs for the teams under your management
• Have been part of the delivery of several key innovations involved in O&M
• Hired several individual contributors to join your team
• Perform a general heuristic analysis of Sitetracker web and mobile codebase with identified areas for improvement / technical debt identified
• Provide key technical strategic direction for growth of the O&M product
• Have KPIs established for overall team execution and quality measurement
• Have a development plan in place for all ICs with 100% adherence

Within 365 Days, You Will:

• Realize the growth of the O&M product through customer renewals, add-ons, and new logo growth
• Reduced the bug backlog of components under O&M ownership
• Have several technical debt items prioritized and delivered

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Advanced degree preferred).
• Extensive experience in software architecture, engineering, and prior management experience
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate technical concepts into simple terms to communicate cross-functionally or to customers
• Managed 7+ Software Engineers across 2 or more scrum teams
• Worked as part of a product company delivering a software product