About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Scientific Data Engineers (SDE) spread across multiple forward deployed engineering squads and drive both technical and organizational excellence. This role is ideal for a leader who can zoom out to see systemic inefficiencies across teams and processes, then roll up their sleeves to fix them - while also building a culture where engineers do their best work.
What You'll Do
Team & People Leadership
- Supervise and guide SDEs in each squad in planning, implementation, testing, and documentation. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
- Lead by example - comfortable with diving deeper into organizational and technical challenges and help the team navigate ambiguity and vagueness.
- Manage performance, career development, and org design as teams scale
- Hire, mentor, and retain strong engineering talent; build a pipeline of future technical leaders
Operational Excellence
- Proactively identify inefficiencies in engineering workflows, processes, and cross-team handoffs - don't wait to be told something is broken
- Design and implement systems (planning cadences, metrics, tooling) that increase velocity and reduce friction across teams
- Establish and track meaningful engineering metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, incident rates, etc.) to guide decisions
- Drive continuous process improvement, balancing speed with sustainability
Technical & Engineering Excellence
- Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, architecture, testing, and operational reliability across teams
- Partner with tech leads and architects on key technical decisions and trade-offs
- Champion best practices in system design, scalability, and maintainability
- Stay close enough to the technical details to ask sharp questions and unblock teams when needed
Strategy & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Translate company and product strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps across multiple teams
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and timelines
- Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive leadership
- Own budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation for your organization