Job Summary
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will plan, lead, and manage engineering and cloud services programs. You will lead a team of developers and QA engineers to implement, test, and deliver high-quality additions to our Cloud Volumes Service product in collaboration with our partners at Microsoft.
Responsibilities:
* Provide direction and supervision to the group or groups of engineers responsible for the end-to-end delivery of features.
* Utilise previously acquired technical experience to become actively involved in day-to-day projects to meet schedules and resolve problems.
* Take responsibility for results, including costs, methods, and staffing.
* Communicate status, key issues, and changes to leadership.
* Suggest and initiate process improvements as needed.
Job Requirements
* Run a scrum-like team, scheduling and tackling work items and conducting sprint-like reviews.
* Demonstrate leadership and vision in determining and driving both tactical and strategic decisions.
* Be responsible for unstructured tasks and will need new perspectives and creative approaches.
* Show initiative and good judgement in preventing problems and proposing solutions to identified issues.
* Manage workloads, set priorities, and drive results independently.
* Work collaboratively with a distributed global team to meet aggressive goals while responding to changing business and technical conditions.
* Manage staffing, development, and performance management programs for the engineering team.
* Take the lead for the Cloud Volumes teams at the International Headquarters in Cork.
Education
* Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
* Strong problem-solving, planning, and organisational skills.
* Ability to prioritise and address multiple projects concurrently.
* 15+ years of experience preferred, ideally including a role in management with at least 5+ years in people management.
* A Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
* Must have developed applications using C# or Golang.
* Working with Azure/AWS or GCP is a major advantage.
* Familiarity with the Atlassian collaboration tools, including Jira and Confluence.