Senior Engineering Manager - Digital Engineering

About This Role

This leadership role in Digital Engineering focuses on guiding back-end engineering teams to create exceptional member experiences. It involves identifying, prioritizing, and shaping complex digital initiatives in collaboration with business stakeholders, delivering digital services for web and native applications, and overseeing data and service migration to the cloud. The role also integrates emerging AI and agentic technologies to enhance offerings, fostering innovation and successful execution of digital transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coaching, and strategic guidance to application development teams
• Lead digital engineering teams responsible for back-end service development, data migration, micro-services, and emerging AI technologies
• Support, manage, and mentor engineering professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Influence strategic roadmaps for future initiatives
• Collaborate with business partners to ensure alignment with business initiatives and objectives
• Own the technical vision for product and platform capabilities
• Guide architectural decisions across distributed systems
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams
• Coach managers on effective leadership practices
• Drive execution through clear goal-setting, accountability, and continuous improvement of team velocity and quality
• Collaborate with product, design, architecture, and operations to align engineering work with business priorities
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, particularly cloud services and AI, to enhance member experiences and operational efficiency
• Monitor team health, remove blockers, and resolve workflow impediments proactively

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience, with a focus on enterprise-level solutions and cloud technologies
• 3+ years of experience leading large cross-functional project management initiatives, including micro-services, event-driven architectures, and streaming platforms like Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis
• 2+ years of experience with Agile/Scrum practices
• Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Bachelor

Nice to have:

• Proven success managing and scaling engineering teams of 10+ members
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture patterns
• Proficiency in modern technology stacks, with a strong understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud providers, preferably AWS, to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the entire enterprise stack
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills