Engineering Manager

Summary
Lead engineering delivery for a core part of OpenBlue's data platform, spanning platform development, migrations, data unification efforts, and ongoing stability and quality work. Manage a multi-level org of managers, leads, and ICs across dev and QA, and coordinate closely with other engineering pods to keep releases on track.

Responsibilities

- Manage and develop a multi-level engineering org (Eng Managers, Tech Leads, Developers, Test Engineers)

- Drive major engineering initiatives and platform migrations

- Own sprint delivery, testing support, and production deployment cadence

- Manage project plans, timelines, and dependencies across workstreams

- Partner with product/architecture on technical roadmap

- Manage performance, career growth, hiring, and staffing across the team

- Report status/risks to leadership and cross-team stakeholders

- Coordinate with QA leads on defect burn-down and release quality

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

- 9+ yrs software engineering, 2+ yrs managing managers/leads

- Experience with large-scale data platform initiatives (cloud data warehousing, Iceberg/Snowflake/Postgres)

- Experience with event driven architecture

- Experience with Kafka, SNS/SQS, Event Hubs or other message brokers

- General familiarity with Java, .NET, JavaScript, and React

- Strong grasp of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and sprint-based delivery

- Track record leading on-site engineering teams

- Strong stakeholder management with US+UK-based leadership

- Strong written and verbal English proficiency

- Experience with observability and production support (monitoring, alerting, on-call)

Nice to have

- Experience with large-scale system consolidation or platform unification projects

- Experience with API commercialization

- Background in IoT/building-management

- Frontend/fullstack development experience