Engineering Manager

Role: Engineering Manager 

Location: New York, NY or New Jersey. Candidate should be open to travel to Client's office in NYC.

Role Overview: 

We are seeking a highly accomplished Engineering Manager to lead high-performing engineering teams delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions for enterprise customers. This role requires a strong blend of technical leadership, AWS expertise, delivery ownership, and executive stakeholder management. The ideal candidate has experience working with technology-driven organizations, managing distributed engineering teams, and serving as a trusted advisor to senior customer leadership. 

The Engineering Manager will drive product and platform delivery, foster engineering excellence, influence architectural decisions, and build strong customer relationships while ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology strategy. 

Key Responsibilities 

Engineering Leadership 

• Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams across multiple workstreams. 
• Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 
• Drive engineering best practices, Agile delivery, code quality, operational excellence, and reliability. 
• Manage capacity planning, hiring, career development, succession planning, and team engagement. 

Delivery & Execution 

• Own end-to-end delivery of strategic programs and technology initiatives. 
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Business teams to define roadmaps and execution plans. 
• Track delivery milestones, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes. 
• Ensure predictable, high-quality releases and customer commitments. 

AWS & Cloud Technology Leadership 

• Provide technical leadership for cloud-native architectures within the AWS ecosystem. 
• Guide teams on leveraging AWS services including compute, storage, networking, serverless, databases, messaging, and security services. 
• Drive modernization initiatives including microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, DevOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code. 
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized. 

Customer & Executive Stakeholder Management 

• Serve as a trusted technology partner to client engineering leaders, directors, and executives. 
• Facilitate executive-level discussions on technology strategy, engineering roadmaps, delivery progress, and transformation initiatives. 
• Translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes for senior stakeholders. 
• Lead governance meetings, executive reviews, escalation management, and strategic planning sessions. 

Operational Excellence 

• Establish and monitor engineering KPIs, SLAs, quality metrics, and customer satisfaction measures. 
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that improve delivery velocity, reliability, and customer outcomes. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and remove delivery bottlenecks. 

Required Skills & Experience 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years managing engineering teams. 
• Hands-on experience working in modern technology organizations delivering enterprise-scale solutions. 
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and cloud-native application development. 
• Experience with microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and modern architectural patterns. 
• Proficiency in one or more technologies such as Java, Python, Node.js, Go, React, or TypeScript. 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure-as-Code. 
• Proven experience managing large-scale customer engagements and technology transformation programs. 
• Strong program execution, planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication skills. 
• Demonstrated success influencing and managing Director, VP, and C-level customer stakeholders. 
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and leadership skills. 

Nice-to-Have Skills 

• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Professional, or related cloud certifications. 
• Experience with AI/GenAI platforms, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, or intelligent automation solutions. 
• Exposure to SaaS platform engineering and multi-tenant architectures. 
• Experience with Kubernetes, Containers, ECS/EKS, Terraform, and observability platforms. 
• Knowledge of data engineering, analytics platforms, and event-streaming technologies such as Kafka. 
• Experience in consulting, professional services, or customer-facing technology delivery organizations. 

Impact & Value 

• Drive successful delivery of strategic customer initiatives and digital transformation programs. 
• Build trusted relationships with executive customer stakeholders and influence technology strategy. 
• Improve engineering productivity, quality, reliability, and operational excellence. 
• Accelerate cloud adoption and modernization using AWS best practices. 
• Develop high-performing engineering teams and future technical leaders. 
• Deliver measurable business outcomes that improve customer satisfaction, scalability, and long-term growth.