DescriptionWe're looking for a leader who is energized by setting strategy and growing a team's engineering practices. You will build on today's standards, set the team's direction for supporting agentic engineering practices (where appropriate), and act as a change agent, helping the team adopt new ways of working.
This is a hybrid role requiring two days in the office a week in Boston, Portsmouth, Indianapolis, Columbus, or Plano.
We cannot provide visa sponsorship at this time
US Retail Market (USRM) Architecture is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead Accelerator, a team of software engineers who build reusable assets (patterns, libraries and tutorials) that put USRM architecture standards into practice. These assets give all USRM engineering squads a faster, more consistent starting point for development. The team also builds the fitness functions and framework that measure how well teams adhere to standards.
You will be directly accountable for team effectiveness, delivery quality and the growth of your engineers. You will create a motivating environment of continuous learning and accountability, leveraging agile practices.
What You Will Do
Reusable assets and standards
- Define reusable assets (patterns, libraries, templates, tutorials and documentation) that speed adoption of USRM architecture standards.
- Identify where standardization at scale will deliver the most consistency and value across USRM.
- Identify new reusable assets to be developed (skills, agents, other) that support agentic engineering best practices.
Engineering practices
- Promote AI-enabled engineering practices that speed delivery and improve outcomes.
- Champion modern cloud engineering practices, including cloud-native design, automation, CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) and infrastructure as code.
- Assist in the evaluate and selection of new technologies.
Architecture adherence
- Guide the fitness functions and framework that measure adherence to architecture standards and turn th results into clear next steps for engineering teams.
Partnership and alignment
- Partner with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Architect to align the team's work with shared product goals and define the KPIs (key performance indicators) that measure success.
- Build partnerships with clients, technology and business managers, vendors and technology executives to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Team leadership
- Monitor team effectiveness, remove roadblocks and manage dependencies on other teams.
- Mentor and coach team members.
- Deliver performance reviews, address performance issues promptly and support professional development, including rotations and special assignments.
Why join us
You will lead a team with high visibility and enterprise-wide impact. You will shape how USRM teams build software, work with cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies and develop a team that makes everyone else faster.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience managing teams that use Agile Scrum
- Working knowledge of a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform) and cloud-native architecture
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and an understanding of how AI is changing engineering practices and solution delivery
- Experience driving adoption of architecture standards, platforms or shared engineering practices across multiple teams
- Ability to set a clear vision, mission and strategy for a team and rally others around it
- Passion for advancing engineering practices and helping teams adopt the approaches that work best
- Strong communication, influence and stakeholder management skills
- Track record of coaching engineers and building inclusive, high-trust teams
- Strong analytical skills and sound judgment, with the ability to build consensus across cross-functional stakeholders
Preferred
- Background in platform engineering, developer experience or enterprise architecture
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, containerization and infrastructure as code
- 3+ years leading engineers
