We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of software developers as we embark on a company-wide transformation. This is your chance to use cutting-edge tools to build software applications of the future, driving a technical vision while leading teams to deliver modern digital and operational capabilities across key Telecom domains such as Ordering, Provisioning, and Inventory. This role requires a technically leader who remains close to the technology and engineering practices. The successful candidate must possess recent hands-on Go (Golang) development experience and be comfortable participating in architecture discussions, evaluating technical solutions, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers on software design and implementation best practices. Key responsibilities include: • Lead multiple software developers across cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring consistent delivery of business value, predictable execution, and strong engineering discipline • Drive AI adoption, modernization of applications, and integrations across Telecom domains (such as Ordering, Provisioning, and Inventory), aligning delivery with platform and enterprise architecture direction • Establish and evolve engineering practices for cloud-native delivery on Azure, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure-by-design, and operational readiness • Act as a technical leader by actively participating in solution design, architecture reviews, technical discussions, and engineering decision-making across teams • Provide hands-on technical guidance to developers and technical leads, promoting software engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality-first delivery • Conduct and oversee code reviews, ensuring maintainable, secure, scalable, and performant software solutions while fostering continuous learning and technical excellence • Partner with developers and technical leads to resolve complex technical challenges and drive adoption of modern software engineering patterns and practices • Practice servant leadership by supporting developers and technical leads through hiring, performance development, career paths, mentoring, and ensuring a culture of accountability, learning, and inclusion • Collaborate with product owners, business leaders and partners on roadmap execution, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk/issue escalation across teams and vendors/partners • Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, security, resiliency, scalability, data integrity, and compliance while adopting modern software development principles, frameworks and platforms The ideal candidate will possess: Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent educational background • 8+ years in software engineering roles with 3+ years leading teams (people leadership and delivery accountability) in a product-centric or Agile delivery environment • Proven experience delivering enterprise systems and integrations in complex, cross-functional environments • Strong technical background with modern application development, APIs/integration patterns, and cloud fundamentals (preferably Azure) • Demonstrated experience building software that accounts for performance, observability and security • Demonstrated ability to improve delivery outcomes (quality, cycle time, reliability) using metrics, continuous improvement, and pragmatic engineering practices • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate between business outcomes and technical execution Technical Qualifications • 8+ years of software development experience with demonstrated hands-on programming expertise in Golang (Go). Experience with C# .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or other modern development platforms is considered an asset • Working experience building and maintaining Microservices and Web API services using technologies like REST, SOAP XML, GraphQL, gRPC, and Web Sockets • Working experience building and maintaining customer facing UIs using ReactJS, NextJS, VueJS, Angular, and/or other JS frameworks • Demonstrated understanding of event driven architectures and messaging services using tools such as Azure Service Bus, AWS SNS/SQS, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and/or equivalent technologies • Working experience with Azure, AWS and/or GCP using managed services • Strong understanding of containerized application development and management using tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and/or OpenShift • Storage Technologies: MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongo DB, Databricks, and/or other equivalent technologies • Observability Platforms: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, ELK • CI/CD tooling: Azure DevOps pipelines, GitHub actions, ArgoCD • Test automation: Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber • AI Tooling: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor or other equivalent technologies • Strong understanding of Cloud Native principles and frameworks Preferred Qualifications • Experience in Telecom OSS/BSS domains and customer lifecycle processes • Familiarity with the Telemanagement Forum (TMF) standards • Experience leading modernization initiatives (legacy decomposition, platform migration, integration modernization, domain/platform realignment). • Exposure to SRE/production operations practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management, runbooks, post-incident reviews, operational automation). • Experience working with distributed teams and vendors/partners Condition of Employment: As a condition of employment and in order to comply with industry related data security standards, this position is subject to the successful completion of a Criminal Background Check. Details will be supplied to applicants as they move through the selection process.