Sr Manager Engineering, QA Performance

Team Description 

As part of the ADO team under GPTO Engineering, you’ll report to the Sr. Director Engineering. This team is accountable for Quality/Performance assuring enterprise data architecture, enabling high-performance AI-driven workloads, and acting as a technical bridge between engineering and architecture. 

Your Impact 

Team Leadership & Development 

• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team based on actual demand and delivery needs 

• Provide hands-on coaching and guidance to Principal Engineers and team members, fostering technical excellence and career growth 

• Quickly establish trust with team members, peers, and stakeholders through authentic engagement and delivery 

• Champion engineering culture that balances pragmatic delivery with sustainable practices 

Delivery Excellence 

• Drive fast-paced, continuous delivery practices—leading the transformation from monthly to daily release cycles 

• Balance process rigor with delivery velocity; know when documentation adds value and when it creates friction 

• Apply and evangelize proper use of DORA metrics to measure and improve team performance 

• Ensure platform capabilities for data processing, AI, and developer acceleration ship reliably and on schedule 

• Take ownership of delivery outcomes; work proactively with Product Management without waiting for perfect requirements 

Technical Strategy & Collaboration 

• Partner closely with architects to align implementation patterns with long-term technical direction 

• Create clear, compelling strategy papers, roadmaps, and presentations for technical and executive audiences 

• Collaborate across globally distributed teams with awareness of time zone considerations and asynchronous work patterns 

• Guide teams in embedding AI/ML features—prompt engineering, model inference, feature pipelines—into platform services 

• Contribute to technical planning, architecture decisions, and incident retrospectives 

Platform & Product Mindset 

• Apply product thinking to platform solutions, ensuring they meet real business and customer needs 

• Champion innovation in performance, tooling, and platform capabilities 

• Oversee design and delivery of full stack solutions spanning React, Java, and Python 

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and architecture 

Your Qualifications 

Leadership & Management 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management or technical leadership 

• Proven track record managing teams through significant process transformations (e.g., monthly to daily releases) 

• Experience managing both technical leads/Principal Engineers and individual contributors 

• Demonstrated ability to scale teams thoughtfully based on demand, not politics 

Technical Depth 

• Strong software development background with hands-on experience in platform, infrastructure, or data-centric environments 

• Deep expertise in event-driven architectures, streaming technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka, Flink, and/or Pulsar) 

• Proficiency across full stack technologies (Java, .Net, React) with ability to guide technical decisions 

• Knowledge of hybrid/cloud-agnostic infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, and continuous delivery workflows 

Delivery & Process 

• Pragmatic approach to balancing process, documentation, and speed of delivery 

• Deep understanding of DORA metrics and their proper application to drive improvement 

• Experience leading high-velocity engineering organizations with daily release cadence 

• Skilled at change management and cultural transformation in engineering teams 

Communication & Collaboration 

• Exceptional communication skills—written and verbal—with ability to influence across all levels 

• Experienced creating executive-level strategy documents, roadmaps, and presentations 

• Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across multiple timezones 

• Strong collaborative partnership with Product Management; proactive problem-solving mindset 

 

Preferred Skills 

• Track record of building trust rapidly in new environments 

• Passion for technical mentorship and elevating team capabilities 

• Experience scaling systems and teams under high throughput demands 

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive delivery without perfect information 

• Comfort with asynchronous collaboration and remote team dynamics 

• Experience in hybrid engineering-management roles (player-coach background) 

Team Description 

As part of the ADO team under GPTO Engineering, you’ll report to the Sr. Director Engineering. This team is accountable for Quality/Performance assuring enterprise data architecture, enabling high-performance AI-driven workloads, and acting as a technical bridge between engineering and architecture. 

Your Impact 

Team Leadership & Development 

• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team based on actual demand and delivery needs 

• Provide hands-on coaching and guidance to Principal Engineers and team members, fostering technical excellence and career growth 

• Quickly establish trust with team members, peers, and stakeholders through authentic engagement and delivery 

• Champion engineering culture that balances pragmatic delivery with sustainable practices 

Delivery Excellence 

• Drive fast-paced, continuous delivery practices—leading the transformation from monthly to daily release cycles 

• Balance process rigor with delivery velocity; know when documentation adds value and when it creates friction 

• Apply and evangelize proper use of DORA metrics to measure and improve team performance 

• Ensure platform capabilities for data processing, AI, and developer acceleration ship reliably and on schedule 

• Take ownership of delivery outcomes; work proactively with Product Management without waiting for perfect requirements 

Technical Strategy & Collaboration 

• Partner closely with architects to align implementation patterns with long-term technical direction 

• Create clear, compelling strategy papers, roadmaps, and presentations for technical and executive audiences 

• Collaborate across globally distributed teams with awareness of time zone considerations and asynchronous work patterns 

• Guide teams in embedding AI/ML features—prompt engineering, model inference, feature pipelines—into platform services 

• Contribute to technical planning, architecture decisions, and incident retrospectives 

Platform & Product Mindset 

• Apply product thinking to platform solutions, ensuring they meet real business and customer needs 

• Champion innovation in performance, tooling, and platform capabilities 

• Oversee design and delivery of full stack solutions spanning React, Java, and Python 

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and architecture 

Your Qualifications 

Leadership & Management 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management or technical leadership 

• Proven track record managing teams through significant process transformations (e.g., monthly to daily releases) 

• Experience managing both technical leads/Principal Engineers and individual contributors 

• Demonstrated ability to scale teams thoughtfully based on demand, not politics 

Technical Depth 

• Strong software development background with hands-on experience in platform, infrastructure, or data-centric environments 

• Deep expertise in event-driven architectures, streaming technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka, Flink, and/or Pulsar) 

• Proficiency across full stack technologies (Java, .Net, React) with ability to guide technical decisions 

• Knowledge of hybrid/cloud-agnostic infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, and continuous delivery workflows 

Delivery & Process 

• Pragmatic approach to balancing process, documentation, and speed of delivery 

• Deep understanding of DORA metrics and their proper application to drive improvement 

• Experience leading high-velocity engineering organizations with daily release cadence 

• Skilled at change management and cultural transformation in engineering teams 

Communication & Collaboration 

• Exceptional communication skills—written and verbal—with ability to influence across all levels 

• Experienced creating executive-level strategy documents, roadmaps, and presentations 

• Comfortable working with globally distributed teams across multiple timezones 

• Strong collaborative partnership with Product Management; proactive problem-solving mindset 

 

Preferred Skills 

• Track record of building trust rapidly in new environments 

• Passion for technical mentorship and elevating team capabilities 

• Experience scaling systems and teams under high throughput demands 

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive delivery without perfect information 

• Comfort with asynchronous collaboration and remote team dynamics 

• Experience in hybrid engineering-management roles (player-coach background)