Senior Engineer Manager

📋 Description

• Lead a high-performing team of engineers, including employees, internal contractors, and external contractors, to deliver impactful features and enhancements to our core services and systems.

• Concentrate primarily on people management, team development, and strategic execution, rather than engaging in hands-on coding.

• Independently drive project execution in alignment with semi-annual and annual objectives, while navigating ambiguity and organizational changes.

• Cultivate a culture of ownership, excellence, and psychological safety, enabling team members to grow and produce their best work.

• Establish clear priorities, goals, and key performance metrics for your team, holding them accountable for progress while fostering healthy team dynamics.

• Collaborate effectively across engineering teams and with cross-functional stakeholders such as product, design, and customer to create business and customer impact.

• Build and nurture a diverse, high-performing team through strategic hiring, coaching, and creating growth opportunities aligned with individual strengths and career goals.

• Balance managing current operations, foundational work, and new initiatives to ensure sustainable long-term execution.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks, system bottlenecks, and process inefficiencies that affect team productivity and outcomes.

• Promote informed decision-making by gathering diverse perspectives and balancing customer value with overarching business objectives.

• Advocate for engineering best practices, including architectural quality, operational excellence, and alignment with technical strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant experience.

• Experience in managing mixed workforce models, including full-time employees, internal contractors, and external contractors.

• Strong emphasis on people management, with experience dedicating the majority of time to coaching, development, and team enablement rather than individual contributions.

• Experience overseeing the complete software development lifecycle with a focus on results, quality, and team well-being.

• Proven ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity while maintaining team focus and morale.

• A successful history of building, hiring, and developing diverse engineering teams across a range of skill levels.

• Experience in setting technical direction and making architectural trade-offs in collaboration with senior management.

🏝️ Benefits

• A variety of medical plan options, some of which include Health Savings Accounts.

• Dental plan options available.

• Vision plan options provided.

• 401(k) plan that allows contributions in both pre-tax and post-tax dollars up to IRS annual limits, along with company matching.

• Flexible work weeks where possible.

• A range of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick leave, personal time, holidays, paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave.

• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness.

• 10 paid holidays each year.

• GDIT Paid Family Leave program offers up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Short and long-term disability benefits included.

• Insurance options for life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accidents, critical illness, and business travel accidents.