Manager, Engineering

Your Role

The Manager, Engineering oversees a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. This leader ensures teams have the strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline needed to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

Managers are expected to be strong people and execution leaders with enough technical depth to guide major decisions, resolve complex risks, improve engineering practices, and support modernization efforts. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership teams to align priorities, remove obstacles, and drive outcomes that support Stellarus’ mission and evolving technology strategy.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Lead an engineering team responsible for delivering secure, scalable, reliable technology solutions.
• Oversee delivery execution from planning through release, including team capacity, sequencing, delivery status, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder updates.
• Manage staffing, recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and day-to-day team operations to ensure the team has the right talent and capacity to meet delivery needs.
• Guide senior technical talent in resolving complex delivery, architecture, reliability, security, scalability, integration, and operational issues.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Platform, QA, and business stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and deliver work aligned to business and product goals.
• Support engineers in designing and delivering scalable, secure, cloud-ready solutions, while ensuring appropriate technical review, standards alignment, and decision-making discipline.
• Help resolve delivery blockers, technical issues, risks, and dependencies, escalating when needed and coordinating across teams to keep delivery moving.
• Monitor delivery health, quality, reliability, operational performance, and team effectiveness through KPIs, Agile metrics, and continuous improvement practices.
• Promote modern engineering practices, including secure development, CI/CD, cloud-native approaches, automation, testability, maintainability, observability, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Ensure team solutions are reliable, maintainable, secure, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards, architectural patterns, and operational expectations.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, engineering pragmatism, continuous learning, and clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 7 years of experience in software engineering, full stack development, platform engineering, technical delivery, infrastructure engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• 2 years of prior management, team leadership, supervisor, project/program management, or equivalent people leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery models, backlog management, technical scope management, risk management, prioritization, coaching, and delegation.
• Technical fluency across modern engineering practices such as cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, version control, secure development, system integrations, data models, and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks, backend services, APIs, SQL and/or NoSQL databases, RESTful integrations, cloud platforms, containerization, Infrastructure as Code, and AI-assisted coding tools preferred.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, Design, QA, Security, Platform, Architecture, vendor, and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience operating in regulated, healthcare, enterprise, or complex technology environments preferred.

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.