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The team develops internal tools, financial dashboards, analytics, reporting solutions, and other technology that improves how client-serving professionals work.\nThis is a hands-on Engineering Manager role for an experienced technical lead who wants to step into people leadership without stepping away from delivery. You will serve as both the senior technical authority and the people leader: contributing code, setting technical direction, reviewing work, strengthening engineering practices, and helping the team use AI agents effectively across the software development lifecycle. The environment includes legacy .NET/C# services and Angular front ends alongside newer Python, Node.js, and React development. You will help modernize the stack in phases while keeping business-critical components stable.\nWhat You'll Work On\nLead from the keyboard: contribute production code regularly, use AI agents as part of day-to-day delivery, and stay close to the technical work.\nOwn the team’s technical direction, architecture decisions, long-term technical health, and roadmap across new delivery, modernization, and technical debt.\nLead phased modernization of legacy .NET/C# and Angular components while building new capabilities with Python, Node.js, and React.\nBreak work into small, well-bounded tasks and route each task to the best executor - an engineer, an agent, or yourself - while keeping coordination lean and outcome-focused.\nOwn pull request review and provide fast, technically substantive feedback.\nBuild and manage the technical-debt backlog, resolving priority issues directly instead of relying only on delegation.\nHire, evaluate, coach, and grow engineers; set the technical hiring bar and help the team work effectively with AI agents.\nCreate and maintain agent operating instructions, verification protocols, and human-in-the-loop controls for code, tests, documentation, and infrastructure changes.\nRun evaluation checks before merge and retain human-owned merge control for production branches.\nMaintain strong automated testing across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, and uphold consistent engineering practices across design, coding, testing, release, and operations.\nDrive CI/CD automation, containerized delivery, and Infrastructure as Code for cloud-native applications.\nTrack engineering health and delivery metrics, including required reporting through Atlassian Compass.\nFacilitate bi-weekly live demos from the cloud environment, including both product features and agent-enabled workflows.\nPartner with the dedicated production support organization by providing tooling, automation, documentation, and runbooks that make the product easier to operate and support.\nReduce operational toil through automation while applying appropriate security guardrails, blast-radius limits, and audit trails to production-touching workflows.\nMaintain visibility into WIZ Critical and Major findings and drive remediation within required service levels.\nKeep architecture documentation, ADRs, runbooks, and agent instructions current and usable.\nWhat You'll Bring\n5-7+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with clear experience as a senior engineer or technical lead and prior leadership of at least one engineering team.\nHands-on full-stack development depth and the desire to continue building while managing engineers.\nStrong proficiency with Python, Node.js, and React for modern application development.\nExperience maintaining and modernizing .NET/C# services and Angular front ends.\nDemonstrated use of agentic or AI-assisted software development workflows in real delivery environments, not just experimentation.\nOwnership of the full development lifecycle: build, test, release, operate, troubleshoot, and iterate.\nCloud-native application experience on Azure; AWS or GCP experience is also relevant.\nHands-on experience with containerized workloads and orchestration.\nInfrastructure as Code experience with tools such as Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK.\nStrong automated testing and CI/CD experience across full-stack delivery.\nAbility to make significant technical contributions, solve complex engineering problems, and make sound architecture decisions.\nClear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nHow You Work\nYou are a player-coach: comfortable owning people leadership while remaining an active practitioner.\nYou use AI agents to increase engineering throughput, but you keep quality, testing, security, and production decisions under clear human control.\nYou bring structure without creating unnecessary process and identify technical dependencies, delivery risks, and quality issues early.\nYou are comfortable working in a small-team environment where priorities can shift and where leadership means doing the work as well as directing it.\nYou balance modernization with stability and understand that business-critical systems must continue to perform while the architecture evolves.\nAdditional Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.\nExposure to financial services, accounting, finance, tax technology, finance transformation, tax software development, or implementation environments.\nAbility to take ownership of assigned work through completion, including requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, and system/process changes.\nBonus Points If You Have\nRelevant professional certifications or advanced degrees - such as CPA, EA, JD, or a master's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, information systems, engineering, quantitative economics, or a related field - are a plus, but not required.\nFamiliarity with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian tools, SonarQube, Mend, Aqua Trivy, and WIZ.\nExperience with micro front-end architectures.\nExperience modernizing mixed legacy/new technology environments while continuing to ship.\nExperience building practical engineering guardrails for AI-assisted or agentic development.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nThe team ships predictably while maintaining strong quality, testing, security, and release discipline.\nThe Engineering Manager remains technically credible and materially contributes to delivery rather than operating only as a coordinator.\nLegacy components remain stable while modernization progresses in deliberate, low-risk increments.\nAI agents are used productively with clear verification, human review, and production controls.\nEngineers receive timely technical feedback, coaching, and clear expectations, and the team’s technical hiring bar remains high.\nOperational support improves through better automation, runbooks, documentation, and reduced manual toil.\nWhy Join FormativGroup\nAt FormativGroup, you'll work with people who are practical, collabroative, and focused on solving meaningful business and technology problems. We're growing, which means you'll have opportunities to contribute ideas, work closely with experienced leaders, and help shape how we deliver for our clients. \nApplicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa currently.\nTo be considered for this position, candidates must reside in one of the following U.S. states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WI, and Washington DC.Candidates residing outside these states are not eligible for consideration currently. \nWe are committed to pay equity and transparency. The compensation range for this position represents our good faith estimate of the range we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered will be determined based on factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, education, work location, and internal equity. \nIn addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses, commissions, or other incentive programs, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, etc. \nEstimated Compensation Range:\n$190,000—$210,000 USD\nFormativGroup operates within the critical middle layer of business technology, where applications and systems connect infrastructure to business processes. We are specialists who help the middle market take full advantage of their technology investments with deep, industry-centric expertise, all in one place, to unify fragmented systems. With deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, system integration, AI, and data strategy, we bridge the gap between business goals and modern platforms. \nFormativGroup is an equal opportunity employer providing opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.\nADA Specifications: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. \n#formativgroupcareers #WorkWithUs\nClick here to view our Privacy Policy","description_format":"text","description_chars":9354,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Enterprise Apps Implementation Partners"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T23:56:56Z"}],"liveness":{"score":34,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.625,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":46,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":210000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/formativgroup-engineering-manager-remote","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/formativgroup-engineering-manager-remote.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T05:11:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3396,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1604,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}