{"id":3191963,"url":"https://alion.io/job/oclc-technical-manager","title":"Technical Manager","company":{"id":1799194,"name":"OCLC","domain":"yourcloudlibrary.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/yourcloudlibrary","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dublin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":118000,"max_usd":242000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1354},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon Aurora","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"OpenSearch","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"Spring Boot","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-13","last_verified_at":"2026-10-27T06:12:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"Together we make breakthroughs possible.\nAt OCLC, we build technology with a purpose: to connect libraries and make knowledge accessible worldwide, because we believe that what is known must be shared. Our teams work with complex global datasets, AI and machine learning, hybrid cloud solutions, and other technologies that connect people and organizations to the information they need. We value the power of unique perspectives and experiences to unlock innovation. At OCLC, your ideas matter, whether you have two years of experience or 20. You’lllearn, create, and problem-solve with technologists, product developers, librarians, researchers, marketing pros, and support teams around the world.\nWhy join OCLC?\nOCLC is consistently recognized as a best place to work by several independent programs. We recognize and reward people and results with a comprehensive Total Rewards package. This means competitive compensation that reflects your unique contributions-performance, experience, and skills-along with exceptional benefits, including best-in-class health coverage, retirement plans with generous company contributions, and a commitment to your overall well-being.\nWe know the best ideas don’t always happen at a desk. Take a walking meeting around our 100-acre campus or enjoy lunch on the patio. We’re committed to your success-both personally and professionally. Hybrid work environment: For many roles, three days a week on-site, with occasional additional days based on business needs.\n\nFree use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room\n\nOnsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC\n\nHealth and wellness events\n\nWork environments with individual and team spaces and the latest technology tools\n\nPaid parental leave and adoption assistance\n\nTuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility\n\nCompany-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships\n\nJoin us in transforming how people everywhere access information and be part of a mission-driven team that makes a global impact.\nThe job details are as follows:\nThe Collective Collection Analytics team is looking for a Technical Manager to lead a growing team of full stack software engineers. This is a full-time people leadership role focused on building and motivating a high-performing team, partnering with Product Managers to prioritize work and shape the roadmap, and driving reliable delivery in a modern cloud-native environment. The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with enough technical depth to guide architecture and design decisions, earn the team's trust, and hold a high bar for quality, while spending their time on people, priorities, and outcomes rather than writing code. The role champions responsible use of AI-assisted engineering to accelerate delivery across the team.Responsibilities:\n People leadershipLead 2 teams of full stack developers (Java and JavaScript backend, React frontend) and cloud engineers, who also cover ETL and data pipeline work, QA automation, and business systems analysis.\nServe as the team's functional manager, handling hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management through regular one-on-ones and goal setting, along with career development, mentoring, and succession planning.\nBuild a motivated, engaged team culture by setting clear expectations, recognizing contributions, creating growth opportunities, and addressing issues early.\nPlan team capacity and staffing and make sound decisions on how work and skills are distributed across the team.\n\nProduct partnership, prioritization, and strategy\nPartner closely with Product Managers on roadmap execution and staffing needs, turning product direction into clear outcomes, milestones, delivery plans, and execution tradeoffs.\nLead prioritization with Product Managers and organizational leadership, balancing new features, technical debt, operational work, and shifting business needs.\nSet the team's technical strategy and direction, and communicate priorities and the reasons behind them so every engineer understands how their work supports the goals.\nEvaluate new technologies, tools, and processes, and recommend improvements for reliability, speed, quality, and cost reduction.\n\nDelivery and execution\nDrive day-to-day execution, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, and keep a multi-sprint-ahead view of the team's work.\nOwn JIRA dashboard management and release planning, and track delivery, quality, and reliability metrics to guide improvement.\nCoordinate cross-team work with security, infrastructure, data, and partner teams, and communicate risks, progress, and tradeoffs to leadership.\nOversee ETL and data integration work across internal and external sources, ensuring repeatable refresh processes, automation, reconciliation, and data quality controls.\n\nAI-accelerated delivery\nLead team-wide adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows, including coding, testing, documentation, and code review support, within clear guardrails rather than unchecked use.\nIdentify and prioritize AI-enabled automation opportunities, such as data pipeline and reporting automation, anomaly detection, reconciliation, and intelligent alerting.\nEnsure responsible AI usage around security, privacy, intellectual property, and validation of outputs, and measure the effect on delivery speed and quality.\n\nTechnical oversight and operational excellence\nProvide technical direction and oversight of application and integration architecture hosted in AWS, ensuring scalability, security, maintainability, and cost awareness.\nEstablish and uphold engineering standards for API and service design, code review, CI/CD and release practices, and automated testing and quality gates.\nEnsure production readiness and operational excellence, including monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, runbooks, and disaster recovery documentation.\nPromote secure-by-default development practices, including dependency and vulnerability management, secrets management, and least-privilege access.\nCoordinate data platform usage and patterns in AWS, with Snowflake and Google Analytics experience preferred.\nOversee capacity planning and environment strategy across development, test, stage, and production.\n\nAdministration\nOwn the financial budget as assigned, and maintain accountability for time reporting, budgeting inputs, and other administrative responsibilities required for ongoing team support.\n\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n5+ years of professional software development experience, including 1-3 years as a people manager of software engineers.\nDemonstrated success building, motivating, and retaining high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.\nProven ability to partner with Product Managers to prioritize work, plan roadmaps, and deliver outcomes in an Agile environment.\nSolid technical foundation in Java and Spring Boot services, React frontend development, and cloud-native patterns such as containers and microservices, sufficient to guide architecture and design decisions and review technical approaches.\nWorking knowledge of AWS and container orchestration through EKS or ECS, with an understanding of observability, incident management, and operational readiness.\nFamiliarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Aurora, or RDS, search technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or SOLR, and ETL and data pipeline practices.\nStrong understanding of CI/CD and automated testing strategies in an iterative delivery environment.\nExperience introducing AI-assisted tools or workflows to a team, or a strong demonstrated interest in doing so responsibly.\nExcellent communication skills, able to explain architecture, risks, and tradeoffs to engineers, product partners, and senior stakeholders.\nExperience with Agile delivery and leading teams through iterative planning and execution.\nDesired Qualifications:\nStrong AWS and Snowflake experience.\nExperience with Google Analytics for reporting and insights.\nFamiliarity with accessibility considerations for web applications and platform UI integrations\nWorking Conditions: Normal office environment.\nADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8565,"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":["Cafeteria","Growth opportunities","Hybrid work","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Data Providers & Datasets","Intranet & Knowledge Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-24T02:14:03Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":71,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.874,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:57","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/oclc-technical-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/oclc-technical-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T10:44:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12486,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1799194},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1799194"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Foclc-technical-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Foclc-technical-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Foclc-technical-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/oclc-technical-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Foclc-technical-manager"}]}