Senior Engineering Manager
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with strong technical judgement people-management capabilities and experience driving complex engineering initiatives.
You will lead an engineering team and help improve product delivery system reliability and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires the ability to connect business priorities with long-term technical development identify critical issues across the engineering organization and drive continuous improvements in team capability engineering practices and delivery mechanisms.
You will also play a key role in major technical decisions complex projects and the continued development of the engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day management of an engineering team including goal setting resource planning team development and capability building.
- Contribute to engineering strategy and planning translating business objectives into appropriate technical and organizational priorities.
- Lead important engineering projects from requirements analysis and solution design through resource coordination delivery and post-launch improvement.
- Participate in architecture design and technical reviews for core systems identify key risks and drive issues to resolution.
- Continuously improve engineering processes development standards and quality mechanisms to enhance delivery efficiency and system reliability.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across product AI engineering and other relevant teams to achieve complex goals.
- Identify long-term issues within the technology stack and engineering organization and promote reusable solutions and systematic improvements.
- Remain closely involved in critical technical decisions and complex problem-solving balancing delivery speed technical quality and long-term sustainability.
- Build a strong talent pipeline through hiring coaching performance feedback and the development of key team members.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Science or a related discipline.
- Extensive software engineering experience together with experience managing an engineering or technical team.
- Proven experience leading the design development and delivery of complex systems or large-scale engineering projects.
- Strong technical foundations and sound architectural judgement with the ability to understand and challenge important technical decisions.
- Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle with a systematic view of engineering quality delivery efficiency system reliability and development standards.
- Deep practical experience in one or more areas such as backend engineering platform engineering data engineering test automation quality engineering or engineering productivity.
- Ability to identify engineering problems at both system and process levels and drive solutions through technology tools operating mechanisms and team collaboration.
- Strong goal-setting project-management and cross-functional execution skills with the ability to deliver results in complex environments.
- Proven people-management and talent-development capabilities with experience building stable and effective engineering teams.
- Ability to balance business priorities technical quality system complexity and long-term architectural evolution.
- Strong communication skills ownership and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across different functions and levels.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with enterprise software SaaS AI-powered products or other technically complex products.
- Experience with data-intensive systems automated testing frameworks engineering quality systems or internal engineering platforms.
- Experience building an engineering team technical system or development practice from the ground up.
- Experience with cross-team technical governance engineering transformation or organizational change.
- A track record of combining strong people leadership with active involvement in core technical and architectural decisions.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Patsnap empowers IP and R&D teams with advanced AI to get better answers and make faster decisions. Increase IP productivity by 75% while reducing R&D wastage by 25%.