Sr Manager, Software Engineering
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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences diagnostics and biotechnology
AtCytiva one ofDanahers15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. Andby harnessingDanahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.
Working atCytivameans being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines new medicines and cell and gene therapies.
AtCytivayou will be able to continuously improve yourself and us working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other our customers and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.
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The Senior Manager Software Engineering is responsible for leading engineering teams across a complex product and platform area ensuring predictable high-quality delivery at portfolio scale while building the talent pipelines operating mechanisms and architectural governance that enable long-term engineering excellence. This role acts as a force multiplier through Engineering Managers Tech Leads and Staff Engineers translating business strategy into engineering execution shaping team topology and driving cross-functional alignment across organizational boundaries
This position reports to the Director Software Engineering and is and will be an on-site role.
While roles are posted openly to ensure transparency some vacancies may be considered as suitable alternative roles for associates who are at risk of redundancy. Where this applies those individuals will be given priority consideration in line with applicable legal and company requirements.
What You Will Do:
- Lead portfolio-level deliveryacross multiple teams owning roadmap clarity dependency mapping risk management and re-scoping decisions to ensure predictable execution against consequential business commitments.
- Build and develop engineering teams coaching Engineers and Tech Leads running structured career growth frameworks (calibrated leveling promotion committees succession planning) and maintaining a high-accountability psychologically safe culture across teams.
- Co-own technical strategy and architecture governancewith Staff Engineers defining multi-quarter platform direction introducing review mechanisms (ADRs design reviews tech radar) and driving meaningful reduction of technical debt at scale.
- Partner with Product and Design leadershipto co-own planning shape roadmaps manage trade-offs and translate business priorities into engineering strategies communicated in customer and revenue terms.
- Drive operational excellence across the portfolioestablishing and monitoring SLOs incident response health on-call load MTTR trends and postmortem quality to ensure systemic improvements rather than repeated failures.
- Design and evolve team topology defining team structures interfaces and operating cadences (quarterly planning tech councils review forums) that scale quality and velocity without adding organizational friction.
- Champion AI and automation adoptionacross engineering teams identifying where AI agents developer tooling and process automation unlock leverage and reduce toil at the org level.
Who You Are:
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent experience in a senior engineering leadership role.
- 10 years of software engineering experience with C# .Net including at least 4 years managing engineering teams with demonstrated experience leading managers or senior ICs across multiple teams or platform areas.
- Proven track record of portfolio-level delivery ownership including roadmap management dependency resolution and cross-team risk mitigation in complex product environments.
- Technical credibility in software engineering. Sufficient depth to partner effectively with Engineers on architectural direction platform decisions and build vs. buy trade-offs.
- Demonstrated experience building engineering leaders. Coaching Tech Leads and Engineers running leveling calibration processes and developing succession pipelines.
- Experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product Design QA and business stakeholders with a track record of earning stakeholder trust through consistent transparent communication and reliable delivery.
- Familiarity with engineering excellence practices Clean Code DORA metrics SLOs incident management developer experience and continuous improvement mechanisms at scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- Remains an active hands-on technologist comfortable writing code leading proof-of-concept work and getting into the technical weeds when it matters
- Relentless technical mentorknown for leading the engineers beyond setting a high bar for technical craft and holding people accountable to continuous growth
- Experience designing team topology and organizational structure including stream-aligned platform and enabling team models in a scaled engineering organization.
- Track record of driving at least one org-wide engineering improvement such as a hiring loop overhaul leveling calibration program incident management system or developer platform uplift.
- Exposure to AI and automation-heavy engineering environments with practical experience governing and scaling AI agent usage data pipelines
Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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