Manager Software Engineering

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader backed by one of the worlds largest travel data clouds. Built on an open modular cloud-native architecture Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold new disruptors guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent connected and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale Sabre transforms insights into innovation empowering airlines hoteliers agencies and other partners to retail distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

Development & Engineering General Job Description

Team/ Project description

At Sabre were passionate about building software that solves this role you will plan design develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools.

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead and manage cross-functional engineering teams (application platform systems quality and database engineers).
• Own end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives ensuring predictable execution and high quality.
• Balance speed quality reliability and cost across cloud-native platforms and applications.
• Ensure engineering work aligns with product strategy architectural direction and business priorities.

People Management & Team Development

• Directly manage and develop senior and lead engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Foster a culture of accountability collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Provide coaching feedback performance management and career development guidance.
• Support hiring onboarding and team scaling efforts.
• Promote diversity inclusion and psychological safety within teams.

Stakeholder & Communication Leadership

• Act as a primary engineering point of contact for Product Management Architecture SRE Security and Business stakeholders.
• Translate business goals into clear engineering plans and execution strategies.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences including leadership updates and risk discussions.
• Proactively manage expectations dependencies and cross-team coordination.

Technical Oversight & Governance

• Provide technical leadership and guidance without micromanaging implementation.
• Ensure strong engineering practices across:
  • Cloud-native application development
  • Platform and systems engineering
  • CI/CD and automation
  • Quality engineering and testing
  • Database and data platform operations
• Drive architecture reviews technical decision forums and standards adoption.
• Ensure systems meet expectations for security scalability reliability and compliance.

Operational Excellence

• Own operational readiness including incident response root cause analysis and remediation tracking.
• Partner with teams to reduce technical debt and operational toil.
• Ensure documentation runbooks and operational processes are in place.
• Drive cost-aware engineering and cloud spend accountability.

Required Skills

Leadership & Management

• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams (application platform systems quality data).
• Strong people management skills including coaching performance management career development and hiring.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders.

Stakeholder & Delivery Management

• Strong experience managing product architecture and business stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business objectives into clear engineering execution plans.
• Experience delivering complex cloud-based systems using Agile methodologies.
• Strong ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes not just execution.

Technical Background & Hands-on Experience

• Strong hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-grade applications using Java pyspark and cloud native solutions.
• Proven experience building microservices-based architectures including RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases including data modeling and integration.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native application design scalability resiliency and fault tolerance.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines automation and modern DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent public cloud environments.
• Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions review designs and make informed architectural trade-offs.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field (Masters Degree preferred).
• 12 years of total industry experience in software engineering or related technical roles.
• 34 years of experience in an engineering leadership role (Engineering Manager Technical Manager or equivalent).
• Experience leading cloud-native production-scale systems.

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.