Position: Engineering Manager
Category: Other
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11


Senior Engineering Manager

Process management:
• Department and Engineering OKRs driving, alignment with company business needs 
• Taking part at company's strategic initiatives, e.g. contributions in setup of new locations, internal processes creation and improvements, adoption of best practices on the company's level. Define, implement, manage and refine software development life cycle processes for the delivery of multiple and concurrent customer projects;
• Ensuring the adherence to organizationally defined technical practices and procedures through conducting regular engineering audits;
• Defining and enforcing standards and tools for QA activities on Salesforce Commerce Cloud, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Magento, etc.
• Collaborating with other engineering managers to ensure consistency and alignment between engineering groups.

Resource management:
• Allocation of engineers with the right skill sets to client projects ensuring adequate project staffing;
• Tracking and reporting on resource utilization identifying any resource imbalances and meeting team's billable utilization goals.
• Collaborating with project and account/engagement managers to deliver projects on time, on budget, while meeting customer expectations;
• Providing technical counsel to project leadership staff to ensure accuracy and completeness of technical understanding and communication.

People management:
• Managing and mentoring all members of distributed engineering team (including non-Ukrainian locations: Colombia, India, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Turkey, among them up to 45 engineers and 3 Engineering Managers are my direct subordinates);
• Hiring all levels of QA Engineers (from juniors to leads), their on-boarding and off-boarding;
• Creating a solution-oriented and thinking culture in engineering;
• Contributing knowledge sharing and other internal communication forums.
• Conducting semi-annual performance assessments, including SMART goals setting, promotions and compensation reviews.