Senior Engineering Manager

The Senior Engineering Manager serves as a leader to an agile product development team. You'll guide the strategic coordination and optimization of behaviour within the team and provide technical oversight and guidance while also managing the team members to ensure effective team functioning and product development. You'll also provide oversight of the product development processes and development team, giving feedback and developing leaders on those teams.

Responsibilities you'll be accountable for include people management, fulfilment of customer requirements, technical oversight, product development planning, process improvement, and stakeholder relationship management.

What You'll Do

Engineering and Innovation

• Lead an engineering team to craft innovative software solutions

• Collaborate with other leaders to define, plan, and execute roadmap objectives

• Promote sustainable product development practices and agile principles while also ensuring appropriate attention to overall support burden, architectural direction, and tech debt

• Plan and advocate for architecture priorities as a part of the roadmap

• Provide context for business level objectives as well as product, engineering, and architectural decisions outside of the immediate team

• Represent the engineering function for the Workiva ParsePort product line

• Lead engineering management initiatives within your broader leadership team

Team Performance & Development

• Assess and document individual employee performance

• Meet with direct reports to discuss and coach in areas including, but not limited to career development, assigning product development work, and problem solving

• Prioritize and invest time into career growth for direct reports; includes identifying and providing opportunities related to their goals, as appropriate

• Lead workforce planning and the recruiting process for the team

• Assess and manage team health, including employee engagement and conflict management

What You'll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of related career experience in Software Engineering in a technology organization

• 3+ years of people management experience in a technology organization

• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of knowledge and related career experience 

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership skills in people and team management

• Demonstrated thought leader who is able to create objectives and goals in alignment with team vision

• Experience working in an agile development environment

• Experience with financial, regulatory or similarly complex reporting platforms a plus

• Curiosity and a growth mindset, always seeking opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills

• Experience with C#, .Net Core

• Any experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Redis, RabbitMQ, Signal-R, or MySQL would be highly advantageous

Travel Requirements & Working Conditions​

• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a company office

• 20% travel for customer and internal meetings

What We Offer You

We can offer you a job in a dynamic and international company with many different customer groups, where you will have the opportunity to develop. We are a flexible workplace that values ​​our employees and gives great individual responsibility to each person in the company.

• Dedicated colleagues who take the time to help each other

• An informal and fun but focused work environment

• Lunch and massage arrangement

• Social gatherings

Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

You can get to know us better at www.parseport.com and www.workiva.com.