Senior Manager, Scientific Data Engineering

TetraScience, Inc.; Town of Cambridge; On-site; AUD 216,000 - 331,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits for family

401K

Unlimited PTO

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Senior Engineering Manager role leading Scientific Data Engineers across multiple squads. You will drive technical and organizational excellence, tackle systemic inefficiencies, and foster a culture where engineers perform at their best. Responsible for budget, headcount planning, and cross-functional partnerships with Product and Design.

The position emphasizes building scalable processes, measurable metrics, and collaboration with executive leadership to deliver high-quality products.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall work experience, with at least 5 years in a managerial role or overseeing managers.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve operational inefficiencies at scale (process, tooling, or org).
• Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence—quality, reliability, and maintainable systems.
• Experience managing managers and shaping org design as teams grow.
• Strong technical background capable of engaging in architecture and design discussions.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and guide SDEs across squads in planning, implementation, testing and documentation.
• Lead by example and navigate ambiguity in organizational and technical challenges.
• Manage performance, career development, and org design as teams scale.
• Hire, mentor, and retain engineering talent; build a pipeline of future leaders.
• Identify inefficiencies in workflows and handoffs; drive cross-team improvements.
• Design systems and cadences to increase velocity and reduce friction across teams.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, architecture, testing and reliability.
• Partner with tech leads and architects on key technical decisions.
• Translate strategy into actionable roadmaps; align with Product and Design.

Job description

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Scientific Data Engineers (SDE) spread across multiple forward deployed engineering squads and drive both technical and organizational excellence. This role is ideal for a leader who can zoom out to see systemic inefficiencies across teams and processes, then roll up their sleeves to fix them — while also building a culture where engineers do their best work.

What You'll Do

Team & People Leadership

• Supervise and guide SDEs in each squad in planning, implementation, testing, and documentation. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Lead by example - comfortable with diving deeper into organizational and technical challenges and help the team navigate ambiguity and vagueness.
• Manage performance, career development, and org design as teams scale
• Hire, mentor, and retain strong engineering talent; build a pipeline of future technical leaders

Operational Excellence

• Proactively identify inefficiencies in engineering workflows, processes, and cross-team handoffs — don't wait to be told something is broken
• Design and implement systems (planning cadences, metrics, tooling) that increase velocity and reduce friction across teams
• Establish and track meaningful engineering metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, incident rates, etc.) to guide decisions
• Drive continuous process improvement, balancing speed with sustainability

Technical & Engineering Excellence

• Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, architecture, testing, and operational reliability across teams
• Partner with tech leads and architects on key technical decisions and trade-offs
• Champion best practices in system design, scalability, and maintainability
• Stay close enough to the technical details to ask sharp questions and unblock teams when needed

Strategy & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Translate company and product strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps across multiple teams
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and timelines
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive leadership
• Own budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation for your organization

What We're Looking For

Required

• Overall 10+ years of work experience, including at least 5 years being a manager or leading through other managers
• Proven track record of identifying and resolving operational inefficiencies at scale (process, tooling, or organizational)
• Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence — quality, reliability, and maintainable systems, not just shipping speed
• Experience managing managers and building organizational structure as teams grow
• Strong technical background with the credibility to engage deeply on architecture and design decisions
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executive stakeholders
• Experience setting and using engineering metrics to drive decisions and improvements
• Comfortable working in a changing environment and navigating through unclear requirements

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling an engineering org through significant growth (e.g., 2x–5x headcount)
• Experience working in startups
• Experience in working with life science data
• Experience with distributed/remote engineering teams
• History of building or maturing engineering processes from scratch (SDLC, release management, incident response)

What Success Looks Like in the First Year

• Identify key engineering operational bottlenecks and inefficiencies
• Engineering teams operate with clear, well-understood processes and reduced cross-team friction
• Engineering teams able to accurately predict engineering effort and deliver high-quality products on time
• Measurable improvement in key engineering metrics (velocity, quality, reliability)
• Engineering is seen as a trusted, proactive partner by Product and executive leadership

• 100% employer paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.
• 401K.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.

The salary range for this position is $150K-$230K USD. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. Final compensation is determined by a thorough evaluation of factors including the candidate’s specific experience, localized market data, and internal team equity.

This position isn't eligible for visa sponsorship