Senior Program / Engineering Manager (#5505)

N-iX; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working format

Competitive salary

Mentorship program & tech talks

Active tech communities

Job summary

N-iX is seeking a Senior Program / Engineering Manager to own a World-class migration and feature parity programme for a major client. You will lead multiple delivery teams, stay hands-on to unblock work, and translate business goals into executable roadmaps across time zones.

You will drive plan governance, risk management, and KPI reporting while ensuring delivery quality and velocity. English fluency is essential for stakeholder engagement and strategic direction.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering software, with multi-team programmes.
• Proven track record in program/engineering management roles.
• Experience leading migrations and feature parity on timelines.
• Hands-on leadership with strategic and day-to-day involvement.
• Strong delivery-predictability and risk management.
• Experience across multiple teams with dependencies across them.
• Solid architectural awareness for migration risk and trade-offs.
• Familiar with Agile delivery and project-management practices.
• Certifications (PMP, PgMP, PSM/CSM) are a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the full programme, including client migration and feature parity from planning to release.
• Lead multiple delivery teams and ensure alignment of dependencies and priorities.
• Stay hands-on to unblock teams and drive technical and delivery decisions.
• Own migration planning, cutover sequencing, risk and rollback planning.
• Drive feature parity with no loss of functionality for clients.
• Interface with senior stakeholders, reporting status, risks and forecasts.
• Translate business goals into executable roadmaps and capacity plans.
• Establish and track metrics such as delivery predictability and milestone burn-up.
• Line-manage delivery leads and engineers; evolve ways of working.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and architecture to maintain coherence.

Skills

Senior leadership

Program management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder mgmt

Jira

Cloud migration

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Business

Tools

Jira

Roadmapping tools

Gantt tools

Job description

Senior Program / Engineering Manager (#5505)

Poland, Ukraine

Work type:

Office/Remote

Technical Level:

Senior

Job Category:

Project Management

Project:

N-iX is looking for a Senior Program / Engineering Manager to join the project and own the programme end-to-end.

Our client - the world's leading corporate domain registrar - helps global enterprises manage their domain portfolios and protect their brands from online threats. The programme consolidates the group's previously separate web platforms onto a single, modernised system on AWS, delivering client migration and full feature parity against a firm timeline.

This is a senior leadership role, but a hands-on one: you will set direction and be accountable for outcomes across multiple delivery teams and workstreams, while staying involved in the day-to-day — unblocking teams, steering technical and delivery decisions, and keeping the migration and feature-parity tracks moving in lockstep. You will be the primary delivery owner facing stakeholders, translating business priorities into an executable plan and reporting reliable, defensible status against it.

Responsibilities:

• Own delivery of the full programme - client migration and feature parity projects from planning through to release, accountable for scope, timeline, quality, and predictability.
• Lead and coordinate multiple delivery teams and workstreams, ensuring dependencies, sequencing, and priorities stay aligned across the migration and parity tracks.
• Stay hands-on day-to-day: remove impediments, drive technical and delivery decisions, and keep momentum rather than managing purely from a distance.
• Own the migration plan - cutover sequencing, risk and rollback planning, and data/feature validation - so clients move onto the consolidated platform smoothly and on schedule.
• Drive feature parity: ensure legacy capabilities are fully mapped, prioritised, and delivered on the new stack with no loss of functionality clients depend on.
• Be the primary delivery interface to senior MarkMonitor stakeholders — reporting status, risks, and forecasts with transparency, and managing expectations across time zones.
• Translate business goals into a clear, executable roadmap and capacity plan, balancing delivery pace against quality and technical debt.
• Establish and track the metrics that give leadership confidence — delivery predictability, throughput, milestone burn-up, and programme-level risk.
• Line-manage and grow delivery leads, Scrum Masters, and engineers; set ways of working and raise the maturity of the teams over time.
• Partner with Product Owners and architecture to keep scope, priorities, and technical direction coherent across the programme.

Requirements:

• 7+ years in software delivery, including senior program- or engineering-management ownership of complex, multi-team programmes.
• Proven experience as a Program Manager, Engineering Manager, or Delivery Lead on complex, multi-team engagements.
• Proven track record leading platform migrations and consolidations — ideally including client cutovers and feature-parity efforts on a firm timeline.
• Genuinely hands-on leadership style: comfortable operating at both the strategic and day-to-day level, close enough to the work to make and unblock decisions.
• Strong delivery-predictability focus — able to forecast, report defensibly, and keep a programme on track in an imperfect, fast-moving environment.
• Experience owning delivery across multiple teams and workstreams with dependencies between them.
• Solid technical grounding - enough to engage credibly on architecture, migration risk, and engineering trade-offs
• Practical command of Agile delivery and project-management practices, and the judgement to blend them pragmatically (overseeing and guiding SMs on the project)
• Relevant certifications (PMP, PgMP, PSM/CSM) are a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management, including direct ownership of senior client relationships across time zones.
• Experience in the software development/engineering/outsourcing industry is a must.
• English: Advanced / fluent - you will work directly with US- and UK-based stakeholders.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field (Computer Science, Engineering, Business) or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with delivery and planning tooling (Jira, roadmapping/Gantt tools) is preferred.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing