AI-First Engineering Manager, Cloud Delivery & Client Impact

Presidio; Woburn (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Presidio is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a hands-on product engineering team focused on cloud-native, AI-first applications. You will own delivery excellence, drive talent development, and align engagements to measurable business outcomes with GenAI-enabled solutions.

You will guide architecture and adoption of modern practices (DevSecOps, microservices) while supporting pre-sales and client relationships across complex engagements. Travel 0–30% is possible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead capacity.
• Hands-on full-stack expertise (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Node.js, React, Angular) plus familiarity with data technologies (SQL, Spark, Databricks), built on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with modern practices like microservices, containers, serverless, and infrastructure as code.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM and GenAI applications (RAG, agents, orchestration, evaluation, and guardrails), plus using GenAI coding tools like Kiro and GitHub Copilot to deliver faster.
• Strong consultative and communication skills: executive presence, leading client workshops and briefings, and problem-discovery that connects delivery to measurable business outcomes.
• Proven people leadership: coaching engineers, managing conflict and escalations with integrity, and delivering in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Willingness and ability to travel 0–30% as engagement needs require.

Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing team of engineers and architects into forward-deployed, consultative professionals.
• Provide clear goals, actionable feedback, and career progression pathways aligned to senior, lead, and architect roles.
• Attract, hire, and onboard talent capable of operating in client-facing, ambiguous environments and delivering impact from day one.
• Partner with Legal and HR advisory teams to manage employees' immigration paperwork and related compliance needs.
• Drive talent development plans that build bench strength, close capability gaps, and support career growth across the team.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of client engagements, ensuring high-quality outcomes that build trust and drive long-term relationships.
• Own engagement success by aligning execution to business value, maintaining focus on intended outcomes, and managing risks proactively.
• Provide clarity and direction during complex or high-pressure situations, enabling teams to navigate ambiguity and deliver results.
• Stay close to the work by guiding architecture, design, and adoption of modern engineering practices (cloud-native, DevSecOps, AI/GenAI).
• Serve as an engagement executive as needed, providing senior-level oversight and escalation support on key client engagements.
• Partner with clients to define problems, frame solutions, and connect engineering decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• Support pre-sales and account teams by contributing to solutioning, scoping, and SOW development to expand engagements.
• Identify new opportunities by anticipating client needs and surfacing challenges to sales and account leadership.
• Support verticals and markets in understanding pipeline and emerging trend needs to inform delivery and staffing strategy.
• Align the right talent to the right engagements based on skills, capacity, and client requirements.
• Monitor team utilization, capacity, and capability gaps to optimize resource allocation and delivery readiness.
• Ensure team members maintain current skills, certifications, and updated profiles to support staffing, proposals, and career growth.
• Work through staffing and talent strategies to align resourcing decisions with practice and engagement needs.
• Contribute to practice growth by supporting operational needs such as RFP responses, contract reviews, staffing inputs, and cross-functional coordination.
• Promote continuous learning and capability development to strengthen team expertise and market competitiveness.
• Represent the organization through industry engagement (forums, conferences, thought leadership) to enhance brand visibility and credibility.
• Create thought leadership collateral for the practice, covering offerings and capabilities to support market positioning.

Skills

Java

C#

Python

Node.js

React

Angular

SQL

Spark

Databricks

Cloud platforms

GenAI apps

Executive presence

Agile (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Presidio is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a hands-on product engineering team focused on cloud-native, AI-first applications. You will own delivery excellence, drive talent development, and align engagements to measurable business outcomes with GenAI-enabled solutions.

You will guide architecture and adoption of modern practices (DevSecOps, microservices) while supporting pre-sales and client relationships across complex engagements. Travel 0–30% is possible.