Engineering Manager

Energy Innovation Corp; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 126,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth path into tech

Personal mentor

Home-like benefits

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield in Chicago, IL is seeking an Engineering Manager to elevate Initiative systems from fragile to bulletproof. You will lead architecture, guide cross-functional teams, and translate ideas into practical, scalable solutions using Kafka and Ansible.

Autonomy is balanced with mentorship and a collaborative culture. Expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a focus on delivering reliable technology.

Qualifications

• 6 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate ideas into practical implementations (Kafka, Ansible).

Responsibilities

• Ship incremental improvements to Cushman & Wakefield's Chicago platform on a regular cadence.
• Walk technology stakeholders through CI/CD tradeoffs in language execs grasp.
• Translate a napkin idea from founders into a Kafka low-drama prototype.
• Reverse-engineer the genuinely-flexible Agile format inherited and never documented.
• Slice the craft-focused technology monolith into Ansible services Chicago, IL can deploy alone.

Skills

Strong communicator

Collaborative

Attention to detail

Decision making

Adaptive learner

Tools

Ansible

Kafka

CI/CD

Job description

Trade your current backlog for ours: Cushman & Wakefield needs an Engineering Manager in Chicago, IL to take Initiative systems from fragile to bulletproof. Consider the trade: your 8 years of Ansible for $126,000 - $204,000, an internship schedule, and ownership most shops never offer.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship incremental improvements to Cushman & Wakefield's Chicago platform on a regular cadence
• Walk technology stakeholders through CI/CD tradeoffs in language Cushman & Wakefield execs grasp
• Translate a napkin idea from Cushman & Wakefield founders into a Kafka low-drama prototype
• Reverse-engineer the genuinely-flexible Agile format Cushman & Wakefield inherited and never documented
• Slice the craft-focused technology monolith into Ansible services Chicago, IL can deploy alone

What You'll Bring

• A communicator who writes the meeting recap nobody asked for but everyone reads
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, deeply collaborative environment
• A collaborator who makes the manager review feel less like an exam
• 6 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses

Cushman & Wakefield doesn't sell technology so much as guarantee it, a candidly-kind distinction the Chicago, IL team takes personally. Autonomy here comes with a partner: ask for help the moment you're stuck on Kafka.

Sign on for $126,000 - $204,000, gain a growth path into technology, a personal mentor, and benefits that make Chicago feel like home.

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