Engineering Manager – Translational Data Science

University of Chicago; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Chicago's Center for Translational Data Science seeks an Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams, guiding delivery of critical projects and shaping engineering strategy.

You will oversee process improvements, mentor team leads, and ensure quality through standards, CI/CD, and modern architectures including microservices, containers, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).

Qualifications

• College or university degree required.
• 7+ years of related work experience.
• Certifications: none specified.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams and define strategy.
• Improve and manage engineering processes for efficiency.
• Participate in strategy execution and staffing.
• Oversee design and timely delivery of top priority tasks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor team leads.
• Advise on project and infrastructure needs including servers, languages, platforms.

Skills

Python

Golang

JavaScript

Agile methodologies

Mentoring

Education

Advanced degree in computer science/engineering/math/statistics

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL

Elasticsearch

Spark

Hadoop

AWS

GCP

OpenStack

GitHub Actions

Job description

The University of Chicago's Center for Translational Data Science seeks an Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams, guiding delivery of critical projects and shaping engineering strategy.

You will oversee process improvements, mentor team leads, and ensure quality through standards, CI/CD, and modern architectures including microservices, containers, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).