Engineering Squad Lead — People & Delivery Champion

Phase2 Technology; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Phase2 Technology is seeking an Engineering Manager, Lead to guide one or more squads with a focus on people leadership, predictable delivery, and transparent communication. You will manage squad-level execution, maintain sprint plans, delivery milestones, risk tracking, and conduct reviews to readiness for launch.

Collaborate with product management and tech leadership to resolve trade-offs, while upholding secure-by-design practices.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering software in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong people leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to balance technical architecture with delivery needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and grow engineers while building a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable squad.
• Own squad-level execution, ensuring planned work is clearly defined, prioritized, tracked, and communicated throughout each sprint and iteration.
• Establish and maintain required engineering artifacts, including sprint plans, delivery plans, key decisions, risks, dependencies, and milestone tracking.
• Provide timely, accurate, and transparent status reporting, including burndown, milestone progress, percentage completeness, critical path risks, and delivery forecasts.
• Facilitate sprint reviews, feature reviews, and milestone readiness discussions to demonstrate progress and identify gaps to launch readiness.
• Proactively identify schedule, scope, quality, resource, and dependency risks, and work with product management and technical leadership to resolve trade-offs.
• Maintain clear evidence of feature and "go-live" readiness, and communicate changes in delivery confidence as work progresses.
• Monitor and communicate squad-level operational health, including availability, uptime, incident trends, code quality, test coverage, scalability, security, and cost.
• Ensure consistent execution of deployment safety practices, on-call rotations, incident response, and other operational processes.
• Support secure-by-design practices, compliance requirements, threat modeling, and appropriate coordination before production changes.
• Partner closely with product management on roadmap feasibility, prioritization, sequencing, experimentation, and delivery trade-offs.

Job description

Phase2 Technology is seeking an Engineering Manager, Lead to guide one or more squads with a focus on people leadership, predictable delivery, and transparent communication. You will manage squad-level execution, maintain sprint plans, delivery milestones, risk tracking, and conduct reviews to readiness for launch.

Collaborate with product management and tech leadership to resolve trade-offs, while upholding secure-by-design practices.