Enterprise AI Platform Engineering Manager

Ascensus; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise AI Platform to lead a cross‑functional team, delivering production‑grade AI software. You will mentor software engineers, SDETs, DevOps, and support engineers, balancing people leadership with hands‑on technical work to move initiatives quickly and reliably.

The role emphasizes coaching, architectural collaboration, and building an operating model for modern AI‑enabled software delivery, while maintaining quality, security, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering or related technical experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership, team leadership, people leadership, or engineering management experience.
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring software engineers or related technical team members.
• Ability and willingness to stay technically engaged with the team’s codebase, architecture, development workflow, and operational tooling, including occasional hands‑on contribution when needed.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including: Clean code, Source control, Unit testing, CI/CD, Design patterns, Refactoring, Maintainability, Production support.
• Experience working with software delivery teams that include Software Engineers, SDETs, DevOps Engineers, Support Engineers, Quality Engineers.
• Experience supporting production software systems, including troubleshooting, incident response, root‑cause analysis, or operational improvement.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and modern engineering team workflows.
• Ability to develop associates through coaching, feedback, goal setting, performance conversations, and career development planning.
• Ability to create a high‑performance team environment built on ownership, accountability, trust, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Strong problem‑solving, prioritization, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to partner with product, architecture, operations, support, and business teams to drive successful outcomes.
• Experience participating in hiring, interviewing, candidate evaluation, or team growth activities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Business Information Systems, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Grow and develop engineering talent.
• Create a high‑performance team culture.
• Support delivery of enterprise AI platform capabilities.
• Improve engineering practices across software development, testing, DevOps, support, and operations.
• Partner with product, architecture, AI, business, and technology leaders.
• Help the team move quickly while maintaining quality, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Occasionally contribute hands‑on to implementation, debugging, automation, technical spikes, or code reviews when needed.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

People leadership

Coaching engineers

Agile delivery

Communication

Problem solving

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/IS or related)

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise AI Platform to lead a cross‑functional team, delivering production‑grade AI software. You will mentor software engineers, SDETs, DevOps, and support engineers, balancing people leadership with hands‑on technical work to move initiatives quickly and reliably.

The role emphasizes coaching, architectural collaboration, and building an operating model for modern AI‑enabled software delivery, while maintaining quality, security, and