Infrastructure Console and Metadata Service Senior Engineering Manager

Hobbsnews; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hobbsnews is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – Infrastructure Console & Metadata Platform to lead the design and architecture of an enterprise solution. This role involves building and managing an engineering team while ensuring quality and performance objectives are met.

The ideal candidate will bring 8–12 years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on delivering enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include managing team performance, solution delivery, and fostering a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software/platform engineering with 8+ years managing engineering teams.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise platforms such as internal portals or operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and service architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage teams for workforce strategy and hiring.
• Facilitate performance and career development.
• Manage solution delivery and application performance.

Skills

Influence

Risk Management

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Analytical Thinking

Application Development

Collaboration

Result Orientation

Solution Delivery Process

Agile Practices

Architecture

Automation

Data Management

DevOps Practices

Tools

React

Angular

Java Core

MongoDB

Redis

Python

Job description

Overview

The Senior Engineering Manager – Infrastructure Console & Metadata Platform will lead the design, architecture, and delivery of an enterprise Infrastructure Console and its supporting Metadata Platform. The solution will provide a unified, self‑service experience for cloud onboarding and infrastructure enablement, while delivering financial management transparency (FinOps), operational visibility, and governance signals to customers and internal stakeholders.

This role is responsible for building and leading an engineering team to deliver a modern, extensible platform with clean APIs, consistent data models, secure access patterns, and high operational maturity. The initial MVP will launch on Azure, with architecture and delivery standards that enable expansion across AWS, GCP, and Private Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives.
• Facilitate performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans to build competencies and skills.
• Manage solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met.
• Manage relationships with business and technology partners and lead and create followership in Communities of Practice.
• Contribute to the technology strategy for their technical domain.
• Create an inclusive and healthy working environment and help resolve organizational impediments/blockers.
• Ensure execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders.

Managerial Responsibilities

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. In addition to the role‑specific responsibilities listed above, all managers at this level demonstrate the following:

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Model an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrate deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through simplicity, data‑based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicate enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connect to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Risk Manager: Ensure proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, elevate and debate issues.
• People Manager & Coach: Provide coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Financial Steward: Actively manage expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assess talent and build bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Deliver results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software/platform engineering with 8+ years managing engineering teams (hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery ownership).
• Proven experience delivering enterprise platforms (internal portals/console experiences, developer platforms, control planes, or operational tooling).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and service architecture (scalability, reliability, consistency tradeoffs, security, observability).
• Demonstrated delivery experience with APIs, service contracts, integration patterns, and lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, automated testing, and release engineering practices with high quality and operational rigor.
• Hands‑on familiarity with modern cloud‑native stacks, including containers/Kubernetes deployment models.
• Observability (metrics/logs/traces), operational monitoring and alerting.
• Technologies: React/Angular, Java Core, MongoDB/Redis, Python.
• Identity and access control patterns (authN/authZ, RBAC/ABAC concepts).
• Ability to lead cross‑functional alignment with FinOps, Security, SRE, Infrastructure, and Application stakeholders; strong executive communication skills.
• Excellent communication—can translate between executive outcomes, product requirements, and engineering delivery.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building metadata systems / system‑of‑record platforms (inventory, ownership, service catalogs, CMDB‑like patterns) with schema governance.
• FinOps exposure: cost allocation/tagging strategies, showback/chargeback, unit economics, or cloud cost optimization workflows.
• Experience designing multi‑cloud abstractions and provider integration patterns (Azure/AWS/GCP) and/or hybrid/on‑prem integration.
• Familiarity with event‑driven architecture (pub/sub), streaming, or change‑data‑capture patterns for maintaining metadata freshness.
• Experience with UX‑heavy internal products and partnering with design teams to deliver polished workflow experiences.
• Strong background in platform security and compliance automation (audit trails, policy‑as‑code concepts, evidence generation).

Skills

• Influence
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Automation
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40 hours per week