Manager II, Innovation and Technology Management

Schneider Electric Corp; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Flexible work arrangements

Paid holidays

Paid time off

401(k) with match

Learning platforms

Job summary

Schneider Electric seeks an experienced engineering leader to steer a platform and developer experience team in Boston. You will own backlog discovery, translate needs into technical work, and drive strategic directions that improve reliability and security of shared infrastructure.

You will coach engineers, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and promote best practices across the organization while balancing new capabilities with ongoing operational needs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading technical initiatives and delivering software in an agile environment.
• 5+ years of experience managing and developing software engineers, including performance coaching, career development, and performance reviews.
• Experience leading a platform, enablement, developer experience, or infrastructure engineering team, with responsibility for technical direction and delivery.
• Experience with discovery and prioritization across a broad engineering backlog, including identifying engineering needs, evaluating opportunities, balancing competing priorities, and making informed trade-offs based on business impact and effort.
• Experience partnering with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to understand pain points, uncover unmet needs, and translate them into actionable, prioritized work.
• Strong technical leadership skills, including guiding technical decisions, promoting engineering best practices, and delivering reliable, maintainable, and secure software and infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence decisions, build alignment, and explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance planned improvements with operational needs, and drive successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Owns discovery and prioritization across the team's backlog, balancing competing needs and determining where the team can deliver the greatest value.
• Plans and directs the team's day-to-day work, removes obstacles, and creates an environment where the team can be successful.
• Provides technical leadership by translating needs into well-defined technical work and guiding technical decisions.
• Promotes engineering best practices and focuses on reliability, security, and maintainability of software and infrastructure.
• Coaches and develops engineers through mentoring, feedback, and performance reviews.
• Serves as the primary engineering contact for priorities, progress, risks, and opportunities to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Engineering management

Backlog prioritization

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Decision making

Problem solving

Tools

Python

Django

JavaScript/TypeScript

Docker

AWS CDK

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Leads a high-performing platform and developer experience engineering team that improves engineering effectiveness and maintains the health, reliability, and security of shared application infrastructure and capabilities. Partners with engineers and stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs, identify improvement opportunities, and translate them into a prioritized backlog of work that maximizes business impact and engineering productivity. Owns discovery and prioritization across the team's backlog, balancing competing needs, evaluating trade-offs, and determining where the team can deliver the greatest value. Plans and directs the team's day-to-day work, removes obstacles, and creates an environment where the team can be successful.

Provides technical leadership by collaborating with engineers to translate identified needs into well-defined technical work, guiding technical decisions, and promoting engineering best practices. Helps the team balance new capabilities and developer experience improvements with ongoing operational responsibilities and long-term platform health. Identifies opportunities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, reliability, and security, and advocates for the tools, systems, and investments needed to achieve these outcomes. Serves as the primary engineering point of contact for the team's work and communicates priorities, progress, risks, and opportunities to engineering leadership and stakeholders across the organization.

Coaches and develops engineers through mentoring, regular feedback, career guidance, and performance reviews. Creates an environment where engineers take ownership of their work, collaborate effectively with teams across the organization, and continue to grow their technical and professional skills.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading technical initiatives and delivering software in an agile environment.
• 5+ years of experience managing and developing software engineers, including performance coaching, career development, and performance reviews.
• Experience leading a platform, enablement, developer experience, or infrastructure engineering team, with responsibility for technical direction and delivery.
• Experience with discovery and prioritization across a broad engineering backlog, including identifying engineering needs, evaluating opportunities, balancing competing priorities, and making informed trade-offs based on business impact and effort.
• Experience partnering with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to understand pain points, uncover unmet needs, and translate them into actionable, prioritized work.
• Strong technical leadership skills, including guiding technical decisions, promoting engineering best practices, and delivering reliable, maintainable, and secure software and infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence decisions, build alignment, and explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance planned improvements with operational needs, and drive successful outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with technologies used in our development environment, such as Python, Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Docker, AWS CDK and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure, such as Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Aurora, and OpenSearch.
• Experience maintaining and evolving legacy applications, with sound architectural judgment ab out when to optimize or refactor existing systems versus extract services, balancing maintainability, scalability, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development workflows, ideally including autonomous, cloud-based coding agents.

At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.

Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits- it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.

For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 142,400 - USD 213,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you

Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:

Care for Yourself and Your Family.

• medical (with member reward points)
• dental
• vision
• basic life insurance
• Benefit Bucks
• flexible work arrangements
• paid family leaves
• well-being programs
• 12 holidays per year
• 15 days of paid time off per year

Invest and Plan Your Future.

• base salary
• incentives
• company share ownership
• 401(k) with match

Grow Your Skills and Career.

• performance discussions
• global opportunities
• the Schneider Career Hub
• learning platforms like Coursera

Team Up in the Workplace.

• collaboration
• recognition
• sharing your voice
• an inclusive workplace

Support Your Community.

• volunteer leave
• programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation
• youth education initiatives
• military leave benefits

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We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

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