Manager, Software Engineering, Content Automations

Cengage Group; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 101,900 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Total Rewards package

Discretionary incentive bonus program

Job summary

A leading educational technology company is seeking a Technical Leader to drive AI-first solutions and automation initiatives. Collaborating with teams, you will optimize workflows and enhance existing platforms. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and over three years of leadership experience in technology. Proficiency in cloud platforms and AI technologies is crucial. The role offers a competitive salary range of $101,900 - $140,000 with bonus eligibility, promoting a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technology leadership experience, including developing technology strategies.
• Solid understanding of AI concepts, technologies, and methods, including machine learning.
• Experience maintaining and/or modernizing legacy architectures and migrating to cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with content teams to analyze workflows and design AI-first solutions.
• Lead automation initiatives, collaborating with engineering teams.
• Drive the development of AI-powered tools through prototyping and continuous improvement.

Skills

Technology Leadership

Generative AI Concepts

Cloud Platform Development

Software Engineering

Agile Methodologies

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

What you’ll do here

• Partner with content teams to analyze current workflows, identify automation opportunities, and design AI‑first solutions that improve efficiency and quality.
• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of automation initiatives, collaborating with onsite and offshore engineering teams as well as cross‑functional partners across the organization.
• Drive development of AI‑powered tools through prototyping (POCs), enhancements, and continuous improvement of existing platforms.
• Work closely with Product Managers and business partners to deliver innovative, scalable solutions while ensuring alignment to engineering guidelines in developing, implementation, and operations.
• Lead, coach, and grow a high‑performing engineering team focused on quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Reimagine and optimize content creation workflows using modern platforms, automation, and generative AI.
• Engage in driving POM Discovery activities including continuous customer engagement, both internal and external, to derive solutions that meet end user, company, and technology goals.
• Track quality and efficiency improvements through well instrumented SDLC tools and report progress to executive teams.
• Balance technical debt and other maintenance activities alongside new feature development within each sprint.
• Work with partners and customers to establish and handle product backlogs, product estimates and budgets.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends to inject continuous innovation into our product roadmaps.

Skills you’ll need here

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of technology leadership experience, including developing technology strategies, fostering innovation, and leading globally distributed teams.

Generative AI & Emerging Technologies

• Solid understanding of AI concepts, technologies and methods, including machine learning, language, reasoning & multimodal models, prompt & context engineering, developing and using skills & agent frameworks, RAG, and vector databases.
• Hands‑on experience integrating or experimenting with commercial and open‑source GenAI technologies and toolkits (e.g., coding assistants, OpenAI CODEX, LangChain).

Architecture & Cloud Platforms

• Experience in maintaining and/or modernizing legacy or monolithic architectures, migrating systems to modular, cloud‑native platforms, and implementing hybrid cloud strategies.
• Ability to design and develop APIs that integrate legacy systems with modern solutions.
• Comfortable designing and deploying cloud‑native solutions on AWS, GCP, or Azure, using containers, serverless, and cloud storage/compute services.

Software Engineering & Product Delivery

• Proven ability to build secure, resilient, scalable, high‑availability enterprise systems for global user bases.
• Strong experience with agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and tooling such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Proven success organizing teams and delivery around a Product Operating Model.

Collaboration & Communication

• Demonstrated skills in working with cross‑functional teams in distributed, remote‑first environments.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences, including executives.

Compensation

At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here (https://www.cengagegroup.com/news/perspectives/2024/cengage-group-total-rewards-philosophy/) to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.

The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.

In this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program. This position’s bonus target amount, which is not guaranteed and is dependent on individual performance and overall company results among other factors, is provided below.

15% Annual: Individual Target

$101,900.00 - $140,000.00 USD

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