Senior Digital Engineering Leader
Amtrak
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Job summary
Amtrak is seeking a Senior Manager of Digital Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for building and maintaining complex digital platforms. This role ensures alignment with enterprise architecture, security requirements, and modernization goals while guiding governance, budget planning, and scalable practices.
The position emphasizes talent development, succession planning, and delivering measurable business value through strategic engineering leadership and collaboration
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
- 9 years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership or people-management role.
- Experience delivering complex engineering solutions across multiple teams.
- Experience with modern engineering practices (e.g., DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation).
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, vision, and direction across multiple engineering teams delivering enterprise digital capabilities.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices, ensuring team adherence to coding standards, architectural principles, security requirements, and operational quality.
- Lead architectural and technical reviews to ensure technical integrity and future scalability.
- Track multi-team engineering performance through KPIs such as predictability, cycle time, defect rates, and reliability metrics and identify systemic delivery challenges and implement corrective actions.
- Oversee SLO/SLA adherence, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production support processes.
- Lead hiring, performance management, and succession planning for engineers and engineering leads.
- Serve as a key liaison between engineering, architecture, product, and business leaders.
- Drive efficiency and modernization through process and tooling improvements.
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Job description
Amtrak is seeking a Senior Manager of Digital Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for building and maintaining complex digital platforms. This role ensures alignment with enterprise architecture, security requirements, and modernization goals while guiding governance, budget planning, and scalable practices.
The position emphasizes talent development, succession planning, and delivering measurable business value through strategic engineering leadership and collaboration
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