Senior Manager Software Engineering

Acuity Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Inc. in Cork is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing software engineering team delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions.

You will participate in architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery excellence within an Agile Release Train. The role combines people and technical leadership, requires hands-on engagement, and collaboration with product, architecture, DevOps, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams in modern product or platform organizations.
• Strong people leadership experience including coaching, mentoring, hiring, and organizational development.
• Previous hands-on software engineering experience delivering cloud-native applications and services.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and modern development practices.
• Experience working within Agile environments and preferably within SAFe frameworks.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, automation, infrastructure, testing, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, coach, and develop software engineers of varying levels of experience.
• Build and maintain a high-performing engineering organization focused on quality, customer value, and technical excellence.
• Support career development through coaching, performance management, and development planning.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development activities.
• Partner with Lead Engineers and Architects to ensure engineering decisions support long-term platform sustainability.
• Remain actively engaged in technical discussions, architecture reviews, design reviews, and engineering planning activities.
• Provide guidance on software architecture, cloud-native design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and security.
• Help teams navigate complex technical challenges and architectural trade-offs.
• Promote engineering excellence through modern software development practices, testing, automation, observability, and DevOps.
• Support critical production incidents, root cause analysis efforts, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead engineering execution for Agile teams operating within an Agile Release Train (ART).
• Partner with Product Management and Delivery Leads to align engineering capacity with product priorities and PI objectives.
• Support PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Drive predictable, high-quality software delivery through planning, execution, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with DevOps, CloudOps, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Architecture teams.
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Business organizations.
• Communicate engineering priorities, delivery status, technical risks, and organizational objectives.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, workforce planning, and organizational growth strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching & mentoring

Cloud-native

Agile SAFe

CI/CD & DevOps

Distributed systems

APIs

Communication

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people's lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at .

Job Summary

At the Acuity Digital Center of Excellence in Cork, we are building a modern AI-powered Commerce Platform delivered through Agile teams operating on an Agile Release Train (ART) aligned to Essential SAFe principles. Our teams build cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled services, and digital commerce capabilities that transform how customers discover, configure, purchase, and interact with our products and services. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineering professionals delivering secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native solutions. This role combines people leadership, technical leadership, and delivery excellence. While this is primarily a leadership position, successful candidates will need to remain technically engaged. You will participate in architecture reviews, guide technical decision-making working with lead engineers, coach engineers of all levels, review designs, support operational excellence initiatives, and help teams solve complex engineering challenges.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

Engineering Leadership

• Lead, mentor, coach, and develop software engineers of varying levels of experience.
• Build and maintain a high-performing engineering organization focused on quality, customer value, and technical excellence.
• Support career development through coaching, performance management, and development planning.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development activities.
• Partner with Lead Engineers and Architects to ensure engineering decisions support long-term platform sustainability.

Technical Leadership & Hands-On Engagement

• Remain actively engaged in technical discussions, architecture reviews, design reviews, and engineering planning activities.
• Provide guidance on software architecture, cloud-native design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and security.
• Help teams navigate complex technical challenges and architectural trade-offs.
• Promote engineering excellence through modern software development practices, testing, automation, observability, and DevOps.
• Support critical production incidents, root cause analysis efforts, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Delivery Excellence

• Lead engineering execution for Agile teams operating within an Agile Release Train (ART).
• Partner with Product Management and Delivery Leads to align engineering capacity with product priorities and PI objectives.
• Support PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Drive predictable, high-quality software delivery through planning, execution, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with DevOps, CloudOps, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Architecture teams.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Business organizations.
• Communicate engineering priorities, delivery status, technical risks, and organizational objectives.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, workforce planning, and organizational growth strategies.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams in modern product or platform organizations.
• Strong people leadership experience including coaching, mentoring, hiring, and organizational development.
• Previous hands-on software engineering experience delivering cloud-native applications and services.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and modern development practices.
• Experience working within Agile environments and preferably within SAFe frameworks.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, automation, infrastructure, testing, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience building AI-enabled products, machine learning solutions, or data-intensive platforms.
• Experience leading teams delivering digital commerce or platform engineering solutions.
• Experience with Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
• Previous experience as a software engineer using Python, Go,

Other

• Agile: Scrum, Kanban, Essential SAFe, Jira, Azure DevOps
• Collaboration: Confluence, Miro, Microsoft Teams
• Development & Platform: Git, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
• Engineering Practices: CI/CD, GitOps, Automated Testing, DevSecOps, Observability

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation in the Application Process: Acuity Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws requiring reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities in employment. This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation in the application process. If you believe you need reasonable accommodation to assist with our online application system or any aspect of the application process, please contact Human Resources at , and select option 4. Please be prepared to identify the requisition / position applied for and the aspect of the application process for which you believe accommodation is needed. The company will engage in an interactive process with you to better understand the request and to determine whether reasonable accommodation is needed and available.