Senior Software Engineering Manager — Lead Large, Agile Teams

Petco; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Petco seeks a Sr Engineering leader to oversee the quality and content of complex products and projects, aligning to roadmaps and strategy. You will lead large teams of contractors and influence horizontally across the organization to deliver scalable systems in an Agile environment.

The role requires 8+ years of IT and business experience managing cross-functional teams, deep knowledge of SDLC, QA, and stakeholder management, plus hands-on design, coding, and mentoring of future IT leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related fields, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of IT and business industry work experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• Requires advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management and other related disciplines/processes.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, navigates, and overcomes technical and organizational barriers that may stand in the way of delivery
• Constantly improves the processes and practices around development and delivery
• Delivers reliable, highly available, and highly scalable systems in a Lean, agile, and domain driven engineering environment
• Effectively works with Product Managers, Program Managers and other stakeholders to ensure the business is provided with appropriate solutions
• Check and confirm the accuracy of the work performed and the methods used by engineering staff
• Create detailed engineering plans, processes, and procedures for engineering staff to use and abide by
• Hire, train, and supervise engineering team members
• Propose and oversee timelines for engineering projects
• Directs leaders of scrum teams
• Develops and implements validation tools
• Fosters and facilitates Agile methodologies
• Works in an agile environment using SCRUM or Kanban
• Works with Project Managers/leads to consume product backlog and generate technical design
• Designs solutions, writes and tests code
• Mentor/groom Lead engineers to be next IT leaders.
• Manage and Lead COTS evaluation that will improve SDLC efficiency for the team
• Review and work with vendor on RFP & Technical proposals.
• Manage financials for their team (budget, accruals, invoices, forecasts…etc)

Skills

Leadership

Agile

Cross-functional teams

SDLC

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems

Tools

SCRUM

Kanban

Job description

Petco seeks a Sr Engineering leader to oversee the quality and content of complex products and projects, aligning to roadmaps and strategy. You will lead large teams of contractors and influence horizontally across the organization to deliver scalable systems in an Agile environment.

The role requires 8+ years of IT and business experience managing cross-functional teams, deep knowledge of SDLC, QA, and stakeholder management, plus hands-on design, coding, and mentoring of future IT leaders.