Technical Manager — Cloud-Native Systems & Data

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc; Dublin (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment (3 days on‑sit

Excellent health coverage

Retirement plan contributions

Tuition reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Job summary

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc is seeking a hands-on Technical Manager for the Collective Collection Analytics team to guide a growing software engineering group in a modern cloud-native environment. You will balance coding and leadership, partnering with Product managers, owning architecture in AWS, and driving delivery, quality, and cost discipline through agile practices.

Join a mission-driven team at a renowned library technology org, with opportunities to influence data pipelines,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership role such as engineering manager or tech lead.
• Strong coding ability and system design depth, with demonstrated experience building and operating distributed services in production.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot services, React frontend development with data visualization libraries such as HighCharts, and modern cloud-native deployment patterns such as containers and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and container orchestration through EKS or ECS, with production operations experience in observability, on-call readiness, and incident management.
• Experience with search technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or SOLR, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Aurora, or RDS, including performance tuning and upgrade planning.
• Familiarity with API gateways and service routing, and designing stable, consumer-friendly APIs.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and automated testing strategies in an iterative delivery environment.
• Experience with custom ETL scripting, such as Python, for data integration and pipeline automation.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain architecture, risks, and tradeoffs to engineers, product partners, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile delivery and leading teams through iterative planning and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small cross-functional team of full stack developers and cloud engineers.
• Coach engineers, manage performance, and drive career development.
• Partner with Product Managers on roadmap execution.
• Own JIRA planning, sprints, and backlog management.
• Design and evolve AWS-based architecture with security and cost awareness.
• Define engineering standards for API design and patterns.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and release hygiene.
• Define automated testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Lead ETL and data integration using Python.
• Coordinate cross-team security, infra, data, and partner teams.
• Drive capacity planning and environment strategy across development, test, stage, and production.
• Evaluate new technologies and AI-enabled automation opportunities.

Skills

Strong coding ability

System design depth

Communication skills

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

React

AWS

EKS/ECS

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

SOLR

PostgreSQL/Aurora/RDS

CI/CD

Python

ETL scripting

Job description

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc is seeking a hands-on Technical Manager for the Collective Collection Analytics team to guide a growing software engineering group in a modern cloud-native environment. You will balance coding and leadership, partnering with Product managers, owning architecture in AWS, and driving delivery, quality, and cost discipline through agile practices.

Join a mission-driven team at a renowned library technology org, with opportunities to influence data pipelines,