Sr Manager Engineering, QA Performance

Team Description 

As part of the ADO team under GPTO Engineering, you’ll report to the Sr. Director Engineering. This team is accountable for Quality/Performance assuring enterprise data architecture, enabling high-performance AI-driven workloads, and acting as a technical bridge between engineering and architecture. 

Your Impact 

Team Leadership & Development 

• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team based on actual demand and delivery needs 

• Provide hands-on coaching and guidance to Principal Engineers and team members, fostering technical excellence and career growth 

• Quickly establish trust with team members, peers, and stakeholders through authentic engagement and delivery 

• Champion engineering culture that balances pragmatic delivery with sustainable practices 

Delivery Excellence 

• Drive fast-paced, continuous delivery practices—leading the transformation from monthly to daily release cycles 

• Balance process rigor with delivery velocity; know when documentation adds value and when it creates friction 

• Apply and evangelize proper use of DORA metrics to measure and improve team performance 

• Ensure platform capabilities for data processing, AI, and developer acceleration ship reliably and on schedule 

• Take ownership of delivery outcomes; work proactively with Product Management without waiting for perfect requirements 

Technical Strategy & Collaboration 

• Partner closely with architects to align implementation patterns with long-term technical direction 

• Create clear, compelling strategy papers, roadmaps, and presentations for technical and executive audiences 

• Collaborate across globally distributed teams with awareness of time zone considerations and asynchronous work patterns 

• Guide teams in embedding AI/ML features—prompt engineering, model inference, feature pipelines—into platform services 

• Contribute to technical planning, architecture decisions, and incident retrospectives 

Platform & Product Mindset 

• Apply product thinking to platform solutions, ensuring they meet real business and customer needs 

• Champion innovation in performance, tooling, and platform capabilities 

• Oversee design and delivery of full stack solutions spanning React, Java, and Python 

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, and architecture 

Your Qualifications 

Leadership & Management 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering management or technical leadership 

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