Fast Facts

SEI is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a development team in delivering high-quality software solutions while mentoring team members and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities: Lead and mentor a development team, support development and implementation of solutions, collaborate on security best practices, contribute to technical decisions, and monitor team performance.

Skills: Experience in software development, architectural principles, database technologies (SQL), modern development languages (Ruby on Rails, NodeJS), cloud platforms (AWS), and project management tools (Jira).

Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field with 6-8 years of relevant experience and 2-4 years in a leadership role; Cloud Architect/Developer certification is preferred.

Location: United States of America

Compensation: $116300 - $174500 / Annually

The Engineering Manager will lead a development team to deliver high-quality software solutions, mentor team members, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute on technical roadmaps.

This role involves leading and mentoring a development team while contributing to technical decisions and project execution. The ideal candidate will have hands-on development experience and emerging leadership skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the development and implementation of engineering solutions within your team.
• Lead and mentor a development team, potentially including remote team members.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure security best practices are followed.
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and help execute on engineering roadmaps.
• Document systems and processes while implementing best practice engineering methods.
• Support team growth and development initiatives.
• Provide regular project updates to leadership and help implement engineering best practices.
• Monitor team performance metrics and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Champion agile processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Skills:

•  Demonstrated ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems - technical, product and people.
• Track record of employing high-quality architectural principles, and identifying and choosing between multiple architectural options.
• Working knowledge of database technologies such as SQL and relational database concepts.
• Basic familiarity with modern development languages and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, or similar technologies.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms like AWS or similar services.
• Working knowledge of project management tools such as Jira.
• Experience working with user-facing content management systems and websites is a plus.
• Experience working in an agile environment.     
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to influence at all levels in the organization.
• Passion for solving problems in education sector is a plus.'

Work Experience:

• 6-8 years of relevant experience
• 2-4 years leadership experience. Experience working with or leading remote team members (preferred).
• Experience implementing engineering best practices within a team environment.
• Experience contributing to team development and mentoring junior engineers.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field required or established experience.

Certificates, licenses and registrations:

• GCP Cloud Architect/AWS Solutions Architect
• GCP Cloud Developer/AWS Associate Developer
• GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer/AWS Cloud Ops Engineer

Other:

• Must be able to travel occasionally should a business need arise. For most roles travel would not be common. Travel may involve plane, car or metro. In accordance with ADA policies, reasonable accommodations regarding travel limitations can be provided. Travel will be more common for roles such as Account Executives (25 - 50%), senior leaders (10 – 20%) or Capella Core Faculty (5 – 10%). 
• Ability to work onsite in Corporate or Campus location (in a typical office environment) may be required based on role. If so, this would include being mobile within the office, including movement from floor-to-floor using elevators or stairs.
• If offsite or hybrid role, must have access to work in setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at a remote location.
• Faculty and Federal Work Study roles require access to work in setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including computer, privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at a remote location.
• This role may require lifting, however reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with our ADA policies.
• Must be able to meet critical thinking and problem solving aspects aligned to job duties, as well as effectively communicating with co-workers.
• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant. Accommodations related to schedule may be considered. 
• Able to access information using a computer.
• Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

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SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week. In addition to medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts. Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime pay, if applicable.

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SEI is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture where individuals can grow their careers and contribute fully. We strive to attract talent with broad experiences, skills and perspectives. We welcome applications from all. While it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the pay range at SEI, we offer a competitive salary. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal pay equity. Our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to discuss your interest in joining SEI. The expected salary range for this position is below.

$116,300.00 - $174,500.00 - Salary

If you require reasonable accommodations to complete our application process, please contact our Human Resources Department at [email protected].