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SEI is seeking a Sr. Manager of Engineering to lead a senior engineering team in transforming bold ideas into impactful solutions across the organization.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include defining and scaling engineering solutions, managing cross-functional teams, ensuring security of information systems, and driving architectural and technological decision-making.

Skills: Required skills include extensive experience in engineering management, understanding of various database technologies, proficiency in modern development frameworks, and excellent communication abilities.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field, 10+ years of engineering experience, and a track record of managing diverse engineering teams effectively.

Location: Location is United States of America, with potential travel required (up to 10%).

Compensation: $130300 - $195500 / Annually

Join our Transformation Office and lead a senior engineering team that converts bold ideas into business-changing results. As Sr. Manager of Engineering, you’ll be the technical heartbeat of cross-functional initiatives—partnering in discovery on academic and operations initiatives—then shaping solution strategies, validating them through rapid experimentation, and scaling what works across the enterprise.

Beyond producing great software solutions, you’ll be a multiplier. You’ll recruit and develop top talent, coach teams to operate with autonomy and accountability, and put in place modern engineering practices (CI/CD, automated testing, observability, SLOs) that unlock sustained velocity. You’ll influence roadmaps, clarify priorities, and create strong feedback loops with stakeholders so the team always works on the most impactful problems.

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Define, launch, and scale engineering and technical solutions across multiple teams.
• Manage engineering teams and external vendors across multiple geographies and
• time zones.
• Ensure security and integrity of all information systems and data.
• Influence and drive technical architecture and key technology decisions to build for
• the long-term, while managing roadmaps and business needs.
• Document systems and processes while implementing best practice engineering methods.
• Build out additional engineering teams and capabilities as needed in alignment with business objectives.
• Provide regular updates to senior management and peers about ongoing and future projects. Assist in creating and managing adoption of IT governance controls
• across various technical applications.
• Own engineering operational excellence, including creation of and monitoring metrics for continuous improvement.
• 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.
• Solid understanding of Database technologies such as SQL, PostgreSQL, and relational database schema design.
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, NodeJS,
• NextJS and other modern development languages and frameworks (direct experience is a plus),
• Familiarity with AWS (direct experience is a plus).
• Proficiency with tools such as Jira (advanced proficiency is a plus).
• 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:

• 10+ years of experience working in engineering space required.
• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• 1 to 2 years of experience managing offshore development team(s).
• 1 to 2 years of experience defining and scaling best-in-class engineering principles across multiple engineering teams.
• 1 to 2 years of experience building world-class engineering teams.

Education:

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

Other:

• Must be able to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Must be able to lift 25 lbs.
• Typical office setting.
• Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor.
• Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job.
• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant.
• Access information using a computer.
• Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain.
• Effectively cope with stressful situations.
• Strong mental acuity.
• Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job.
• 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.

$130,300.00 - $195,500.00 - Salary

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