Engineering Manager

OpsWerks is a technical consulting company specializing in operational services for the high-tech industry. We help platform and infrastructure teams operate multi-cloud environments, execute complex migrations, and enable seamless app deployments.

Your Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role in shaping how we build and deliver software solutions. Though you won't be pushing code, reviewing PRs, or doing hands-on implementation, your technical experience will guide technical direction and decisions.

In this role, you will lead an engineering team at a strategic level - coaching, mentoring, orchestrating delivery, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will be instrumental in the continuous growth of your team, empowering them to deliver high-quality technical solutions, while ensuring productivity, strong collaboration, and alignment of team strategies with business objectives.

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Partner with Tech Leads to set best practices, coding standards, architectural guidelines, tool selection, and system design decisions.

• Ensure that technical solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with overall technology strategy.

• Stay up to date with the tech stack and emerging trends to challenge and evolve how we build.

People Management & Coaching

• Hire, mentor, and grow talent across roles.

• Conduct regular feedback and formal performance reviews.

• Foster a high-trust, psychologically safe environment where people feel comfortable raising technical concerns, proposing ideas, and learning from mistakes.

• Identify skill gaps, provide development paths, and coach your team members in both technical and soft-skills growth.

Strategy, Delivery & Execution

• Own and drive the team’s roadmap in alignment with business and technology goals.

• Oversee planning, estimation, timelines, and dependencies, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and with high quality.

• Work to remove blockers and optimize team workflows.

• Monitor engineering effectiveness via metrics, and continuously refine processes.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Solutions Architects, and other leaders to define scope, deliverables, trade-offs, and priorities.

• Ensure clear communication with stakeholders about progress, risks, and status of technical initiatives.

• Facilitate cross-team initiatives and ensure alignment across teams when architecture, data, or security concerns span beyond your team.

Your Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience in technical leadership roles, involving architecture, and system design.

• At least 3 years experience in managing high-performing development teams.

• A deep understanding of the said tech stack (such as but not limited to Python, JS, SQL and NoSQL databases, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, cloud platforms and container orchestration tools), enough to make informed decisions and guide others.

• Experience in giving feedback, conducting performance reviews, and growing people technically and professionally.

• Strong collaborations skills, able to work across functions, influence technical direction, and communicate with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

• A mindset of continuous improvement, always looking for ways to tools, practices, and processes.

• Ability to balance strategic thinking with delivery discipline.

Plus points in you have:

• Training or certifications in leadership, project management, or agile methodologies are a plus.