The Position
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The Position
Title: Senior Engineering Manager
Position Type: Full time
Requisition No: 23047
Category: Administration
Supervisor: VP of Engineering
Last Updated: April 2023
Job Purpose: Manages the engineers, implementation and agile processes for new
software and systems solutions within Calbright College. This will be in close
partnership with Product Management and Production Operations teams.
Location: Remote, various locations throughout California
Salary Schedule: M-18, typical beginning range steps 1-3
$127,145.52-$140,201.76
Position Overview
Calbright is growing and working to transform our system design and further
mature many of our internal processes (agile SDLC, DevOps, Production Support)
to ensure we are on the best footing for future growth. This role will be
critical in leading many of these efforts related to our new software
development, integrations and new systems deployments.
The Sr. Engineering Manager will manage the assigned engineers, lead the agile
processes, partner closely with the Product team, partner closely with DevOps,
strive to set and hit schedule milestones, and oversee both critical software
and systems implementation best practices. While a majority of the work will
be related to software development and integrations, the implementation of the
related underlying systems and platforms are also critical to the role.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
The duties below are representative of the role and are not intended to cover
all of the duties performed within the scope of work.
Foster a team-oriented, inclusive, collaborative, and positive work
environment that builds and retains the best talent.
Manage a team of remote engineers that includes front-end software engineers,
back-end software engineers, QA engineers, DevOps and systems engineers. This
includes recruiting, ongoing career development, and redundancy planning.
Be the lead agile evangelist, act as the team’s Scrum Master and oversee the
implementation and adoption of agile practices within the team. Run daily
scrums and other agile ceremonies as the Scrum Master. This also includes
leading the selection and use of the agile tools. An effective partnership
with the Product Management team will be critical for success in the
management of the backlog and ensuring timely delivery that meets higher
schedule milestones and priorities.
Ensure that new software and systems solutions are well designed for fault-
tolerance, security, data retention and well-instrumented for production
support including monitoring, logging, alerting and documentation. An
effective partnership with the other engineering team members including Devops
will be critical for success.
Ensure engineering best practices are established and followed related to
source management, code reviews, architectural reviews, defect management,
CI/CD processes, and DevOps processes.
Ensure adherence to Devops best practices in the development, deployment and
release process
Manage external vendors as required.and act as the project management point of
contact for external vendors on 3rd party integration projects.
Help the VP of Engineering in setting high-level guidelines related to systems
architecture, agile process goals, team role definitions and production
readiness standards.
Perform other related duties as assigned that support the objective of the
position.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
A self-starter with a positive, collaborative and team-oriented attitude that
can flex to changing priorities and approaches.
Strong understanding of agile approaches and related tools including Scrum
SDLC best practices.
Strong understanding of cloud computing as it relates to scaling, security,
containerized approaches, logging, monitoring, alerting, and security.
Strong understanding of modern front-end solutions including mobile, web,
single page apps, and messaging domains.
Strong understanding of back-end solutions including REST APIs, message/queue
solutions, serverless architectures, event-driven models, relational database
designs, caching platforms, and cloud auto-scaling options.
Extensive experience with Python and Javascript (React) techstacks.
Good understanding of QA, CI/CD and DevOPS practices.
Experience hiring, ramping and managing remote engineers.
Demonstrated ability to build close partnerships Product Management,
Production Operations, and others outside the engineering team.
Demonstrated respect, support, and encouragement of diverse and inclusive
teams and decision making.
Demonstrated understanding of, sensitivity to, and respect for the diverse
academic, socio-economic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds,
disability, and sexual orientation of community college students, staff and
faculty.
Minimum Qualifications
At least 6 years of experience as the personnel manager for a team of software
engineers and the management of day-to-day engineering work.
Experience hiring engineers in all of these specialties: QA, DevOps, systems,
and software.
At least 4 years of experience leading agile software development as a Scrum
Master with good understanding of industry-leading agile tools. Scrum Master
certification is strongly preferred.
At least 2 years of experience implementing production solutions within a more
developed cloud ecosystem, including within one of these: AWS, Azure or GCP.
At least 5 years of proven experience with many of these: RESTful APIs, worker
queues, message buses, NoSQL data designs, containerized approaches (e.g.,
Kubernetes), API gateways, caching platforms, etc.
At least 5 years of strong technical leadership experience involving modern
programming languages, frameworks and their related platforms (Python,
JavaScript, Go, Java, etc.). For example, with Python this might include AWS
API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Django, Flask, Celery, FastAPI, etc.
Bachelor’s degree with a focus in computer science or related field, or an
additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
Desired Qualifications
Understand data privacy and security concerns with respect to higher education
student data.
Strategic thinker with strong analytical and quantitative skills.
Working Conditions and Travel
Calbright College is a statewide online college where all instruction and
support are done via various online technologies both in person and remotely.
Calbright College has administrative offices in Sacramento available for use.
When working remotely, employees should be able and willing to use digital
communication tools as used by the college, and have the ability to work on a
computer for extended periods of time.
Regular attendance is considered an essential job function; the inability to
meet attendance requirements may preclude the employee from retaining
employment.
The person holding this position is considered a mandated reporter under the
California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply
with the requirements set forth in Calbright College policies, procedures, and
Title IX.
Calbright College celebrates all forms of diversity and is deeply committed to
fostering an inclusive environment within which students, staff,
administrators, and faculty thrive. Individuals interested in advancing
Calbright College’s strategic diversity goals are strongly encouraged to
apply. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for qualified applicants
with disabilities who self-disclose.
Requires the ability to function in a remote online instructional environment
performing work of primarily a sedentary nature. Requires the ability to use
hearing and speech to make presentations to groups and carry-on conversations
over the phone and in-person. Requires speaking skills to communicate with
staff and students in one-on-one and small group settings, on the phone, and
to distinguish sound prompts from various types of equipment. Requires near
visual acuity to read printed materials and computer screens. Requires
sufficient hand/arm/finger dexterity to retrieve work materials, operate a
personal computer keyboard, and operate standard office equipment. Requires
the ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Work is performed indoors where minimal safety considerations exist.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Calbright College provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all
employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
national origin, age, veteran status, disability or genetics. In addition to
federal law requirements, Calbright College complies with applicable state and
local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
Who We Are
Calbright College is one of California’s newest community colleges – the first
statewide, online campus designed to bridge the gap between employers with
unfilled positions and students who don’t have either the time or money to
attend a traditional school. Our mission is to increase economic mobility and
close equity gaps for working adults who lack easy access to traditional forms
of higher education by offering online, flexible, affordable skills-based
programs that provide tangible economic value for both working adults and
hiring managers.
Calbright College focuses on Education, Community Colleges, and Online
Education . Their company has offices in California. They have a mid-size team
that's between 51-200 employees.
You can view their website at <https://www.calbright.org> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/gocalbright),
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/gocalbright/), and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/calbright-college).
