Acuity

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Acuity
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeCork • IrelandSeniorWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams, driving cloud platform capabilities, and managing complex technical initiatives. Proficient in fostering team development, operational readiness, and implementing infrastructure automation practices.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Engineering LeadershipDatabricks ExpertiseAzure Data Lake ProficiencyDevOps PracticesInfrastructure Automation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AzureCloudERPUnity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers
  • Conduct one-to-ones, provide feedback, support career development, and create individual growth plans
  • Build an inclusive, accountable team culture
  • Own workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, role clarity, succession planning, and capability development
  • Set engineering direction for Databricks and Azure Data Lake platform capabilities
  • Establish supported engineering patterns for workspace configuration, compute, Unity Catalog, storage integration, environment management, and lakehouse workloads
  • Resolve complex engineering and operational issues
  • Drive engineering practices across architecture, code quality, testing, documentation, security, maintainability, and technical debt management
  • Own delivery outcomes, including planning, prioritization, execution, dependency management, risk management, and status reporting
  • Partner with product, program, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate priorities into engineering plans
  • Communicate technical trade-offs, delivery options, risks, and recommendations
  • Ensure secure identity, secrets, networking, role-based access, and platform governance patterns
  • Drive infrastructure-as-code, repeatable environment configuration, and platform provisioning automation
  • Ensure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, quality gates, release controls, and secure software supply chain practices
  • Own operational readiness and supportability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, runbooks, capacity, recovery, and incident response
  • Lead incident and problem management and ensure corrective actions are completed
  • Drive performance tuning, cost optimization, upgrade planning, resilience, disaster recovery, and continuous operational improvement
  • Establish service ownership and support expectations across engineering and stakeholder teams

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud platform engineering, data platform engineering, DevOps, or related roles
  • Experience leading and developing engineers
  • Demonstrated people management experience, including coaching, performance management, career development, hiring, and building high-performing teams
  • Experience leading delivery across complex technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and operational considerations
  • Hands-on technical background with Databricks, Azure Data Lake, cloud platforms, data engineering, DevOps, or comparable enterprise technology environments
  • Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, testing, observability, reliability, security, and cost management
  • Ability to make pragmatic decisions, manage competing priorities, and communicate technical and delivery trade-offs clearly
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Preferred: experience managing platform, data, cloud, DevOps, or site reliability engineering teams in an enterprise environment
  • Preferred: Databricks, Microsoft Azure, engineering leadership, or DevOps certification
  • Preferred: experience supporting supply chain, manufacturing, ERP, or operational analytics platforms
  • Preferred: experience with infrastructure-as-code, private networking, enterprise identity, policy automation, disaster recovery, and cost governance
  • Preferred: experience leading teams through growth, organizational change, platform modernization, or operating-model improvement

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodation in the application process for persons with disabilities
  • ADA-compliant accommodation support

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringCloud Platform EngineeringData Platform EngineeringGitCI/CDInfrastructure AutomationTestingObservabilitySecurityCost Management
Soft Skills
CoachingPerformance ManagementCommunicationDecision-MakingTeam Development
Tools & Technologies
Azure DevOpsUnity CatalogLakehouse WorkloadsIncident Response ToolsMonitoring Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
DevOps CertificationEngineering Leadership Certification
Industry Keywords
Supply ChainManufacturingERPOperational AnalyticsPlatform Modernization