Versana

Senior Engineering Manager

Versana

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Charlotte • North Carolina • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and individual contributors across multiple teams.
  • Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Drive career growth frameworks, performance management, and succession planning.
  • Foster an inclusive, high-trust environment that supports well-being and sustained productivity.
  • Provide strategic technical direction in partnership with architecture and product leadership.
  • Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and high-quality systems aligned with long-term business goals.
  • Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, observability, automation, and DevOps maturity.
  • Lead efforts to modernize technology, simplify architecture, and reduce technical debt.
  • Establish and monitor KPIs for engineering performance, quality, and reliability.
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization.
  • Optimize team structures, resource allocations, and processes for scale.
  • Oversee vendor or contract engineering relationships when relevant.
  • Act as a senior partner to Product, Design, Data, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
  • Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly to executive leadership.
  • Ensure engineering alignment with organizational goals and compliance requirements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience with 3–5 years leading managers or senior technical leads.
  • Proven track record scaling engineering teams and delivering complex, high-impact software systems.
  • Strong technical foundation in software architecture, cloud technologies, and modern development practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with strategic leadership.
  • Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Experience in a matrix organization with both direct and dotted-line structures.
  • Background working in Agile environments—Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models.
  • Familiarity with platform engineering, developer experience tooling, or productivity enablement.
Benefits
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Commitment to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationorganizational skillsstakeholder managementcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementstrategic directioninclusive environment