Engineering Manager

• Own end-to-end delivery of software developed by the POD, ensuring timely releases that meet agreed-upon business requirements and quality standards.
• Partner with business owners to define priorities, clarify requirements, and align deliverables with strategic objectives.
• Monitor progress against commitments, proactively addressing risks, dependencies, and resources constraints.
• Ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable leveraging best practices / patterns / standards of design and architecture.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire the POD team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement (through experimentation and learning).
• Manage staffing; including recruitment, performance management, and professional development for direct and dotted-line resources.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated testing to maintain high-quality releases.
• Provide technical coaching and professional development opportunities for team members to enhance their skills, knowledge, and career growth.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the POD and business stakeholders when there are escalations from the product owner (or team).
• Proactively collaborate with other development managers to resolve cross-team dependencies and maintain alignment with enterprise technology strategy.

Manager, Software Development

• Fostering a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and team members feel empowered to lead
• Guiding team members with structured development techniques
• Coaching engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
• Owning technical decisions and working closely with team to find best solutions to hard problems
• Leading conversations about long term technical strategy of the Wikimedia Enterprise team, with understanding of the principles of the movement.
• Being a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities including code reviews, ceremonies, and work allocation.
• Participating in hiring considerate of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Partnering with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
• Facilitating product technical strategy and roadmap setting with software engineers and technical product management
• Supervising budget and staffing

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