Senior Engineering Manager

The role

You will own one engineering team end to end, either the data engineering team or the product/web application team. You will set technical direction, manage people growth, and oversee team operations and delivery. You will also partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with mission goals.

What you will do

• Set technical direction and guide the team through design tradeoffs and architecture decisions
• Own engineering standards and the quality bar for the team
• Mentor, review, and build a culture of quality
• Take a tactical role to unblock the team or land business-critical outcomes
• Develop engineers through growth plans and direct feedback
• Hire and expand the team
• Manage up to leadership and peers
• Run team rituals and improve estimation and predictability
• Manage meaningful health and delivery metrics
• Partner with Product, Design, GtM, analysts, AI/ML, and data consumers

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including substantial time leading and growing engineering teams
• Technical depth to reason through system design and spot failure modes
• Track record of owning delivery for a team including planning, estimation, and execution
• Direct experience with management including hard feedback and handling exits
• Strong communication in every direction
• Comfortable with high autonomy and accountability in a fast-moving, early-stage environment

Nice to have

• Experience building complex data or AI systems
• Background in government, defense tech, or another regulated environment
• An active TS/SCI clearance, or eligibility to obtain one
• Experience owning platform-level infrastructure

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Work from home when you need to
• Sizeable equity
• Flexible vacation time
• Full health, dental, and vision insurance

About the company

Obviant has built the data source of truth and the AI tooling for defense acquisition. They fuse thousands of structured and unstructured sources into a coherent picture of budget, programs, and organizations.