Senior Engineering Manager

The role

You will own an engineering team end to end, either in data engineering or product/web applications. You will set technical direction, manage people growth, and drive team delivery and business alignment.

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 health and delivery metrics
• Partner with Product, Design, GtM, or AI/ML teams to align with business goals

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including substantial time leading and growing engineering teams
• Technical depth in system design and identifying failure modes
• Track record of owning delivery including planning, estimation, and execution
• Direct experience with management including hard feedback and handling exits
• Strong communication skills for coaching and explaining technical work to non-technical audiences
• 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.