Senior Engineering Manager (Remote) Engineering · Milano ·

Agile Lab is a company founded in 2014 with the mission to create value for its customers in data-intensive environments through customisable solutions that establish performance-driven processes, sustainable architectures and automated platforms based on data governance best practices.

Having delivered over 100 successful Elite Data Engineering initiatives, we have used this experience to create Witboost: a modular, technology-agnostic platform that enables modern organisations to discover, value and produce their data in both traditional environments and fully compliant Data Mesh architectures.

With a highly skilled team of over 160 data engineers based in Europe, Agile Lab helps organisations with their data-driven transformation.

The opportunity:

We are looking to recruit an Engineering Manager to join our team. In this role you will be required to plan and schedule demand, capacity, utilization, and priorities across multiple teams. To be successful as a Engineering Manager, you should have excellent leadership skills.

Note: Previous experience as a Data Engineer is mandatory for this role.

RAL:

€77-92K

Responsibilities and capabilities:

Teams Management:

• Mentors multiple teams;
• Master leadership and communication skills;
• Sets clear expectations for team members; solicits, synthesizes and delivers feedback;
• Define, write and communicate processes for its teams;
• Contributes to the career development of others;
• Create new leaders, creating long-term plans for its teams;
• Able to lead recruiting efforts and determine headcount for their teams;
• Care about the efficiency of the company, introducing new practices, processes and standards;
• Communicates timeline, scope and technical concerns to the teams;
• Comfortable managing team members with different skill sets and technical areas of focus. Always solving conflicts.

Technical and delivery skills:

• Makes active efforts to stay up-to-date with technologies;
• Support the technical design of complex systems;
• Delivers complex systems;
• Proactively identifies problems with requirements and project plan;
• Research and propose new technologies;
• Consistently influence technical and business roadmap of services/products/projects;
• Ensures team software is high quality;
• Produces quality metrics on the SDLC process;
• Make difficult decisions in a timely and effective manner;
• Partners effectively with product/customer to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product/project roadmap;
• Able to significantly impact pre-sales activities across several topics;
• Leads delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines.

Stakeholder management:

• When proposing something, at any level, do it in written form and provide the proper context;
• Produces quality metrics on stakeholder satisfaction;
• Proactively detect stakeholder dissatisfaction with effective comprehension of the situation and steering actions;
• Proactively report relevant outputs and outcomes to the stakeholders, in written form and with proper context;
• Able to identify areas of strategic technical debt and provide cost/benefit analysis for eliminating this debt and suggested timelines for how to prioritize it;
• Able to identify potential up-sell opportunities on existing customers and to communicate with the sales department;
• Able to build trustworthy relationships with stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science;
• 10+ years of experience and at least some past experience in the specific role;
• In-depth knowledge of Data Management practices;
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle;
• Excellent project management skills;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Proactivity;
• Business and functional understanding and interest;
• Team Player;
• Leadership capabilities.

We offer:

• Full remote or hybrid working in our offices: Milan, Turin, Padua, Bologna, Catania and Rende;
  
• Real work-life balance;
• Training monthly budget (time and money);
• A structured career path with clear expectations and salary for each level;
• Support of a buddy in the first week of work;
• A coach as a guide in choosing the most suitable experiences for your ambitions;
• Benefits and corporate welfare programs: company prizes and welcome pack with all the equipment you need to work;
• Agile Nomads Experience: opportunity to work for 2 weeks abroad;
• Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you;
• The opportunity to attend one conference per year;
• A company rated 4.8 out of 5 for employee satisfaction on Glassdoor and certified as a Great Place to Work
  
• Inclusive environment where you can be who you really are;
• Stimulating environment oriented to growth, both professional and personal.

How we work:

• We don't like hierarchies: we work as a team;
• We don't like bureaucracies, we prefer sense of responsibility;
• We like data, certainly, so anything that is measurable;
• We want to make a positive change in our industry;
• Empathy, humility, collaboration, and willingness to challenge ourselves are the basis of our work.

This position is open to all candidates, regardless of gender, and we strongly encourage applications from both male and female applicants in accordance with art. 27 of Legislative Decree n. 198/2006, as well as from those who identify as non-binary or any other gender. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.