Job Description

Senior Engineering Manager
Our client is searching for a Senior Engineering Manager to join their team. This strategic leadership role is responsible for guiding globally distributed engineering teams, ensuring the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing SaaS solutions. The ideal candidate will bring a balance of technical depth, people leadership, and operational excellence to foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Your success will be defined by your ability to:

• Lead and structure globally distributed engineering teams to achieve company objectives
• Provide direct management to Engineering Managers, Team Leads, and QA Leads; conduct regular 1:1s and skip-level meetings
• Oversee performance management, goal setting, career development planning, and annual compensation reviews
• Ensure the delivery of scalable, high-quality features aligned with product and business priorities
• Foster an inclusive, supportive team culture grounded in psychological safety and technical excellence
• Partner with Product leadership to ensure effective resource allocation and strategic execution
• Drive engineering roadmap planning and contribute to Program Increment (PI) goal achievement
• Define, monitor, and report on key engineering KPIs (e.g., DORA metrics, quality metrics, velocity, eNPS, budget adherence)
• Oversee recruitment strategies and lead hiring initiatives in collaboration with HR
• Manage engineering budgets and optimize SaaS infrastructure costs through efficient architecture and operations
• Champion engineering best practices and promote continuous improvement across the SDLC
• Lead innovation projects and cross-functional technical initiatives that drive business impact
• Ensure compliance with data security and privacy standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR)

Your strengths include:

• Proven experience managing product engineering teams in cloud-native SaaS environments
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations
• Expertise in performance management, coaching, and career development
• Strong leadership in remote-first and globally distributed team environments
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams including Product, HR, and Business Operations
• Deep understanding of Agile practices and modern SDLC
• Strong budget management and business acumen
• Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Deep experience with AWS core services (IAM, EC2, VPC, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of SaaS architecture, including multi-tenancy, scalability, and uptime strategies
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Containerization and orchestration expertise (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Serverless architecture and microservices development
• CI/CD pipelines and quality automation frameworks
• Observability and incident response practices (monitoring, logging, tracing with tools like CloudWatch, Splunk)
• Modern API design (REST, GraphQL, API Gateway patterns)
• Secure development practices, including IAM policies, authentication, and authorization
• Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA is a bonus)
• FinOps principles and experience optimizing cloud infrastructure cost
• Experience managing through rapid scale or post-product-market fit growth is an asset
• Background in data engineering, ML/AI infrastructure, or DevOps tooling is an asset
• Experience working with Salesforce, Outlook/Exchange, or CRM integration platforms is an asset
• Experience leading strategic engineering initiatives across multiple teams is an asset

If you are interested in this role and meet the above criteria, please click the "Apply" button to send your resume directly to Shannon Bondad, Becky Webber or Apollonia Pucci.
Recruitment Partners Inc. is an Alberta-based, Alberta-focused recruitment firm. We are dedicated to building long-term relationships while securing top talent for Alberta's best employers. At the heart of our efforts is a collaborative, consultative approach. We are proud of our team of consultants, who come with practical business experience, a strong network of professional contacts, and are focused on what is best for both clients and candidates. We will facilitate the best fit between client and candidate. This means reduced turnover, enhanced employee engagement, increased productivity, customer satisfaction, and more.
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