Senior Engineering Manager

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 130 data engineers based in Europe, Agile Lab helps organisations with their data-driven transformation.

Take a look at our handbook to discover our core values and processes.

Salary: 65K-80K and 12K bonus pack 

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.

Responsibilities:

• Challenges the team processes, looking for ways to improve
• Mentors junior engineers 
• Makes active efforts to stay up-to-date with technologies
• Support the technical design of complex systems
• Delivers complex systems, well-baked, and almost bug-free
• Proactively Identifies problems with requirements and project plan
• Research and propose new technologies
• Consistently influence technical and business roadmap of services/products/projects
• Communicate with self-awareness
• When is proposing something, at any level, is doing it in written form and providing the proper context
• Contributes to the career development of others
• Produces quality metrics on the SDLC process
• Ensures team software is monitorable and HA
• Produces quality metrics on customer satisfaction
• Able to lead recruiting efforts and determine headcount for their teams
• Partners effectively with product/customer to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product/project roadmap
• Care about the efficiency of the company, introducing new practices , processes and standards
• Sets clear expectations for team members; solicits, synthesizes and delivers feedback
• Communicates timeline, scope and technical concerns to the teams.
• Leads delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines
• 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 sales department.

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 Hadoop, Spark, and similar frameworks
• In-depth knowledge of programming languages including Java and Scala
• Expert in cloud-native technologies, IaC, and Docker tools
• Excellent project management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Proactivity
• Business and functional understanding
• 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, 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;

• Smart Working Plus 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;

• 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.