Senior Engineering Manager

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At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. Adobe is listed as Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 20 consecutive years. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow. If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer. Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give global brands everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We’re passionate about redefining how companies interact with customers across every screen. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new insights can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours. The Opportunity Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) enables businesses to deliver the right experience at the right time to their customers. The Segmentation Service is one of the key AEP services, providing the ability to define customer segments and generate target. Audiences based on real-time customer profiles. Customer segment definitions are sophisticated queries over profile and event data capturing specific attributes or behaviors shared by a subset of users. With the need to perform trillions of audience segment evaluations per day, scalability and efficiency are paramount in segment evaluation. This is a great opportunity for engineers to solve very exciting challenges of scale and build core services that are used by all Adobe Digital Experience solutions. As part of building these services, you will work with an exceptionally talented and collaborative team, address sophisticated query evaluation challenges, design & implement innovative algorithms and build highly performant services.
What you'll do Mentor and guide high performing engineering team. Be an inspiring leader in building innovative tech in Adobe Experience Platform. Deliver high-performance and scalable systems that are adaptable to sophisticated business needs, influence ideation & outstanding problem solving. Partner with global product management and engineering and operations leaders to help shape technical product architecture & practices, roadmap and release plans. Drive strategic and tactical decisions which ensures the successful delivery of projects. Lead the technical design, vision, and implementation strategy. Create execution plan and lead the engineering team to complete the vision. Apply best-practices and coding patterns that ensure solutions are maintainable, modular, and of high code quality. Develop and evolve engineering processes and collaboration models, applying creative problem solving to optimize team efficiency. Attract, hire, on-board and retain top talent. Empower and develop the team as a player-coach to be a high-performance team. Craft a positive winning culture built on teamwork and shared accomplishments. Lead the discussions on emerging industry technologies & trends and work with the team & leadership use this knowledge to influence product direction.
What you need to succeed Passion and love of what you do!
13+ years of experience in software development with at least 4 years of experience in management role.
Strong technical skills with experience in designing & developing enterprise applications
Strong solid understanding of software development methodologies and software design patterns and have experience leading significant software projects/products
Proven experience running or leading sophisticated projects through full product delivery cycles
Consistent record developing, leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers and engineering managers towards delivering timely, high-quality software as a team.
Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
Consistent track record in recruiting and building robust teams
Expertise in design/development in distributed computing and related technologies
Strong Java/Scala, design, coding and architectural skills along with problem solving and analytical abilities
Good knowledge of Kafka, MySQL/Postgres, Solr, Elastic Search, Snowflake
Experience in developing and leading teams building solution with cloud technologies (AWS and/or Azure)
Self-motivated with a desire to mentor a team and the ability to drive the team to accomplish high-quality work
Excellent speaking, writing, and presentation skills, as well as the ability to persuade, encourage, and empower others
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

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