Senior Manager Software Engineering
Role Overview
Lead the Core Platform organization for Magna New Mobility's Unified Factory Platform, a cloud-native software ecosystem serving manufacturing applications across 120+ global plants.
The organization is responsible for foundational services, infrastructure, data architecture, APIs, and platform scalability.
This senior technical leadership role is accountable for platform architecture, engineering excellence, organizational development, and operational performance at enterprise scale.
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Role and platform
Lead the Core Platform organization for Magna New Mobility's Unified Factory Platform, a cloud-native software ecosystem serving manufacturing applications across 120+ global plants.
The organization is responsible for foundational services, infrastructure, data architecture, APIs, and platform scalability.
This senior technical leadership role is accountable for platform architecture, engineering excellence, organizational development, and operational performance at enterprise scale.
Technical vision and architecture
- Define and own the long-term technical strategy; ensure scalability, reliability, and security across global multi-plant deployments.
- Drive architecture decisions for distributed systems, IoT integration, event-driven services, and data pipelines.
- Set platform standards for APIs, observability, and infrastructure automation; partner with Product and Hardware teams to enable application development on shared services.
Leadership and operations
- Build and lead multiple engineering teams, hire and coach engineering leaders, and establish strong execution, design reviews, and performance management.
- Own uptime, performance SLAs, security posture, and deployment velocity; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Use measurable KPIs for reliability, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency, and promote data-driven decisions.
Strategy and collaboration
- Align the platform roadmap with business priorities alongside Product, Deployment, Customer Success, and executive leadership.
- Influence integration standards for AMR, forklift IoT, and PLC systems; ensure GDPR and global compliance requirements are met.
- Drive a multi-year roadmap, reduce application duplication through shared services, and design for external commercialization and SaaS scalability.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field; a master's degree is preferred.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience owning large-scale distributed systems or platform organizations and defining and executing multi-year technical strategy.
- Experience operating cloud-native systems; AWS is preferred.
- Strong experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, and DevOps best practices.
Additional relevant experience
- At least 2 years leading managers of engineers is preferred.
- Experience leading IoT-connected systems or industrial automation platforms; scaling SaaS products for global enterprise customers; or working with high-availability systems with real-time constraints.
- Strong understanding of data architecture and analytics platforms, and experience influencing executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Compensation
- Hiring base salary range is $145,000–$185,000; the offer depends on education, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.
- Some positions may also be eligible for an annual performance-based bonus.
About Magna New Mobility
Magna New Mobility develops mobility capabilities and products for urban markets, industrial intralogistics, commercial vehicles, and autonomous vehicles.
The group develops software solutions that integrate with next-generation hardware to create integrated mobility solutions.
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