Systems Engineering Manager
Role Overview
Lead Systems Engineers, build team capability, and shape technical strategy and roadmaps.
Create an environment where engineers can make technical decisions and consistently deliver quality outcomes.
Partner with stakeholders and product teams to align technical delivery with business needs.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the role
Lead Systems Engineers, build team capability, and shape technical strategy and roadmaps.
Create an environment where engineers can make technical decisions and consistently deliver quality outcomes.
Partner with stakeholders and product teams to align technical delivery with business needs.
Leadership and team development
- Hire, develop, retain, coach, and mentor Systems Engineers through tailored plans and regular one-to-one meetings.
- Build high-performing teams and provide career growth, challenge, motivation, and course correction.
- Establish processes, practices, and standards that support high-quality systems delivery.
Technical delivery
- Evaluate and recommend products that meet business needs.
- Drive continuous improvement using data to improve practices and delivery.
- Identify risks, propose mitigations, and escalate issues when appropriate.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to deliver the right outcomes.
Strategy and architecture
- Formulate technical strategy and roadmaps for the area.
- Drive architecture, design, implementation, adoption, and reuse of technology.
- Promote innovation and technical excellence across teams and the wider technology community.
Technical requirements
- Enterprise test automation framework design, governance, and scalable architecture patterns.
- API-first testing, shift-left and shift-right practices, and CI/CD-driven quality engineering.
- Test observability, reporting architecture, integration testing, and multi-tenant SaaS testing.
- Advanced Playwright development, API testing, reporting customization, and CI/CD integration.
- MCP architecture, AI-assisted test generation, AI-powered maintenance, RAG, prompt engineering, and AI agent workflows.
You will need
- Experience in software engineering, quality engineering, and test automation.
- Experience leading quality engineering or test automation teams.
- Experience building and scaling enterprise-wide test automation frameworks.
- Hands-on enterprise experience with Playwright.
- Strong programming experience in TypeScript, Python, Java, or JavaScript.
- Experience implementing API, UI, integration, and end-to-end automation solutions.
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