Senior Manager - Engineering Excellence

About the role

Manhattan Associates is seeking a Senior Manager to drive engineering excellence across the full software development lifecycle. The role works horizontally with engineering, product, architecture, DevOps, security and delivery teams to improve planning, building, integration, testing, release and operations.

Key responsibilities

• Establish baseline engineering flow using DORA metrics and lead targeted interventions to remove bottlenecks.
• Design and improve end‑to‑end SDLC workflows, define ownership models, quality gates and escalation paths.
• Increase visibility into capacity, technical debt and delivery health to enable informed trade‑offs.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps and Security to strengthen CI/CD, automation, observability and secure software delivery.
• Provide strategic direction for Quality Engineering, test automation and AI‑assisted engineering, and embed quality practices throughout development.

Required profile

• 14+ years of software engineering, DevOps, platform or quality engineering experience.
• Proven track record improving engineering outcomes across multiple teams and delivering measurable speed, quality and predictability gains.
• Strong analytical, communication and change‑leadership skills with ability to influence without direct authority.

Required skills

• CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
• DevOps / DevSecOps practices.
• Quality Engineering and Test Automation.
• AI‑enabled engineering tools and metrics.