Engineering Manager

Metis Strategy, a management and strategy consulting firm, focused on the intersection of business and technology, continues to grow and is looking for highly motivated individuals to join our San Francisco Bay Area team. We are trusted advisors to Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, helping them meet their most critical business objectives through tailored engagements and deep professional relationships. We work across industries on topics related to business & digital strategy and navigating organizational change.

As a senior member of our team, the Engineering Manager leads the engineers who build and deliver our clients' data and AI systems. You're a hands-on technical leader, a people manager, and a key contributor to how Metis builds its engineering practice.

In this role, you will lead one or more engineering teams through client engagements, turning data and AI strategy into working systems: data platforms, pipelines, AI/ML applications, and the infrastructure that supports them. You'll manage the full delivery lifecycle, from technical design and architecture decisions through implementation, code review, testing, and production hand-off, while keeping delivery on scope, on quality, and on schedule.

You will hire, coach, and grow engineers, setting technical standards and building the feedback loops, career paths, and mentorship that help a small but growing engineering bench develop. You'll partner directly with client engineering and technology leaders as a peer, translating ambiguous business requirements into a clear technical plan, and communicating tradeoffs, risks, and progress to both technical and executive stakeholders.

You will make and stand behind architecture and technology choices for data platforms and AI/ML systems, including cloud-native data lakes and warehouses, pipeline orchestration, and MLOps tooling, balancing what's technically right against what a client's team can realistically operate after we leave. You'll build and enforce engineering practices — code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation — so what we deliver stays maintainable long after the engagement ends.

And you'll contribute to Metis's own engineering capability: reusable accelerators, internal tooling, technical playbooks, and the frameworks that let the firm deliver technology work repeatably and at higher quality.

In Addition To Core Engineering Leadership, Metis Strategy Offers Engineering Managers a Chance To Help Grow The Technical Footprint Of a Thriving Consulting Firm. For Example, You Might

• Firm building:
  Bring entrepreneurial thinking to how a growing technology consulting firm builds and scales its engineering practice
• Frameworks & IP:
  Help develop reusable architecture patterns, playbooks, and internal engineering tooling
• Publishing:
  Turn engagement-based technical work into publishable technical write-ups and case studies
• Internal platforms:
  Take ownership of internal engineering tools and platform capabilities that other consultants and clients rely on

• Experience:
  
  7–10+ years of relevant software or data engineering experience, including at least 2–3 years directly managing engineers; consulting, professional services, or other client-facing technical delivery experience is a plus
• Education:
  
  Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• People Management: A proven track record of hiring, developing, and managing engineering teams through complex, fast-paced projects with tight timelines and multiple stakeholders
• Location:
  
  Located within the Pacific time zone. Day-to-day, we work fully remotely, but some clients require travel…