Senior Engineering Manager

Xplore Inc. is Canada’s fibre, 5G and satellite broadband company for rural living. Xplore is committed to the relentless pursuit of an improved broadband experience for all Canadians. Xplore is building a world-class fibre optic and 5G wireless network to enable innovative broadband services for better every day rural living, for today and future generations.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of software developers as we embark on a company-wide transformation. This is your chance to use cutting edge tools to build software applications of the future – driving a technical vision while leading teams to deliver on modern digital and operational capabilities across key Telecom domains such as Digital, Field, Ordering, and OSS.

• Lead multiple software developers across cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring consistent delivery of business value, predictable execution, and strong engineering discipline
• Drive AI adoption, modernization of applications, and integrations across Telecom domains (such as Digital, Field, Ordering, OSS), aligning delivery with platform and enterprise architecture direction
• Establish and evolve engineering practices for cloud-native delivery on Azure, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure-by-design, and operational readiness
• Practice servant leadership by supporting developers and technical leads through hiring, performance development, career paths, mentoring, and ensuring a culture of accountability, learning, and inclusion
• Collaborate with product owners, business leaders and partners on roadmap execution, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk/issue escalation across teams and vendors/partners
• Ensure solutions meet non‑functional requirements including performance, security, resiliency, scalability, data integrity, and compliance while adopting modern software development principles, frameworks and platforms

• 8+ years in software engineering roles with 3+ years leading teams (people leadership and delivery accountability) in a product‑centric or Agile delivery environment
• Proven experience delivering enterprise systems and integrations in complex, cross‑functional environments
• Strong technical background with modern application development, APIs/integration patterns, and cloud fundamentals (preferably Azure)
• Demonstrated experience building software that accounts for performance, observability and security
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery outcomes (quality, cycle time, reliability) using metrics, continuous improvement, and pragmatic engineering practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate between business outcomes and technical execution

• Working experience building and maintaining Microservices and Web API services using technologies like GraphQL, gRPC, REST, SOAP XML
• Working experience building and maintaining customer facing UIs using ReactJS, NextJS, VueJS, Angular, and/or other JS frameworks
• Demonstrated understanding of event driven architectures and messaging services using tools such as Azure Service Bus, AWS SNS/SQS, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and/or equivalent technologies
• Working experience with Azure, AWS and/or GCP using managed services
• Strong understanding of containerized application development and management using tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Open Shift
• Storage Technologies:
  Databricks, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongo DB, DynamoDB and/or other equivalent technologies
• Observability Platforms:
  Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, ELK
• CI/CD tooling:
  Azure Dev Ops pipelines, Git Hub actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• AI Tooling:
  Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and/or other equivalent technologies
• Strong understanding of Cloud Native principles and frameworks

• Experience working with Salesforce Marketing and Service Cloud
• Experience in Telecom OSS/BSS domains and customer lifecycle processes
• Familiarity with TM Forum
• Experience leading modernization initiatives (legacy decomposition, platform migration, integration modernization, domain/platform realignment).
• Exposure to SRE/production operations practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management, runbooks, post‑incident reviews, operational automation).
• Experience working with distributed teams and vendors/partners

As a condition of employment and in order to comply with industry related data security standards, this position is subject to the successful completion of a Criminal Background Check. Details will be supplied to applicants as they move through the selection process.

Xplore is committed to creating an accessible environment and will accommodate disabilities during the selection process. Please let your recruiter know during the selection process of any accommodation needs.