Manager, Software Engineering

What You’ll Do Here

• Lead, coach, and grow a high‑performing engineering team focused on quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Reimagine and optimize content creation workflows using modern platforms, automation, and generative AI.
• Engage in driving POM Discovery activities, including continuous customer engagement—both internal and external—to derive solutions that meet end‑user, company, and technology goals.
• Track quality and efficiency improvements through well‑instrumented SDLC tools and report progress to executive teams.
• Balance technical debt and other maintenance activities alongside new feature development within each sprint.
• Work with partners and customers to establish and handle product backlogs, estimates, and budgets.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and industry trends to inject continuous innovation into our product roadmaps.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and recent, relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of technology leadership experience, including developing technology strategies, fostering innovation, and leading globally distributed teams.

• Solid understanding of AI concepts, technologies, and methods, including machine learning, language, reasoning & multimodal models, prompt & context engineering, skill and agent frameworks, RAG, and vector databases.
• Hands‑on experience integrating or experimenting with commercial and open‑source GenAI technologies and toolkits (e.g., coding assistants, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Lang Chain).

• Experience in maintaining and/or modernizing legacy or monolithic architectures, migrating systems to modular, cloud‑native platforms, and implementing hybrid cloud strategies.
• Ability to design and develop APIs that integrate legacy systems with modern solutions.
• Comfortable designing and deploying cloud‑native solutions on AWS, GCP, or Azure, using containers, serverless, and cloud storage/compute services.

• Proven ability to build secure, resilient, scalable, high‑availability enterprise systems for global user bases.
• Strong experience with agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and tooling such as Jira or Azure Dev Ops.
• Proven success organizing teams and delivery around a Product Operating Model.

• Demonstrated skills in working with cross‑functional teams in distributed, remote‑first environments.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences, including executives.

Base pay range: $ – $ USD. The position includes eligibility for a discretionary incentive bonus program with a 15% annual target. Total compensation details are available in Cengage’s Total Rewards Philosophy.

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