Senior Manager, Engineering Technical Lead

Senior Manager, Engineering Technical Lead

Location: Henrico, VA

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POSITION TITLE: Senior Manager, Engineering Technical Lead

STATUS: Exempt

COMPENSATION RANGE: $148,000 - $156,000 Annually with 10% bonus potential.

LOCATION: Based out of our beautiful West Creek Office, located at 12580 West Creek Pkwy, Richmond, VA 23238.

This is a senior individual contributor role with horizontal technical leadership across multiple delivery teams.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Engineering Technical Lead is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving technical cohesion, engineering standards, and cross-team execution quality across Farm Bureau Tech delivery teams, including software engineering, API development, data pipelines/orchestration, and automation/RPA.

This role works horizontally across teams to establish and reinforce engineering patterns that enable reusable integration, automation-first workflows, reliable delivery, and scalable platforms
. The Tech Lead partners closely with Architecture & Governance and Integration & Automation Engineering leadership to reduce fragmentation, strengthen interoperability, and raise engineering maturity without slowing delivery.

This position is designed as a “force multiplier”—enabling teams to ship faster with higher quality by aligning on shared practices, patterns, and guardrails.

Key Responsibilities

Horizontal Technical Leadership (Across Teams)

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across engineering teams (software engineering, APIs, pipelines/orchestration, RPA/automation), ensuring consistent engineering practices and reusable patterns.
• Identify cross-team technical risks, inconsistencies, and bottlenecks; drive resolution through shared standards, reference implementations, and coaching.
• Facilitate alignment across teams on “how we build” (patterns, quality bars, integration approaches) while respecting team ownership and delivery autonomy.
• Define and socialize common engineering standards for API design, integration patterns, workflow orchestration, automation quality, and pipeline reliability.
• Establish and maintain reference implementations (e.g., API patterns, workflow templates, pipeline scaffolds, automation playbooks) to accelerate delivery and reduce rework.
• Promote an automation-first mindset—reducing manual handling, improving accuracy, and strengthening end-to-end workflows
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture & Governance to ensure delivery designs align to enterprise standards and long‑term ecosystem direction. (Related context
• Act as an engineering liaison between architecture and delivery teams—translating architectural intent into practical patterns teams can adopt.

Reliability, Delivery Quality, and Operational Fitness

• Raise consistency in non‑functional engineering outcomes: performance, resiliency, error handling, monitoring readiness, and operational supportability.
• Guide teams toward predictable delivery by reducing “one‑off” implementations and strengthening shared components and integration approaches.

Coaching & Community of Practice

• Mentor senior engineers and tech leads across teams through design reviews, pair‑architecture, technical workshops, and shared decision making.
• Establish or strengthen communities of practice (e.g., API guild, pipeline/patterns working group, automation standards forum) to sustain alignment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple domains (application development, integration/APIs, automation/workflows, data pipelines, or platform engineering).
• Proven ability to influence across teams without formal authority, driving adoption of standards and shared patterns.
• Strong experience designing and delivering integration solutions using APIs and workflow orchestration approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to create reusable engineering assets (templates, libraries, reference implementations) that reduce delivery time and improve quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating in a SaaS‑heavy environment integrating…