An Engineering Manager manages a team of engineers. They oversee the day-to-day operations and growth of an engineering team such as hiring, training and development, performance reviews, etc. In this blog post we describe the primary responsibilities and the most in-demand hard and soft skills for Engineering Managers.

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Main Responsibilities of Engineering Manager

The following list describes the typical responsibilities of an Engineering Manager:

Achieve

Achieve financial and other KPIs established and site facilities manager.

Address

Address roadblocks faced by your team through advocacy and creative problem-solving.

Administer

Administer performance evaluations, plan training and career development of direct reports.

Advocate

• Advocate for and implement changes to make the product easier to support and troubleshoot.

• Advocate and advances modern software development and organizational practices.

Analyze

Analyze technology to identify and proactively pay down technical debt in key areas.

Apply

Apply client's quality requirements and performance standards to supplier's scope of work.

Assess

• Assess and develop infrastructure engineering talent.

• Assess client needs and job scope if required.

• Assess and coordinate hiring needs with Executive, Discipline Leads, Managers, and HR.

Assist in

• Assist FM / CE / TL in additional task or work assigned.

• Assist in identifying and assigning SDE personnel and external technical specialists to projects.

• Assist in recruiting top tier engineers to join OMG.

• Assist in the budgeting process including reviews with client as required.

• Assist in the development of business and marketing plans.

• Assist in the growth of employees through coaching, training and career development activities.

• Assist sourcing, MOQ and cost negotiation on new material.

• Assist with building a compelling UX vision for EMV and leading its vehicle implantation.

• Assist with project inceptions, eventually assuming the role of inception facilitator.

• Assist with recruiting and building an effective engineering team.

Attend

• Attend and manage any plant failures or E&M equipment failure.

• Attend global conference call to present the team.

• Attend meetings at site with the client and others as required.

• Attend weekly Management Meetings.

Build

• Build and analyze data models to drive design decisions based on data insight.

• Build and lead a highly skilled and motivated cloud engineering team.

• Build and manage the reliability program within applicable regulatory and corporate guidelines.

• Build and mentor individuals on the team to high standards of quality, pride and excellence.

• Build an organization that takes ownership and accuracy of data 24x7x365.

• Build, coach, and maintain a team of skilled and engaged full-stack software engineers.

• Build, develop, and manage the Radio Network team in their local market.

• Build effective relationships.

• Build performant, scalable and secure mobile applications.

• Build scalable solutions by providing the Technical and Functional direction to the Engineers.

• Build something that will make the lives of real people easier.

• Build talent by encouraging and supporting individual professional development plans.

• Build team expertise to fit mission need.

• Build world class Security, WebOps, and internal IT functions.

Champion

• Champion Agile methods and practices.

• Champion Quality and Continuous Improvement.

• Champion the security and availability of the platform.

Coach

Coach and mentor team members.

Code

Code coverage with unit tests should be as complete as possible.

Collaborate with

• Collaborate across departments with project managers, managers, team leads to manage resources.

• Collaborate with cross-functional peers and leaders to deliver projects.

• Collaborate with designers, testers and product owners to ensure the customer experience is perfect.

• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to continuously improve existing processes and products.

• Collaborate with product owners to match engineers to areas of responsibility.

• Collaborate with recruiting to scale the team.

• Collaborate with teams across Square to make technical, design, strategy and product decisions.

Collect

Collect and document user's requirements and develop logical and physical specifications.

Communicate

Communicate with senior management for team vision and development.

Complete

Complete activities required for design transfer and production.

Conduct

• Conduct periodic department meetings and coaches / mentors where needed.

• Conduct periodic formal and informal performance evaluations.

• Conduct pipeline recruiting efforts to find and hire top sales engineering talent within your region.

Confirm

Confirm product performance by designing and conducting tests.

Connect

Connect with senior management for team vision and development progress.

Consume

Consume and contribute content from and to Open Source communities.

Contribute

• Contribute generously to the leadership group.

• Contribute to achieving financial and other targets established by the Facilities Manager.

• Contribute to the technology roadmap for the entire charter.

Coordinate

• Coordinate complex engineering initiatives that span global cross-functional teams.

• Coordinate day-to-day activities and direct team members within a specific discipline.

• Coordinate new launch programs and chairs 'APQP' meetings with customer and internal team.

• Coordinate with Engineering stakeholders and Project Management teams on project challenges.

• Coordinate with project managers to successfully deliver projects to our clients.

• Coordinate with sales department in analyzing customer needs.

Create

• Create and coordinate project schedules and budgets.

• Create and implement process improvements to the software development lifecycle.

• Create and improve process flow charts and value stream maps.

• Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development.

• Create technical specifications, prototypes and presentations to communicate your ideas.

Debug

Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack.

Define

• Define and drive the roadmap and vision with and for the team.

• Define and evolve the next generation of Document Cloud components, tools & APIs.

• Define and implement a strategy for successful delivery of strategic Multi-cloud services.

• Define and manage SLAs for all data sets and processes running in production.

Deliver

Deliver design deliverables per project schedules and allocated budget.

Design

• Design and build custom test equipment and test software to interface with the company core products.

• Design wiring diagram with the emphasis of maintainability, usability and reliability in mind.

Determine

Determine project assignments within the team.

Develop

• Develop a culture which takes challenging and complex ideas and turns them into production solutions.

• Develop and evolve engineering processes and collaboration models to optimize team efficiency.

• Develop and executes effective succession plans.

• Develop and implement building alarm response procedures to address critical alarm conditions.

• Develop and maintain a schedule and budget for the assigned engineering project.

• Develop and maintain strong cross function relationships with.

• Develop and own QA strategy, track and manage a group of projects simultaneously.

• Develop a team culture of ownership, teamwork, and empathy that reinforces the core values of Client.

• Develop commissioning strategies, budgets and programmes.

• Develop, coordinate, and integrate IT infrastructure project plans.

• Develop models for user matching and conversion attributions.

• Develop Proof-Of-Concepts (POC) and prototypes.

• Develop standards and processes to improve functional performance and effectiveness of team.

• Develop standards and structure for workshops, trainings and projects.

• Develop systems and processes for high-quality product delivery.

• Develop technical implementation plan for Upgrades and Migration engagements.

• Develop training program and career path for property employees.

Direct

• Direct hands on knowledge of elevators and vertical roll-up and fire doors a significant plus.

• Direct, manage and develop a team that is recognized as technical leaders in Ingredion.

• Direct management of 20+ person teams including Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, and SDETs.

• Direct planning and execution of orbital relocation operations, as necessary.

Document

Document Search / Log Collection (e.g. ELK stack / ElasticSearch).

Drive

• Drive a culture of continuous improvement in development processes and tools.

• Drive and oversee results of remote teams who perform manual and automated test.

• Drive and support change initiatives for Material handling equipment and process improvement.

• Drive and Support DFMEA, DVPR, TDRs.

• Drive continuous improvement in process design, cost savings, quality and resource utilisation.

• Drive continuous improvement of engineering technical capabilities.

• Drive Innovation and invest in ideas and executions around emerging industry and technologies.

• Drive overall improvements to quality and performance of the system.

• Drive capability roadmap and defines operational excellence.

• Drive schedule execution and quality, software engineering practices.

• Drive technical initiatives to build clean, robust, maintainable, and performant web applications.

• Drive the design, building, and launching of new data models and data pipelines in production.

• Drive the recruiting and hiring process for your team.

Educate

Educate others (technical and non-technical) on areas of expertise.

Encourage

Encourage taking risks and learning from mistakes.

Engage with

• Engage with customers to identify problems, test ideas, and refine workflows.

• Engage with Development, Product Management, Customer Success, and other stakeholders.

Ensure

• Ensure all technology tools at the site are working fine.

• Ensure a property risk management program including audits is implemented and maintained.

• Ensure availability of appropriate verification and validation of design analysis tools.

• Ensure compliant deployment of engineering policy, local codes and standards.

• Ensure continuity of business execution i.e. operational support for relevant applications.

• Ensure continuous improvement in process, cost, quality and production.

• Ensure correct maintenance of all equipment in conjunction with the other user departments.

• Ensure cross-value stream coordination and collaboration.

• Ensure Danvers Shared Technology Center strategic objectives are met.

• Ensure delivery of high quality and scalable product.

• Ensure delivery of solutions to the highest quality.

• Ensure effective hand-over within your team making sure they are held accountable for what they do.

• Ensure employees report any work related injuries or illness and are promptly investigated.

• Ensure financial processes are followed at all times.

• Ensure high availability of critical business systems.

• Ensure high productivity of the team members.

• Ensure monthly meeting is held with builder and track the MOM by updating the status.

• Ensure project health and progress using project management tools such as JIRA.

• Ensure project phased gate deliverable requirements are supported by assigned staff.

• Ensure proper balance between presales, delivery and support activities.

• Ensure proper functioning of the following system in the facility.

• Ensure proper prioritization and execution of process projects and programs.

• Ensure steady momentum of high quality releases.

• Ensure that a high quality of housekeeping, of all technical / mechanical spaces, is maintained.

• Ensure that effective preventive maintenance schedules are followed.

• Ensure that formal project management & tracking disciplines are used on managed NPD projects.

• Ensure that the AMC & other external vendors comply to the agreed deliverables & UBS policies.

• Ensure that you are the focal point for the team.

• Ensure the closure of improvement actions identified in audit.

• Ensure the sustainability and robustness of the Calendar Platform.

• Ensure the team is following all the JPMC operations standards as outlined on the SharePoint site.

• Ensure the team is well trained on all facilities policies, procedures and systems.

• Ensure they have the required resources, tools, and proper training to get their work done.

• Ensure tight alignment between field sales and other organizations within Splunk.

• Ensure updates for future designs is added.

• Ensure vendors are well-managed, delivering services on time and within budget.

Establish

Establish and deliver engineering strategy for the growth of the facility.

Establish a relationship with business stakeholders.

Establish a team with a build it, operate it and secure it mindset.

Establish Engineering & Operational procedures and roll out to site staff.

Establish and actively manage performance expectations.

Establish new work standards to sustain improvement.

Establish project-based business networks to fulfill and create customer intimacy.

Estimate

Estimate the overall impact of change requests.

Evaluate

• Evaluate performance of the engineers and provide regular feedback.

• Evaluate scope, requirements, technical design and feasibility for upcoming work.

• Evaluate third-party products and specifications.

• Evaluate technical designs and engineering work.

Execute

• Execute productivity / GMP improvement projects.

• Execute Quality deliverables in support of project timelines.

Explore

Explore new technologies, learn new concepts and share ideas with others . &#.

Facilitate

• Facilitate collaboration across engineering teams.

• Facilitate deep technical discussions with end-users and partners.

• Facilitate root-cause analysis to address identified losses and departmental KPI scorecard gaps.

Follow

• Follow company standards and protocols.

• Follow the defined PDLC process and participate in improving the process.

• Follow the fun in every step of the journey.

Formulate

Formulate and proactively look for opportunities to improve the overall effectiveness of the teams.

Foster

• Foster an environment where communication, teamwork, and collaboration are rewarded.

• Foster healthy modern engineering culture.

• Foster Collaboration and Teamwork.

Fulfill

Fulfill business development objectives and manage key client accounts.

Get

Get a good understanding of applications, system and services tech stack, and AS-IS process.

Grow

• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with our company values.

• Grow and develop the individuals on your team.

Guide

• Guide and prioritize development across Golang and Java web services.

• Guide their job performance and career growth.

Handle

• Handle and prioritize customer escalations alongside new feature development.

• Handle a team of 6-10 full stack developers.

• Handle the consigned material, and special components sourcing and cost negotiation.

Help

• Help define feature sets according to market requirements.

• Help drive continuous improvement across both teams.

• Help improve their software testing methodology by adopting new tools and best practices.

• Help product teams start iterating at the speed of their ideas!.

• Help take us to the next level.Working with Teams.

• Help to develop an engineering culture where teams.

• Help translation of business requirements into technical needs and actions.

• Help with project design and planning.

Hire

Hire and develop staff to meet long term vision of business requirements.

Identify

• Identify and remove impediments and distractions.

• Identify and unblock issues impeding the team.

• Identify bright stars and advocate for them.

• Identify initiatives to bring in efficiencies.

• Identify opportunities to reach new market segments and expand market share.

• Identify spares requirement and manage the efficient control and usage of spare parts.

• Identify training needs in individuals and across the team.

• Identify user needs to create and administer the data lake.

Implement

• Implement, comply with and audit all internal management systems, for quality assurance.

• Implement preventive maintenance programs, policies and rules to ensure effective service.

• Implement the energy management programs to reduce the cost on utilities.

• Implement the rigorous use of product requirements and engineering specifications.

Improve

• Improve and develop efficient processes for your team.

• Improve engineering process to increase throughput, reduce manufacturing times and decreased rework.

• Improve processes and collaboration within the team and across groups.

Influence

• Influence product strategy partnering with the Product Management and Data Science teams.

• Influence the design and implementation of upcoming products and services with security in mind.

Inspire

Inspire team members to hit short and long term career growth targets.

Interact with

• Interact with customers on a regular basis to enhance customer experience.

• Interact with customers on engineering design and any questions / problems they may have.

• Interface with regulatory agencies, as needed / upon request by management.

Intervene

Intervene in the event of a fire emergency by executing the fire emergency procedure.

Introduce

Introduce and sustain development processes aimed at high quality and efficiency.

Keep

• Keep abreast of best practices and the latest technology in the transportation industry.

• Keep abreast of current trends in IT to ensure the most effective use of technologies and strategies.

• Keep and posts metrics that shows the team's performance.

• Keep up to date with the latest in simulations, perception, and robotics research.

Lead

• Lead a full stack team managing server, IOS and Android engineers.

• Lead a growing engineering team, and work closely with an accomplished and well respected CTO.

• Lead and provide technical direction for technology development, enhancements and fixes.

• Lead and support the engineering staff to create a high performing team.

• Lead effectively through outcomes instead of tasks.

• Lead initiatives to increase throughput, reduce cost and improve performance in constrained areas.

• Lead multi-functional projects within area of responsibility.

• Lead multi-functional projects within your area of responsibility.

• Lead planning sessions to deliver value to customers and business.

• Lead and motivate others, generating commitment and a shared sense of purpose.

• Lead and participate in retrospectives.

• Lead by example and with uncompromising ethics.

• Lead the activity of integrating LFIS products with other 3rd party products.

• Lead the Progression of DFIN's Technology Platform.

• Lead the team members and help build Statistical Language Models for various languages.

• Lead the team to make architectural and high level technical decisions.

Liaise with

Liaise with clients, project managers, and stakeholders as necessary.

Maintain

• Maintain Alignment of Projects with business unit's goals and overall strategic plan.

• Maintain and manage call down lists with alarm companies for after-hours support.

• Maintain an understanding of NCR product lines in order to assess impacts on the overall solution.

• Maintain a professional appearance and behaves in a mature manner with integrity at all times.

• Maintain a safe and professional work environment.

• Maintain history records for all the plant equipment.

• Maintain list of current vendors and available equipment for process design packages.

• Maintain QA practices in accordance with audit controls.

• Maintain Supply (forward load) information for the Software function.

• Maintain technical knowledge of product architecture and connective dependencies.

• Maintain the highest bar of quality possible for all releases.

Make

Make and test database schema changes when needed.

Manage

• Manage all regular / irregular service provider JSAs to ensure compliance with agreed process.

• Manage all Vendor Building Systems Technicians.

• Manage and administer servers, networks, and applications such as DNS, FTP, and Web.

• Manage and mentor other software engineers.

• Manage and participate in 24x365 on-call support schedules.

• Manage and prepare technical and cost proposals.

• Manage and resolve any conflict.

• Manage an engineering team.

• Manage a small team to help facilitate the product software development life cycle.

• Manage a team of 4 - 6 Engineers.

• Manage a team of senior profiler engineers to delivery on the company's next-generation profilers.

• Manage a team working on designing and developing world-class enterprise-level solutions.

• Manage capital budget, project scoping, approval, and implementation.

• Manage change management relating to the Specialty Engineering Team areas of responsibility.

• Manage comprehensive engineering and facilities management services.

• Manage each team member's performance, employing ongoing performance feedback and coaching.

• Manage from the front by directly engaging the client-facing activities.

• Manage headcount, budget, hiring, on-boarding.

• Manage hiring, onboarding and performance management processes for your team.

• Manage on-call responder rotation for owned tools and services managed within team.

• Manage project priorities, schedules, allocate time, and ensure timely launches of new functionality.

• Manage regular disaster recovery drills for database systems.

• Manage SRE team members across Experian offices in the US and India.

• Manage team and interact across teams to ensure best practices are followed.

• Manage team with respect to hiring, professional development, and meeting team objectives.

• Manage the critical spare parts program.

• Manage the Data Analytics Program and continue development of the central analytics repository.

• Manage the day-to-day activities for the IT technicians and engineers that report to the manager.

• Manage the Development and deployment cloud systems and cloud applications.

• Manage the Engineering Team.

• Manage the platform on-call rota.

Maximize

Maximize inventory availability to increase sales.

Measure

• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.

• Measure the impact of your team, define and influence product strategy.

Mentor

• Mentor and coach junior team members.

• Mentor and coach team members to develop their skills.

• Mentor and develop the simulator engineers using the training matrix.

• Mentor and guide a high performing team of engineers, hire and retain key talents.

• Mentor and promote career growth by providing learning and development opportunities.

• Mentor, manage, and grow a team of 10+ engineers working across the software development lifecycle.

Monitor

• Monitor and implement any governance and assurance policies applicable to the integration team.

• Monitor & manage the operational & statutory compliance of all fire & life.

• Monitor, participate, manage and report safety, security, technology and technical risk on projects.

• Monitor performance and recommend changes in programming, cost adjustments or resource additions.

• Monitor documentation maintenance throughout all phases of pre-market product development.

• Monitor & track deliverables while complying with quality standards & engineering practices.

Motivate

Motivate other team members, be responsible and organized.

Negotiate

Negotiate head count, project budget, and major deliverables.

Observe

• Observe / monitor new technologies, competitors, industry trends and report to management.Oversee

• Oversee and Contribute to IETF and company's intellectual properties (Patents, White papers).

• Oversee capital projects and improvements.

• Oversee production releases.

• Oversee the provision of construction services.

Own

• Own designs and ensure the team ships high quality, scalable, maintainable and well-tested code.

• Own end-to-end availability (SLO / SLA) , reliability, and performance of Skyline Platform.

• Own the team's application architecture, coding standards, and quality of service monitoring.

Participate in

• Participate and support verification & validation testing of firmware and systems.

• Participate in Agile planning and development of new features.

• Participate in architecture / design discussions for solutions to challenging problems.

• Participate in code reviews and guide technical discussions.

• Participate in complex block and / or chip planning and architecture studies.

• Participate in daily Scrum Meetings.

• Participate in engineering and general design review as required.

• Participate in front end planning reviews to ensure compliance with AES.

• Participate in local professional trade organizations and training programs in order to stay.

• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.

• Participate in quarterly meetings to identify potential developer leads.

• Participate in system design from a security lens.

• Participate in technical design reviews to ensure FPGA design integrity is achieved.

• Participate in the effort to move to a more service-oriented architecture.

• Participate in the technical committees to design and review AES.

Perform

Perform 24x7 on-call engineering manager support on a rotating basis.

Plan

• Plan & conduct annual audit for China IFM facilities and use CMO system to report the audit result.

• Plan, organize and set goals for the manufacturing engineering function to best utilize talent.

• Plan, track, and manage QA for multiple in-flight engineering projects.

Prepare

• Prepare and submit operational reports in compliance to established deadlines and protocol.

• Prepare delivery plans to bring products to market and execute accordingly.

• Prepare specifications, review packages, and construction packages.

Process

Process Approval (Heat Treatment, Welding, Calibration of specialty equipment).

Produce

• Produce technical reports as required by the Bid or Project Manager.

• Produce viable cost proposals in response to customer demands and marketing trends.

Promote

• Promote, and participate in health & safety initiatives and compliance.

• Promote and sell the different products that Freedom Leisure offer.

• Promote Innovation and Guide Change.

• Promote modern technical standards.

• Promote ownership, quality and responsibility in a collaborative environment.

• Promote safety culture within portfolio including client, subcontractors, suppliers and visitors.

• Promote code compliance by ensuring sites meeting criteria will participate in the JLL ESCP.

Provide

• Provide 24 / 7 emergency call support and site attendance as required.

• Provide and review detailed workflows for change management activities.

• Provide constructive feedback for individual engineer's performance improvement on a cadence.

• Provide detailed project plans and updates as required.

• Provide general project support by assisting the team with technical questions.

• Provide hands on repairs to systems.

• Provide leadership and training for mechanical engineers.

• Provide leadership in iteratively defining and refining development processes as the team grows.

• Provide leadership in quality, process and technical standards.

• Provide leadership, management and technical vision to a growing engineering team.

• Provide leadership on complex technical issues.

• Provide leadership, technical support, and effectively manages and develops direct reports.

• Provide mentoring and career development to team members.

• Provide mission critical system review services to local data center facility operations teams.

• Provide ongoing feedback and coaching to team members as appropriate.

• Provide other supervisory and oversight roles for the section as needed.

• Provide other supervisory oversight role for the section as needed.

• Provide progress status / reports to management and / or PM..

• Provide resources to optimize engineer's skills.

• Provide technical architectural and operational leadership for the solution engineering vertical.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.

• Provide technical leadership to teammates.

• Provide technical support to Facility and Engineering staff on building related issues or challenges.

• Provide tech specs and assign tasks to software engineers working within interdisciplinary teams.

• Provide tier 2-4 level support to IT Networking staff members and company associates.

• Provide training and support aimed at expanding the capabilities of the operations staff.

• Provide training on CI tools and techniques.

Push

Push the team to continuously improve its ways of working in order to maximize its efficiency.

Recommend

Recommend changes when necessary and assist in implementation of new processes.

Record

Record Quality key performance indicators on a monthly basis and issue reports as necessary.

Report

Report and escalate to management as needed.

Represent

Represent the value of technical investments and retiring debt to the product development process.

Resolve

Resolve problems using solutions that involve new techniques, technologies, or concepts.

Respond

Respond to questions and create tickets.

Review

• Review all technical artefacts from the Platform Integration Organisation (LH).

• Review and approve protocol and written reports.

• Review and improve standards, best practices and processes on a regular basis.

• Review or coordinates vendor activities to support development objectives.

• Review silicon characterization reports, and design verification reports.

Run

Run our stand-up meetings and ensure that everyone has the information they need to succeed.

Schedule

Schedule both internal and external work to minimize downtime.

Select

Select and manage relevant external resource for project commissioning phases.

Set

• Set goals and provide appropriate feedback.

• Set goals, measure performance, provide regular feedback to grow and develop employees.

• Set clear expectations to inspire and motivate the team.

• Set pertinent objectives for direct reports that support the overall strategy and direction.

• Set strategy for SFDC integration with other third-party and home-grown services.

• Set structure and fill roles for the Engineering group.

• Set team-level and engineering best practices around product development.

Show

Show technical leadership over a product by suggesting new features and identifying technical debt.

Stop

Stop any observed unsafe acts and obey facility safety rules and procedures.

Supervise

Supervise the works of site engineers and technicians where necessary.

Support

• Support and develop the team through mentorship and feedback to be a high-performance team.

• Support annual CEM month activities.

• Support development teams in capacity planning and work estimation.

• Support multiple teams and initiatives in building complex software solutions.

• Support new spacecraft development efforts.

• Support R& D transition into production.

• Support the development of the SRD.

• Support the drafting of proposals and reports for clients.

• Support the implementation of reviews to ensure review objectives are met.

• Support the LCMM & Engineering Manager in establishing the Engineering team.

• Support the personal growth and career development paths of team members.

• Support the Quality function as required.

• Support the team in prioritizing, planning, and managing upcoming work items.

• Support the technical development of staff in Norway and our wider teams across.

• Support to Design Changes in the form of cross Supportability Assessments for Modifications.

Track

• Track metrics to measure success and hold teams accountable for driving issues to resolution.

• Track record of effective vendor management to deliver results.

Train

• Train and mentor staff on use of the Jadu platform and the development of technical skills.

• Train new engineers and test technicians on company processes and improvements.

Translate

Translate industry recommended practices & trends within their discipline into strategy.

Understand

• Understand mechanisms for forming team capacity and improving team performance.

• Understand the engineering design and operational aspects of all facility's systems and equipment.

• Understand the product and uses cases to support MVP / POC initiatives from other departments.

• Understand the staffing needs of the team and ensure it is set up for success.

• Understand the value of coaching, not micro-managing.

Use

• Use a combination of manual and automated testing to ensure high quality releases.

• Use strong engineering decision-making to ensure a properly developed solution.

Utilize

• Utilize agile development methodology to successfully lead the team to meet milestones and timelines.

• Utilize labor data to cost justify capital expenditure and process change ROI.

Work with

• Work across functions with peers in other groups to ensure collaboration for shared goals.

• Work along with Product Owners to ensure technical compliance is up to date.

• Work at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) development.

• Work closely and communicate with team ambassadors and sponsoring executives.

• Work closely with other disciplines to produce complete station drawings and package.

• Work closely with product managers to make sure there is alignment between the two teams.

• Work closely with stakeholders on new products or features / improvements of existing products.

• Work collaboratively with peers across fields.

• Work effectively across functional teams.

• Work hands-on with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions.

• Work in coordination with Operations Supervisor to define and implement the annual maintenance plan.

• Work on large scale data systems, backend services, and product integration.

• Work on scaling various pieces of product and architecture to support the changing product roadmap.

• Work very closely with partner, remote Development teams.

• Work well with people and leads by example.

• Work with engineers to plan training and continuing education.

• Work with production team leaders to support fabrication and / or installation of systems.

• Work with program management to support various projects on NPD and NPI.

• Work with site supervisors and regional maintenance assets for improvement.

• Work with the product team to flesh out the future of the product.

• Work with the shop and installers throughout the design, fabrication and erection processes.

Write

Write code as needed, such as those involving issue resolution and low-effort high-impact items.

Most In-demand Hard Skills

The following list describes the most required technical skills of an Engineering Manager:

1. Java

2. AWS

3. Python

4. Software Development

5. Javascript

6. Project Management

7. React

8. Design

9. Docker

10. Kubernetes

11. Software Engineering

12. Management

13. SQL

14. Agile

15. C#

16. Azure

17. Kafka

18. Scala

19. Spark

20. Ruby

21. Engineering Management

22. Node.Js

23. People Management

24. Mysql

25. Scrum

26. Machine Learning

27. CSS

28. J2Ee

29. GO

30. C

31. C++

32. Jenkins

33. Linux

34. Mongodb

35. Redis

36. Electrical Engineering

37. Agile Methodologies

38. Security

39. Architecture

40. Agile Environment

Most In-demand Soft Skills

The following list describes the most required soft skills of an Engineering Manager:

1. Written and oral communication skills

2. Leadership

3. Interpersonal skills

4. Problem-solving attitude

5. Analytical ability

6. Organizational capacity

7. Collaborative

8. Attention to detail

9. Presentation

10. Mentoring

11. Team player

12. Self-motivated

13. Time-management

14. Multi-task

15. People management

16. Coaching

17. Teamwork

18. Organized

19. Self-starter

20. Creative

21. Flexible

22. Planning

23. Decision-making

24. Management

25. Detail-oriented

26. Highly motivated

27. Proactive

28. Sense of ownership

29. Adaptable to changes

30. Initiative