Engineering Manager

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services focused on environmental, health, safety, and sustainability. The Software Engineering Manager will lead distributed engineering teams, ensuring high-quality software delivery while fostering collaboration and technical excellence across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor offshore development teams, ensuring alignment with engineering standards and company goals
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and communication practices across distributed teams
• Facilitate daily/weekly syncs, sprint ceremonies, and asynchronous workflows
• Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of software projects across multiple teams and vendors
• Ensure sprint commitments, release timelines, and quality targets are consistently met
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and delivery of features, ensuring high standards of code quality, security, and scalability
• Provide architectural guidance for .NET-based applications, web services, and database solutions running on Microsoft Azure
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and documentation standards
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and frameworks that improve developer productivity and system reliability
• Manage relationships with offshore development partners and outsourcing vendors
• Ensure vendor staffing stability and skill alignment
• Conduct regular performance reviews and contract evaluations
• Own operational readiness for your teams’ services: define SLAs, monitor production health, and coordinate incident response
• Partner with DevOps engineers to maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, ensuring seamless build, test, and deployment workflows
• Manage on-call rotations and escalation procedures; lead root cause analysis and drive corrective actions for production incidents
• Serve as engineering point of contact and primary liaison between onshore stakeholders and offshore teams
• Promote strong cross‑team collaboration across time zones
• Facilitate effective Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, retrospectives) and continuously refine team processes
• Collaborate with QA, UX, product management, and customer support teams to ensure seamless end-to-end delivery and customer satisfaction
• Improve development processes to optimize distributed team productivity
• Drive automation, testing, and quality‑first engineering culture
• Monitor delivery metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect rates) and implement improvements
• Ensure documentation is complete, accessible, and up to date

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering leadership or management, with a strong track record of driving technical innovation and organizational growth
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Proven success managing offshore or outsourced development team
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously
• Strong proficiency in .NET development (C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API) and relational database technologies (Microsoft SQL Server) and Microsoft Azure cloud services (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, or similar)
• Excellent communication and cross‑cultural collaboration skills
• Experience with multi‑vendor environments
• Background in scaling distributed engineering organizations
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and cloud platforms