Tech Consulting - Digital Engineering - Senior Manager - Seattle

EY is a global leader in assurance, consulting, tax, and transactions, committed to building a better working world. The Senior Manager in Digital Engineering will lead technology projects that align with organizational strategy, ensuring quality and timely delivery while managing both technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities:

• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Develops solutions to complex problems
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate work area and possibly the business function within own area/department
• Own the vision and strategy for products on behalf of our clients, define the product roadmap, and deliver clear requirements that designers and engineers will use to bring your vision to life
• Ensure clear product vision is defined
• Drive day-to-day execution and delivery with re-prioritization and adjustments being made along the way to respond to an evolving business landscape
• Incorporate agentic harnesses to automate routine decision-making, streamline requirement gathering, and facilitate real-time feedback integration, making the lifecycle more efficient and responsive
• Innovate and make business, technical and strategic decisions along with running day-to-day execution
• Work on deeply technical platform and artificial intelligence products and services
• Familiarity with agent centered Product Delivery Lifecycle approaches is highly valuable

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required (4-year degree)
• Typically, no less than 7 years relevant experience in digital product engineering roles
• Success in delivering products/services in a high-growth environment, with a demonstrated ability to identify and solve ambiguous customer-focused problems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to align with stakeholders on expectations
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to make recommendations and measure success
• Familiar with application development tools and the SDLC
• Skilled in technology business requirements definition
• Skilled in technology business requirements definition, analysis, and mapping
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Effective change management abilities
• Proven track record of leading teams
• Ability to build and manage relationships with key stakeholders including internal teams, clients, and vendors
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Develops solutions to complex problems
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate work area and possibly the business function within own area/department
• You will own the vision and strategy for products on behalf of our clients, define the product roadmap, and deliver clear requirements that designers and engineers will use to bring your vision to life
• You'll ensure clear product vision is defined
• You will drive day-to-day execution and delivery with re-prioritization and adjustments being made along the way to respond to an evolving business landscape
• By incorporating agentic harnesses, product managers can automate routine decision-making, streamline requirement gathering, and facilitate real-time feedback integration, making the lifecycle more efficient and responsive
• We are looking for a true product leader who can be counted on to innovate and make business, technical and strategic decisions along with running day-to-day execution
• You will be working on deeply technical platform and artificial intelligence products and services so a strong technical background (preferably as a developer) is a must
• Familiarity with agent centered Product Delivery Lifecycle approaches is highly valuable, as these tools empower product managers and their teams to leverage autonomous agents for rapid prototyping, testing, and deployment
• Significant customer-facing experience related to planning, requirements gathering, prioritizing, and scoping
• Experience delivering software platforms, products, and services targeted at highly technical audiences (i.e. software developers)
• Experience working in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team to deliver products/services
• Demonstrated skills in developing product roadmaps and functional requirements, launching new products/features, conducting customer research and/or facilitating user testing
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects on tight deadlines
• Experience coordinating complex product development cycles and software development schedules
• Strong attention to detail and end-to-end ownership
• Proficient in Agile delivery and development methodologies
• Experienced in application delivery processes and application development tools
• Strong understanding of quality assurance and testing practices
• Knowledgeable in system development lifecycle and technology integration
• Chargeability: Billable to external client
• Delivery: Leads engagement delivery
• Project Management: Accountable for program/project management
• External Client - Interaction Type: Manages client relationships
• External Client - Interaction Frequency: Daily
• External Client - Engagement Participation: Leads client engagements (planning, execution, closure)
• Sales: Responsible for identification of sales and new opportunities
• Pursuit: Collaboration and key contribution to RFPs and related activities
• Engagement Economics: Manages engagement economics for the whole engagement
• Resource Planning: Develops resource plan and budget for the whole engagement
• Master's degree preferred
• Passionate about delivering commercial software products and platforms to market
• Deeply technical and constantly in a state of learning
• Able to communicate clearly and efficiently with a variety of audiences including developers, clients, customers, partners and executives
• Fearless in getting 'hands-on' with technology and execution
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering processes
• Deep understanding and interest in AI, cloud, and distributed systems architecture
• Comfortable with ambiguity with a drive for clarity
• Professional certification relevant to the service line
• Strong emotional agility and hybrid collaboration skills
• A track record of driving outcomes and critical thinking