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If you’re looking to advance your career in data analytics, expertise, and technology for the rapidly growing global CRE market, there’s no better place than Altus Group. At Altus, our work is purposeful. Every day, our employees drive impact, innovate, and shape the global commercial real estate (CRE) and PropTech industry.

Our people-centric culture empowers you to deliver in a high trust, high performance culture, surrounded by an inclusive team that’s collaborating to modernize our industry. We invest in our people with training and growth opportunities designed to propel you further in your career while providing a flexible and progressive workplace that reflects our values and teams.

The Engineering Manager III – Technology plays a critical role in shaping the future of technology teams and projects. This position is responsible for leading a regional team of developers, data engineers, automation engineers, and quality assurance professionals, driving high performance and innovation. The role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and strategic vision to effectively manage engineering operations.

As a key leader, the Engineering Manager is responsible for talent development, engineering excellence, and fostering a culture of best practices within the engineering community. They provide guidance and mentorship to engineers, ensuring adherence to high technical standards and industry best practices. The Engineering Manager is instrumental in project planning and execution, ensuring engineering resources are optimized and aligned with the company’s broader objectives. Additionally, they oversee recruitment and resource management, maintaining a well-rounded team with diverse skill sets, a structured job inventory, and a robust competency framework.

Key Responsibilities:

Talent Management and Development

• Assess and manage the engineering talent pool, ensuring excellence in engineering skills and knowledge.

• Mentor and coach engineers to align their career development with both team and organizational goals.

• Conduct regular performance evaluations, providing feedback and guidance for continuous improvement.

Engineering Excellence and Standards

• Champion engineering excellence by upholding and promoting high standards in all projects and processes.

• Ensure adherence to best practices, contributing to the development and refinement of engineering standards and methodologies.

• Ensure adherence to lean requirements process to support a high-performance delivery culture focused on high velocity, engineering integrity and quality.

Productivity Metrics

• Track productivity metrics to promote efficiency, innovation, and high performing team culture.

• Provide for team and individual analysis to measure velocity using consistent work unit definition and development opportunities.

• Track quality metrics in terms of refactoring frequency, escaped bug rates and resolution time.

• Provide transparency utilizing real time reporting and dashboarding.

Community of Practice Leadership

• Actively participate in the engineering Community of Practice (CoP) to foster knowledge sharing and collaboration.

• Work with other Engineering Managers to organize and contribute to CoP activities, taking on responsibilities of CoP tasks as needed.

Strategic Leadership

• Provide support to Technical Leads and engineers in achieving project delivery goals and maintaining quality standards.

• Engage in strategic planning and execution of projects, ensuring alignment with broader company objectives and vision.

Recruitment and Resource Management

• Oversee the recruitment process for engineering roles, focusing on attracting top talent and ensuring a good fit with team culture.

• Manage resource allocation across teams, ensuring efficient use of personnel in line with project demands and priorities.

Skillset Inventory

• Maintain a detailed inventory of current team skills, identifying strengths and areas for development.

• Regularly review and update the skillset inventory to align with evolving project needs and technological advancements.

Job Inventory

• Keep a comprehensive inventory of engineering job roles, ensuring clarity in responsibilities and expectations.

• Regularly update the job inventory to reflect changes in team structure and project requirements.

Competency Framework

• Maintain and communicate a competency framework that identifies key skills and behaviors for engineering roles.

• Use the framework to guide professional development and performance evaluations within the engineering team.

Risk Management

• Support project teams in the identification and mitigation operational risks in engineering projects, fostering a proactive risk-aware culture within the team.

• Integrate risk management strategies across projects, ensuring consistent practices and knowledge sharing.

• Regularly review and update risk management processes, adapting to new challenges and technological advancements for continuous improvement.

Team Compositions

• Monitor Supporting Staff (UX, BA, QA, DevOps) ratios to ensure optimal delivery balance.

Engineering Excellence and Standards

• Accountable for ensuring and defining the engineering process standards and best practices are in place, followed and in alignment with other R&D and corporate functions.

Productivity Metrics

• Accountable, as part of the engineering process standards, to define core engineering objectives and metrics that are in alignment with other R&D and corporate functions.

Community of Practice Leadership

• Lead the Engineering Community of Practice with accountability for core CoP objectives including engineering standards and productivity metrics.

Competency Framework

• Accountable, in collaboration with other R&D functions, for defining the competency framework and rubric that defines all skills, behaviors, responsibilities, and qualifications for all Engineer roles.

​Key Qualifications:

• 15+ years of applicable engineering manager experience

• Experience leading a technology organization with an understanding of current technologies and methodologies.

• Ability to lead and manage a team of diverse technical professionals with multiple disciplines of a technology organization.

• Strong capability in understanding talent needs, placement and development matching right roles and talent ensuring short term execution and longer-term objectives.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively collaborate with individual contributors, leaders, and stakeholders.

• Experience in talent management, including coaching, mentoring, performance management and recruitment with emphasis on building high performing teams.

• Extensive technical experience and knowledge with defining engineering process standards and metrics for an engineering team with the objective for high velocity, high quality, lean requirements, rapid prototyping, and continuous deployment.

• Experience leading change and technical knowledge required to lead engineering team through transition of talent and process.

• Experience, knowledge and demonstrated though leadership with engineering principles including DORA metrics and other engineering KPIs related to efficiency, quality, predictability and velocity.

What Altus Group offers:

• Rewarding performance: We are pleased to be able to provide employees competitive compensation, incentive and bonus plans, and a total rewards package that prioritizes their mental, physical and overall financial health.
• Growth and development: As a destination for top industry talent, we’re investing in you to meet the evolving needs of our clients and deliver on your professional goals. Our Altus Intelligence Academy offers over 150,000 hours of learning materials catering to diverse stages of an employee’s career journey.
• Flexible work model: We’re modernizing our employee programs to reflect the new world of work. Our Activity-Based Work model provides you with flexibility to align your work location to the work being performed - office for connecting and collaborating, and remote for focused work.

Altus Group is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment where all clients and employees feel welcomed, accepted and valued. We provide an atmosphere free from barriers to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and encourage equal opportunities for all employees. We’re seeking candidates with diverse experiences and provide accessible candidate experiences throughout the selection process. If you need accommodation, please contact us at [email protected] or +1 888 692 7487.

We appreciate all applicants who take the time to apply to Altus Group. Please note that only those who are selected to move forward in the process will be contacted. Thank you.