Senior IT Manager - AI Innovation & Engineering
$9,459–$16,551 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead and develop multiple AI engineering and innovation squads, defining priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans aligned with strategic objectives. Drive the design, development, and deployment of scalable AI-powered products on Google Cloud Platform, overseeing solution architecture, code quality, testing, and security. Build, coach, and retain high-performing teams through hiring, mentoring, and career development while managing budgets, vendor partnerships, and project capacity. Monitor operational performance, address risks, and ensure ongoing support and scalability of AI initiatives across the enterprise. Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Platform Engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions that transform business operations and enhance customer experiences.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or related field
- At least 8-10 years of hands-on experience delivering AI or software engineering initiatives
- Meaningful time in a formal people-management role
- Breadth of knowledge on how innovation and engineering squads integrate within and across different business domains
- Prior experience directly managing engineering or technical talent
- Managing other managers or squad leads
- Performance management responsibility
- Career development responsibility
- Experience with offshore/onsite personnel
- Experience in process architecture aimed at analyzing, simplifying, and improving existing processes
- Bringing in accountability using data/BI tooling to capture and track the right benchmarks across squads
- Hands-on software programming background in Java and/or Python
- Software Architecture and Engineering experience building services (MSA, SOA, Integrations)
- Architect-level experience
- Experience in DevSecOps
- CI/CD, pipeline development
- Hands-on experience building and leading engineering squads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience creating operational dashboards, telemetry configurations and alerting templates for end-to-end flow of data services using APM and Data Logging solutions such as AppDynamics, DataDog etc
- Solid understanding and experience implementing software design patterns and modern standards
- Hands-on technical leader able to work alongside and guide multi-functional squads of software engineers, software architects, data scientists, and software quality engineers as needed
- Strong leadership and interpersonal relationship building skills
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to deliver compelling presentations
- Remote within the United States or Hybrid for associates in Newport News, VA
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of Ferguson's business and application data domains, and how they integrate with core enterprise and third-party systems
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