Senior Engineering Manager overseeing engineering teams for Guidewire's APD product platform. Leading technical evolution and team culture in a high-trust environment.
Responsibilities
Lead multiple APD engineering teams, typically 2–3 small teams and their technical leads, building a high-accountability, high-trust culture that emphasizes coaching, inclusion, innovation, and continuous learning.
Drive the architecture, delivery, and operational maturity of APD on App Platform 2.0, ensuring services are scalable, secure, observable, and aligned to Guidewire engineering standards.
Own delivery across APD’s key design-time and runtime capabilities, including the continued evolution of APD services, APIs, and supporting platform integrations.
Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, UX, Platform Engineering, Security, and SRE to translate product strategy into execution plans, drive launches, and ensure APD meets customer, compliance, and reliability expectations.
Help shape APD’s role as the product-model source of truth across the platform, including its relationship to schemas, rules, APIs, downstream digital experiences, and broader App Platform services.
Drive platform stewardship by working across adjacent capabilities such as Rules, Schema Editor, Package Manager, App Manager, and other lifecycle services to improve interoperability, reuse, and developer experience.
Champion responsible adoption of AI, automation, and data-driven engineering practices across the organization, both in how teams build software and in how APD capabilities evolve over time.
Establish strong execution discipline across multiple teams by setting clear priorities, improving planning and delivery predictability, and ensuring high-quality outcomes across feature delivery, reliability, and security.
Hire, coach, and develop senior engineers and technical leads, raising the technical and leadership bar while creating growth opportunities for the organization.
Requirements
Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to engineering leadership, product delivery, and team productivity, using data-driven insight to improve outcomes.
Extensive software engineering experience in SaaS or platform product development, with substantial experience managing engineering teams and leading through technical leads or multiple teams.
Strong hands-on technical background in Java and modern backend engineering, with depth in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and secure multi-tenant platforms.
Proven experience building and operating cloud applications on modern platforms such as AWS, including Kubernetes, containerization, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
Experience driving architectural decisions, design reviews, and technical execution for platform or enterprise software products.
Demonstrated experience integrating AI/ML or GenAI capabilities into production software, platforms, or software engineering workflows.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to influence product, architecture, UX, platform, and operations stakeholders.
Strong communication, judgment, and organizational leadership, with a track record of delivering measurable business and engineering outcomes across a broad scope.
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Health and wellness benefits
Paid time off programs including volunteer time off
Market-competitive pay and incentive programs
Continual development and internal career growth opportunities
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