Engineering Manager, Platform

The Role

ABCorp is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering team — a player-coach role with direct responsibility for the people, architecture, and delivery across data, analytics, APIs, and integrations. You will manage a team of 3–5 engineers and own the technical foundation that every product team at ABCorp depends on, spanning operational and customer data flows, cloud data infrastructure, API development, and third-party system integrations.

• Own the Platform Engineering roadmap — prioritizing initiatives across data pipelines, warehouse infrastructure, API development, integration architecture, and operational data systems in close collaboration with Product, Sales, and Customer Success.
• Architect and deliver APIs and integrations that connect ABCorp’s core products to external platforms — including ERP systems, CRM tools, payment networks, and third-party data providers — with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and developer experience.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and observability of ABCorp’s data platform — including cloud data pipelines, the analytics warehouse, data quality frameworks, and the self-service infrastructure that product and business teams depend on daily.
• Own the operational and customer data domain — the models, pipelines, and reporting layers that power product analytics, customer success, sales operations, and executive reporting across ABCorp’s product lines.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for your team — reviewing system designs and architecture proposals, unblocking complex cross-team dependencies, and ensuring the platform upholds high standards of reliability and engineering discipline.
• Drive engineering best practices across the Platform Engineering team — including code quality standards, testing coverage, documentation habits, and delivery rigor — raising the bar as the team and domain scale.
• Partner with Product Management, Sales, and Customer Success to translate business requirements into a coherent platform roadmap — building cross-functional alignment on priorities, trade-offs, and delivery commitments.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional software or data engineering experience, with 2+ years in a formal engineering lead or management role overseeing a technical team.
• Hands-on technical depth in at least two of the following: data platform engineering (pipelines, warehouse, dbt, Spark), API development (REST, GraphQL, event streaming), system integrations (ETL/ELT, ERP/CRM connectors, webhooks), or analytics engineering.
• Demonstrated experience owning a technical domain end-to-end — setting engineering standards, driving code quality, managing architecture decisions, and delivering reliably against a roadmap, ideally across a multi-person team.
• Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure relevant to platform engineering — including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, ADLS, Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, or similar services.
• Experience with legacy operational systems — ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics), CRM platforms, or manufacturing systems — and building integrations or data pipelines that bridge legacy and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Strong communicator and cross-functional partner — able to represent the Platform Engineering team to Product, Sales, and Executive stakeholders, align on priorities under ambiguity, and translate technical complexity into clear decisions.
• Experience growing and developing individual contributors — through 1:1s, feedback, career conversations, and giving engineers opportunities that stretch their abilities and build their confidence.
• Familiarity with payments, card issuance, authentication, identity, fintech, or secure manufacturing is a plus — or a genuine curiosity to learn an industry with real technical depth and meaningful real-world impact.
• A track record of building high-performing teams where engineers grow, stay, and do their best work.
• Ability to work onsite in Boston, MA.