Manager, Foundry Engineering & Engineering Enablement

About the Role

Engineering & Intelligence is building a capability-based organization to support McCarthy’s next stage of growth. The Engineering, Data & AI pillar provides the technical capabilities required to build, integrate, operate, govern, and scale applications, Foundry, data, AI, and engineering platforms. The Manager, Foundry Engineering & Engineering Enablement will lead the engineering capability responsible for building, extending, and operating McCarthy’s Foundry-based solutions while establishing the engineering practices required to scale delivery.

Responsibilities

• Foundry Engineering Leadership:
  • Lead the Foundry engineering team, including Palantir FDEs, transitioning BI developers, and future McCarthy Foundry engineers.
  • Establish one Foundry engineering backlog, delivery cadence, technical direction, and production ownership model.
  • Partner with Palantir and internal stakeholders to translate business and product priorities into executable engineering plans.
  • Lead the transition from primarily partner-delivered capacity toward a durable McCarthy Foundry engineering capability.
  • Coordinate technical dependencies across Foundry, applications, integrations, data, AI, security, and enterprise architecture.
  • Ensure Foundry solutions are designed for maintainability, supportability, security, reliability, and operational readiness.
  • Establish practical development, testing, release, and production-support practices for Foundry delivery.
• Engineering Enablement and Platform Engineering:
  • Establish and mature CI/CD practices for engineering teams and shared platforms.
  • Improve developer experience through reusable tooling, templates, environments, automation, and engineering workflows.
  • Establish quality engineering practices, including test automation, integration testing, regression coverage, and release controls.
  • Build reliability practices covering observability, incident readiness, resilience, operational runbooks, and production support.
  • Define and reinforce engineering standards for source control, branching, code review, automation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and supportability.
  • Partner with platform administration on environment readiness, access, governance, platform health, and FinOps-related dependencies.
  • Create reusable reference implementations and patterns that accelerate delivery across applications, Foundry, data, and AI.
• Leadership and Operating Model:
  • Set clear expectations for delivery, technical quality, collaboration, and operational ownership.
  • Coach engineers and technical leads and create a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Manage employees, contractors, and strategic delivery partners as applicable to the final role level.
  • Make tradeoffs visible and escalate risks, dependencies, and decisions early.
  • Establish meaningful measures for engineering flow, quality, reliability, delivery predictability, and platform adoption.
  • Contribute to hiring, workforce planning, onboarding, and capability development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 8 years relevant experience, including 3+ years leading software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or technology delivery teams.
• Strong hands-on understanding of modern software engineering practices, including source control, CI/CD, testing, deployment automation, observability, and production support.
• Experience with cloud platforms, APIs, distributed systems, integration, containers, infrastructure automation, or developer platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical work across multiple teams and translate business or product goals into executable engineering plans.
• Experience managing or leading internal employees, contractors, or delivery partners.
• Ability to establish practical standards without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Strong communication, coaching, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Palantir Foundry or a comparable enterprise data, analytics, or application platform.
• Experience transitioning from systems-integrator or contractor-led delivery to an internal engineering capability.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, automated testing, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Experience operating technology in a regulated, complex, or enterprise environment.

McCarthy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status.