Sr Manager, Systems Architecture Eng

Job Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of Senior+ engineers; foster a culture of accountability, ownership, innovation, and continuous growth.
• Continuously improve team processes, tools, operational efficiency, and delivery velocity — building systems that scale.
• Own the organizational capex budget
• Define deployment process and approach for pre-GA technologies and emerging capabilities
• Drive AI integration across team workflows, tooling, and operations — as a current expectation, not a future aspiration.
• Build and sustain trusted partnerships with stakeholders across internal and external partners; influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
• Develop engineers into cross-org technical leaders who drive direction and decisions beyond their immediate scope.
• Communicate strategy, progress, and risk to senior and executive leadership with clarity and business context.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or 8 years of related experience, OR Advanced degree with 6 years (Required)
• Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Preferred)
• 5+ years of People Management experience, including leading Senior+ level engineers (Preferred)
• Technical background in IP networking, systems architecture, or infrastructure engineering (Preferred)
• Experience managing organizational budgets and making investment trade-offs (Preferred)
• Experience with external technology vendor partnerships and negotiations (Preferred)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Engineering Leadership & Talent Development — Builds and develops high-performing Senior+ technical teams; coaches engineers into cross-org leaders; creates cultures of accountability, innovation, and growth.
• Strategic Thinking & Long-Range Planning — Determines standards, strategy and efficiencies for hardware deployment. Turns long-horizon goals into actionable roadmaps; balances near-term delivery with long-term capability building in fast-moving environments.
• Technical Credibility — Sufficient technical depth to earn the trust of Senior+ engineers; guides architectural decisions and accelerates problem-solving without being the executor.
• High Agency & Adaptability — Moves with urgency; creates clarity in undefined spaces including pre-GA technologies and greenfield capability areas; builds teams that share this orientation.
• AI Integration & Innovation — Actively integrates AI tools into engineering workflows and team operations today; builds a culture that experiments and operates at the frontier of emerging technology.
• Organizational Influence — Influences decisions and aligns outcomes across NIO, T-Mobile leadership, and external partners; credible with technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Financial & Resource Management — Manages organizational budgets and resource allocation with rigor; translates financial decisions into business impact for leadership.
• Communication & Executive Presence — Communicates complex strategy clearly and concisely; consistently builds confidence with senior and executive stakeholders.
• Operational Excellence — Designs processes that allow teams to scale; manages competing priorities with discipline; drives continuous improvement in delivery and execution.
• Vendor Management — Selects vendor partners capable of matching a world-class, cost-optimized deployment standard; holds partners accountable for performance and outcomes, driving them toward genuine operational maturity; builds oversight structures that scale without compromising quality or schedule.