Senior Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead a newly formed engineering team advancing athenahealth's Integration Platform, building and developing the team, guiding technical direction, and owning delivery of scalable, reliable integration solutions.

What you'll do

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development lifecycle (AIDLC) practices across planning, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance, with appropriate engineering review and quality controls.
• Identify and deliver opportunities for automation, self-service, and AI-powered tooling to reduce integration turnaround time and improve developer and customer experiences.
• Establish and track meaningful measures of delivery predictability, software quality, platform reliability, engineering productivity, and integration turnaround time.
• Lead the evolution of existing systems while supporting new functionality and maintaining operational continuity.
• Foster agile / AIDLC development practices and use delivery outcomes and team feedback to improve how the team works.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team, establishing clear goals, accountability, and a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor engineers through regular feedback, career development, and opportunities to strengthen technical and leadership skills.
• Own engineering planning and delivery for integration and faxing solutions, managing priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
• Partner with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to translate business objectives into a technical roadmap and achievable delivery plans.
• Guide architectural decisions and engineering practices that improve platform scalability, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the long-term architecture and modernization strategy for the Integration Platform.
• Lead recruiting, onboarding, and talent development to build the capabilities needed for the team's roadmap.
• Partner with operational and advisory teams to identify recurring integration challenges and translate them into reusable platform capabilities.
• Maintain productive relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners, and vendors.
• Support production readiness, incident resolution, and follow-up improvements that strengthen platform reliability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI development tools through focused experiments with measurable outcomes.
• Share technical knowledge and effective engineering practices across teams.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• At least 12 years of experience across software development and engineering leadership, including experience managing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build and develop teams, manage performance, and deliver complex software initiatives.
• Strong technical background in Java and experience designing, developing, or operating scalable enterprise software.
• Experience guiding architectural decisions, managing technical trade-offs, and improving software quality and operational reliability.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and continuous improvement practices.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development and opportunities to apply AI and automation to engineering workflows.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to non-technical audiences.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.