Tech Manager, Engineering, Actimize

As Tech Manager, Engineering, you will lead a team of developers and testers building a cloud-native SaaS financial crime and compliance solution on AWS. You will own delivery, quality, and team growth, while providing hands-on technical direction on architecture, scalability, and security. You will work with teams across locations. The ideal candidate should have strong technical skills and be able to provide expert technical guidance for engineering initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with solid project management skills. You will guide the team to follow best-in-class development and testing practices to deliver high-quality products.

• Own and continuously improve the SDLC, including code review, branching, release, and test automation standards, to shorten release cycles and reduce escaped defects.
• Work closely with product managers, QA engineers, technical writers, and software engineers to define/develop features - big and small for our products.
• Actively guide and mentor the team to develop product features.
• Assist in the development of short, medium, and long-term plans to achieve strategic objectives
• Drive and impact all current processes related to software development and improvements across the org as necessary.
• Manage all aspects of the team, such as hiring, reviews, mentoring, and promotions, etc.
• Prioritize, assign and manage department activities and projects in accordance with the R&D department’s goals and objectives.
• Develop performance-oriented culture
• Promote innovation and ensure best software quality of products

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering including 4+ years building cloud or SaaS products.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Own the technical design and architecture review process for the team, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards
• Own production readiness: SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and post-incident reviews
• Ensure security and compliance by design (data protection, access control, audit logging, SOC 2 and similar frameworks)
• Experience building products using architecture guidelines particularly using public cloud
• Should have extensive experience with large products (large number of stakeholders, multi locations/global footprint, complex SaaS products)
• Strong technical background in Node.js/TypeScript and AWS-based microservices; able to review code and guide design decisions.
• Proven track record of managing the development of enterprise-grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem.
• Experience building software using AIDLC and AI assisted coding tools.
• Experience developing Cloud based software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad Cloud ecosystem.
• Experience with CI CD practices using standard tools such as Jenkins, Docker, VMs and Artifactory
• Working knowledge IaC tools like Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Effective People Management skills - Holds team members accountable and inspires, motivates, develops, and engages team to create strong morale and spirit; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue, and creates a feeling of belonging in the team

Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NiCE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NiCEr!

At NiCE, we work according to the NiCE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.

Requisition ID: 11922
Reporting into: Director of Engineering
Role Type: Tech Manager