Manager, Engineering

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Position Summary:

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead cross-functional Agile engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions that power the travel ecosystem. You will drive technical excellence, operational stability, product delivery, and people development while contributing to Amadeus’ long-term technology strategy. This role requires strong technical depth, end-to-end delivery ownership, leadership maturity, and the ability to collaborate across global teams.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Delivery Leadership

· Own end-to-end delivery for your team(s) including scope, planning, prioritization, and quality.

· Ensure zero slippage on committed features, SLAs, and release milestones.

· Establish predictable delivery practices using SAFe, Win Approach, Jira, WSR, KPIs, and engineering metrics.

· Uphold Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) practices and enforce engineering standards.

· Identify risks early and drive mitigation strategies.

2. Technical & Engineering Excellence

· Provide technical direction and guidance across architecture, design, code quality, and performance.

· Champion continuous improvement of engineering practices, tooling, automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and FinOps.

· Drive innovation initiatives—GenAI adoption, automation opportunities, and emerging-tech exploration.

· Evaluate design trade-offs, drive root cause analysis (RCA), and ensure learning loops.

3. People Leadership & Talent Development

· Manage, coach, and grow engineers and technical specialists.

· Conduct performance reviews, career discussions, and ongoing feedback cycles.

· Build a trusting, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

· Identify high-potential talent (HiPos/HiPros) and support their growth, mentoring programs, and succession planning.

· Reinforce Amadeus culture, values, and ways of working.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

· Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, Program Managers.

· Represent engineering in cross-BU initiatives, SAFe ceremonies, and leadership syncs.

· Communicate effectively on progress, risks, dependencies, and decision-points.

· Engage with customer-facing teams to address escalations, operational issues, and roadmap alignment.

5. Operational Excellence

· Ensure operational stability with clear KPIs (e.g., PTR, defects, uptime, latency, SLA adherence).

· Drive incident management best practices, on-call readiness, and regression handling.

· Promote documentation excellence and knowledge-management discipline.

Required Skills & Experience:

Technical Skills

· Strong engineering background (software development ( Java Full stack), cloud, .

· Hands-on understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, and observability.

· Familiarity with Amadeus ecosystem, enterprise architecture, toolchains, and engineering practices (a strong plus).

Leadership & Behavioral Skills

· Effective people leadership and team-building capabilities.

· Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

· Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and execution focus.

· Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity.

· Ability to influence without authority across teams and geographies.

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Education & Experience

· 10–14 years of overall experience, with prior engineering or team-lead experience.

· Experience managing cross-functional technical teams in a global setup.

· Exposure to SAFe or large-scale Agile environments preferred.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.  

Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.