Sr Manager Engineering

Position Summary:

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead one or more software engineering teams developing and operating a cloud-native SaaS platform used by cancer patients, clinicians, and healthcare providers. This role combines engineering leadership, technical decision-making, delivery ownership, and people management.

The ideal candidate has experience building and scaling highly available SaaS applications on AWS, leading cross-functional product teams, and delivering software in regulated environments such as healthcare, medical devices, or other quality-sensitive industries.

The product is Varian’s cloud-based software solution for patient relationships and care navigation management. It’s designed to connect cancer patients with their clinics online throughout the entire cancer journey. The product used by 35 000+ active cancer patients and healthcare professionals from leading oncology centers in North America and Europe. The candidate in this role will provide strong product development leadership to a team of software engineers and test engineers, working in an agile/scrum environment.

Job Description

Position Duties:

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of strong software engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers.

Drive the adoption of Generative AI technologies, AI agents, and intelligent automation to improve both customer experience and engineering productivity.

Foster a high-performance engineering culture emphasizing ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Drive recruitment, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.

Work closely with Product Management, UX, Clinical, Regulatory, and Quality teams to translate business objectives into executable plans.

Drive predictable execution through agile development methodologies.

Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, automation, incident management, and reliability engineering practices.

Champion DevOps and CI/CD practices that enable rapid and safe deployments.

Oversee disaster recovery, business continuity, and production readiness activities.

Collaborate with Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Security teams. Ensure software development activities comply with applicable quality and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications Required: BE, MSc, MCA, Computer Science or related discipline.

Number of year’s related experience : 8-12 years

Special Knowledge / Skills:

Required:

10-12 years of software engineering experience. 3+ years leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager.

Strong SaaS operational experience (running production services, not just building features).

Hands-on technical credibility - able to review designs, challenge architecture decisions, and occasionally dive into code.

Proven experience leading engineering transformation in cloud SaaS environments.

A track record of adopting AI technologies to improve products and engineering effectiveness.

Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies.

Strong understanding of software architecture and system design.

Strong object-oriented programming skills in JAVA and Kotlin with Spring.

Mobile app development experience with open-source UI toolkit (React native, Flutter etc.)

Experience working with source control and configuration management tools like Gitlab.

Experience with several of the following:

AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM)

Kubernetes

Terraform or Infrastructure as Code

Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or similar modern languages

React, Angular, or modern frontend frameworks

REST APIs and event-driven architectures

PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases

Observability tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic

Nice to have:

Experience developing healthcare products conforming quality system regulations.

Experience in healthcare domain and medical interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7

Certifications from AWS or Azure