Senior Manager, Software Engineering — Cloud Platform

#### **Senior Manager, Software Engineering — Cloud Platform**

• *What you will do**

In this role you will

• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for building and operating Teradata's next\-generation cloud platform and infrastructure services.
• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for scalable, reliable, and secure cloud platform capabilities.
• Lead the architecture, development, and operation of distributed cloud services supporting provisioning, resource lifecycle management, orchestration, configuration, automation, and platform operations.
• Drive engineering excellence across the organization, including architecture, software quality, reliability, scalability, security, observability, and operational readiness.
• Build a strong culture of ownership where engineering teams are accountable for the complete lifecycle of their services—from design and development through production operations.
• Partner closely with Product, Cloud Operations, SRE, Security, Architecture, and Customer\-facing organizations to translate business and customer requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
• Establish and drive execution across multiple teams, balancing near\-term delivery commitments with long\-term platform investments and technical debt reduction.
• Develop common platform frameworks and reusable capabilities that enable engineering teams to build and operate cloud services efficiently.
• Lead initiatives spanning multiple cloud providers and regions, with a focus on automation, resilience, cost efficiency, and operational consistency.
• Drive modernization of engineering processes through automation, AI\-assisted development, intelligent operations, and self\-service capabilities.
• Establish metrics and operating mechanisms for engineering productivity, service reliability, delivery predictability, quality, and customer impact.
• Represent the cloud platform organization in senior technical and product discussions and influence engineering strategy across the company.

• *What makes you a qualified candidate**

• 12\+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant experience leading large\-scale cloud or distributed systems organizations.
• 5\+ years of engineering management experience, with demonstrated experience leading multiple teams and senior technical leaders.
• Proven experience building and operating production cloud platforms, distributed systems, infrastructure services, or SaaS platforms at scale.
• Strong technical background in cloud architecture, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, networking, security, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience leading engineering organizations through architecture, development, production deployment, and operational ownership of complex distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of multi\-tenant cloud architectures, resource provisioning, lifecycle management, orchestration, scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience working across AWS, Azure, GCP, or comparable cloud environments.
• Strong software engineering background with hands\-on experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Go, or Python.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at both strategic and technical levels, from organizational planning to architecture and critical technical decisions.

• *What you will bring**

• Experience managing managers, senior engineers, architects, and technical leads across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience building high\-performing engineering organizations with clear ownership, accountability, and technical leadership.
• Strong systems\-thinking mindset with the ability to connect cloud infrastructure, control planes, data planes, applications, security, observability, and operations end\-to\-end.
• Experience establishing platform engineering practices that enable teams to move faster while maintaining reliability and security.
• Strong understanding of production operations, incident management, root cause analysis, service\-level objectives, capacity management, and operational excellence.
• Experience driving engineering transformation through automation, self\-service, developer tooling, and AI\-enabled engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex architectures, eliminate duplicated capabilities, and establish reusable platform foundations.
• Strong business and product judgment with the ability to prioritize investments across customer value, engineering velocity, reliability, cost, and long\-term platform strategy.
• Excellent communication and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to influence executives, product leaders, architects, and engineering teams.
• A passion for building platforms that enable other engineering teams to deliver reliable cloud products at scale.

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