Engineering Manager

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enable companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety, and sustainability initiatives. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable, and productive world.

As a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company, we are committed to driving innovation and performance while maintaining uncompromising integrity in the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) space.

Guided by our core values—Customer-Centric, Accountable, Innovative, Collaborative, and Action-Oriented—we foster a culture where our global team of 1,400 Spherion’s thrives in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment.

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead, coordinate, and scale distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones. This role blends technical leadership, delivery management, and vendor coordination to ensure high‑quality software delivery through offshore and outsourced partners.

You’ll be responsible for building strong collaboration models, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring that globally distributed teams operate as one cohesive unit

You will own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for your teams—from sprint planning and architecture decisions through deployment, monitoring, and production support—and will serve as a key bridge between product management, DevOps, and senior engineering leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Coordination
  • Lead and mentor offshore development teams, ensuring alignment with engineering standards and company goals
  • Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and communication practices across distributed teams
  • Facilitate daily/weekly syncs, sprint ceremonies, and asynchronous workflows
  • Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement

• Technical Leadership & Software Delivery:
  • Own end‑to‑end delivery of software projects across multiple teams and vendors
  • Ensure sprint commitments, release timelines, and quality targets are consistently met
  • Oversee the design, development, testing, and delivery of features, ensuring high standards of code quality, security, and scalability
  • Provide architectural guidance for .NET-based applications, web services, and database solutions running on Microsoft Azure.
  • Drive adoption of engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and documentation standards.
  • Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and frameworks that improve developer productivity and system reliability.

• Vendor & Outsourcing Management
  • Manage relationships with offshore development partners and outsourcing vendors
  • Ensure vendor staffing stability and skill alignment
  • Conduct regular performance reviews and contract evaluations

• Operational Support & DevOps Coordination
  • Own operational readiness for your teams’ services: define SLAs, monitor production health, and coordinate incident response.
  • Partner with DevOps engineers to maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, ensuring seamless build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Manage on-call rotations and escalation procedures; lead root cause analysis and drive corrective actions for production incidents.

• Stakeholder Communication & Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Serve as engineering point of contact and primary liaison between onshore stakeholders and offshore teams
  • Promote strong cross‑team collaboration across time zones
  • Facilitate effective Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, standups, retrospectives) and continuously refine team processes.
  • Collaborate with QA, UX, product management, and customer support teams to ensure seamless end-to-end delivery and customer satisfaction.

• Process & Quality Management
  • Improve development processes to optimize distributed team productivity
  • Drive automation, testing, and quality‑first engineering culture
  • Monitor delivery metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect rates) and implement improvements
  • Ensure documentation is complete, accessible, and up to date

Qualifications & Experience

Required:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering leadership or management, with a strong track record of driving technical innovation and organizational growth.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Proven success managing offshore or outsourced development team.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Strong proficiency in .NET development (C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API) and relational database technologies (Microsoft SQL Server) and Microsoft Azure cloud services (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, or similar).
• Excellent communication and cross‑cultural collaboration skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience with multi‑vendor environments
• Background in scaling distributed engineering organizations
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and cloud platforms

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Sphera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues.

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