Technical Engineering Manager - SD, Remote: Colombia - Costa Rica, Fulltime

As a Technical Engineering Manager, you will lead high-performing, multidisciplinary engineering teams while remaining deeply connected to the technical execution. This role blends people leadership, delivery ownership, technical decision-making, and client-facing collaboration.
You will be responsible for end-to-end delivery across one or more engagements, ensuring strong engineering practices, high-quality outcomes, and alignment with client and business goals.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership

- Provide hands-on technical leadership across teams, participating in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.

- Guide teams in modern architecture patterns such as microservices, event-driven systems, and modular monoliths.

- Ensure engineering solutions align with cloud-native best practices (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Support design reviews, technical spikes, and proof-of-concepts when needed.

People & Team Leadership

- Lead and mentor developers, QA engineers, DevOps, and other engineering roles

- Coach technical leads and senior engineers, supporting career growth and leadership development.

- Own performance management, feedback, promotions, and compensation processes.

- Address conflict, performance challenges, and team dynamics proactively and constructively.

Delivery Ownership

- Own scope, schedule, quality, and delivery outcomes end-to-end for assigned engagements.

- Be actively involved in day-to-day delivery activities, including standups, unblockers, and release coordination.

- Track and manage delivery metrics such as cycle time, throughput, DORA metrics, SLAs/SLOs, and velocity.

- Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and blockers to ensure predictable delivery.

Client-Facing Leadership

- Act as a technical point of contact for clients, participating in architecture reviews, delivery updates, and QBRs.

- Clearly communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery status to both technical and executive stakeholders.

- Support proposals, estimates, statements of work, and account growth initiatives in collaboration with sales and leadership teams.

Financial & Operational Awareness

- Understand and support forecasting, staffing, utilization, margin, and team allocation for assigned engagements.

- Partner with delivery and leadership teams to ensure the financial health and sustainability of projects.

- Balance delivery excellence with cost, efficiency, and long-term scalability.

Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience (software development or DevOps), with recent technical involvement.

- 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role, leading teams of engineers directly.

- Strong experience with modern architectures, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and CI/CD practices.

- Solid understanding of IaC, test automation, observability, and SRE concepts (SLOs, SLAs, incident response).

- Experience working directly with U.S.-based clients in delivery and technical leadership roles.

- Excellent English communication skills (C1/C2), written and verbal, with the ability to communicate clearly with engineers and executives alike.

- Experience in consulting services environments.

Nice to Have

- Exposure to pre-sales activities, estimations, or proposal support.

- Background in scaling teams or helping organizations modernize legacy systems.

Originally posted on Himalayas