Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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Position Overview

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads the strategy, design, development, deployment, and support of enterprise automation solutions that improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and enhance business outcomes across Adaptive. This role is responsible for building and leading a high-performing automation engineering team while establishing governance, standards, and best practices for automation development and operations.

Leaders at Adaptive demonstrate behaviors consistent with Adaptive’s Core Values and Leadership Principles. Critical functions of your role include helping establish individual team member goals, aligning those individual goals with broader team objectives, and ensuring those objectives drive the achievement of company goals. Providing thoughtful coaching and consistent feedback to your team members will drive performance excellence and accountability, as well as support your team members’ growth and development. Leaders at Adaptive create an environment of belonging, respect, and open and honest communication every day.

Duties and Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development

Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing Business Process Automation engineering team

Establish team objectives, success metrics, and development plans aligned with company goals

Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, customer focus, and continuous improvement

Manage hiring, performance management, succession planning, and career development activities

Establish engineering standards, delivery processes, and operational best practices

Automation Strategy & Digital Transformation

Develop and execute an enterprise-wide automation strategy aligned with business priorities

Identify, evaluate, and prioritize high-value automation opportunities across departments

Create and maintain a multi-year automation roadmap

Partner with business and technology leaders to drive digital transformation initiatives

Evaluate emerging automation and AI technologies and recommend solutions that deliver business value

Solution Delivery

Lead all phases of automation development including process discovery, solution design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support

Ensure automation solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, reusable, and compliant with enterprise standards

Oversee end-to-end delivery of automation projects using UiPath and related platforms

Drive continuous optimization and enhancement of existing automation solutions

Participate in release planning, deployment activities, and platform lifecycle management

Business Partnership

Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational processes and identify automation opportunities

Facilitate process discovery and process improvement workshops

Translate business requirements into scalable automation solutions

Communicate project status, risks, outcomes, and ROI to senior leadership

Collaborate closely with IT, Security, Compliance, and business teams to ensure successful adoption

Governance & Operational Excellence

Establish and maintain automation governance frameworks, standards, and development lifecycle processes

Define coding standards, documentation requirements, testing practices, and code review procedures

Develop reusable automation components, frameworks, and accelerators

Ensure compliance with security, audit, privacy, and regulatory requirements

Manage platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, licensing, environment management, and platform health monitoring

AI & Intelligent Automation

Evaluate and implement AI capabilities that enhance business process automation

Integrate technologies such as Document Understanding, OCR, generative AI, and machine learning into automation workflows

Identify opportunities to evolve from task automation to intelligent process automation

Stay current on emerging AI and automation technologies and assess their applicability to Adaptive's business needs

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or related field with 10+ years of experience in software engineering, automation engineering, enterprise applications, or related technical disciplines, including leadership experience

Experience building and leading technical engineering teams

Hands-on experience with enterprise automation platforms such as UiPath, Power Automate, Automation Anywhere, or similar technologies

Experience delivering large-scale automation initiatives from strategy through production support

Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), automation architecture, governance, and operational best practices

Experience with programming languages such as Python, C#, Java, or similar

Experience integrating enterprise systems through APIs, web services, and modern integration frameworks

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences

Experience operating within cross-functional environments and partnering with business leaders to drive change

Preferred

UiPath certifications and experience managing enterprise UiPath environments

Experience with intelligent automation, AI/ML technologies, OCR, and generative AI solutions

Experience establishing or leading an Automation Center of Excellence (CoE)

Experience supporting highly regulated environments with strong security and compliance requirements

Experience with cloud-based services, modern architecture patterns, and enterprise platforms

Working Conditions

Office environment

Travel as required, up to 10%

Compensation

Salary Range: $163,100 - $244,700

Other Compensation May Include:

Equity grant

Annual bonus eligibility

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