Senior Manager Software Engineering

At the Acuity Digital Center of Excellence in Cork, we are building a modern AI-powered Commerce Platform delivered through Agile teams operating on an Agile Release Train (ART) aligned to Essential SAFe principles. Our teams build cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled services, and digital commerce capabilities that transform how customers discover, configure, purchase, and interact with our products and services. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineering professionals delivering secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native solutions. This role combines people leadership, technical leadership, and delivery excellence. While this is primarily a leadership position, successful candidates will need to remain technically engaged. You will participate in architecture reviews, guide technical decision-making working with lead engineers, coach engineers of all levels, review designs, support operational excellence initiatives, and help teams solve complex engineering challenges.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

Engineering Leadership

• Lead, mentor, coach, and develop software engineers of varying levels of experience.
• Build and maintain a high-performing engineering organization focused on quality, customer value, and technical excellence.
• Support career development through coaching, performance management, and development planning.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development activities.
• Partner with Lead Engineers and Architects to ensure engineering decisions support long-term platform sustainability.
• Technical Leadership & Hands-On Engagement
• Remain actively engaged in technical discussions, architecture reviews, design reviews, and engineering planning activities.
• Provide guidance on software architecture, cloud-native design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and security.
• Help teams navigate complex technical challenges and architectural trade-offs.
• Promote engineering excellence through modern software development practices, testing, automation, observability, and DevOps.
• Support critical production incidents, root cause analysis efforts, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Delivery Excellence

• Lead engineering execution for Agile teams operating within an Agile Release Train (ART).
• Partner with Product Management and Delivery Leads to align engineering capacity with product priorities and PI objectives.
• Support PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops.
• Drive predictable, high-quality software delivery through planning, execution, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with DevOps, CloudOps, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Architecture teams.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Business organizations.
• Communicate engineering priorities, delivery status, technical risks, and organizational objectives.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, workforce planning, and organizational growth strategies., Acuity Inc. will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor, but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.

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• Proven experience leading software engineering teams in modern product or platform organizations.
• Strong people leadership experience including coaching, mentoring, hiring, and organizational development.
• Previous hands-on software engineering experience delivering cloud-native applications and services.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and modern development practices.
• Experience working within Agile environments and preferably within SAFe frameworks.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, automation, infrastructure, testing, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience building AI-enabled products, machine learning solutions, or data-intensive platforms.
• Experience leading teams delivering digital commerce or platform engineering solutions.
• Experience with Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
• Previous experience as a software engineer using Python, Go,

Other

• Agile: Scrum, Kanban, Essential SAFe, Jira, Azure DevOps
• Collaboration: Confluence, Miro, Microsoft Teams
• Development & Platform: Git, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
• Engineering Practices: CI/CD, GitOps, Automated Testing, DevSecOps, Observability

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals., Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.