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September 18, 2026

Senior Manager, Platform Engineering and Delivery

Senior

106,600 - 190,000 USD/yr

Irving, TX

Quick Facts

  • Role: Senior Manager, Platform Engineering and Delivery

Description

Lead multiple delivery capability domains within Platform Engineering to improve software delivery across the organization. You will own the annual and multi-year delivery engineering strategy and roadmap, defining shared standards and governance that measurably improve developer productivity, software quality, operational consistency, release reliability, adoption, and security posture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead platform delivery roadmap and investment priorities across multiple delivery capability domains

  • Drive strategy and execution for CI/CD, artifact management, production containers, code quality, and security scanning

  • Standardize software packages, build outputs, and containerized workloads to be reliable, traceable, secure, and consistent

  • Improve quality and security by shifting security earlier (secure-by-default practices and security scanning)

  • Partner cross-functionally with security, infrastructure, developer experience, and application engineering to remove friction and deliver shared solutions

  • Establish and evolve delivery processes, standards, governance, and operational metrics to hold teams accountable

  • Coach and develop technical leaders and engineers; support hiring, organization design, workforce planning, and performance management

  • Drive enterprise adoption of shared delivery platforms and standards and influence senior leadership with recommendations and trade-offs

  • Manage operating capacity and approved tooling/vendor investments balancing cost, reliability, security, and developer experience

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience with 3+ years of management experience leading software engineering teams

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience

  • Domain experience in one or more delivery areas: CI/CD, artifact repositories, container platforms, code quality tooling, software supply chain controls, security scanning

  • Strong technical judgment of modern software delivery architecture; ability to assess risk and guide trade-offs

  • Proven people leadership across complex, cross-organizational initiatives (coaching, mentoring, performance management, succession planning, organization design)

  • Operational excellence: planning, portfolio prioritization, execution management, service accountability, risk mitigation, capacity planning, vendor/tooling investment decisions

  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive-influence skills

  • Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Benefits

  • Base salary range: $106,600 to $190,000 (depends on skills, qualifications, and experience)

  • Potential discretionary short-term and long-term incentives

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