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Senior Engineering Manager
As a Senior Engineering Manager at Sygnrum in Zurich, you will lead six engineering teams and foster their autonomy, quality, and security within a regulated financial environment. The focus is on developing leaders, ensuring alignment with business outcomes, and strategically integrating AI tools into the development process.
About the role
- They lead 6 engineering teams—including their respective tech leads—and deliver high-quality, secure software in a regulated financial environment.
- Your influence comes from working with your tech leads, not around them. Our job is to create the conditions under which teams thrive, take ownership, and continuously improve.
Main responsibilities
- Building high-performing teams that focus on their goals and deliver consistent value to our customers
- Ensuring alignment and transparency across teams so they can operate autonomously without drifting apart
- Aligning engineering efforts with user impact and business results through close collaboration with the product, operations, security, and architecture teams
- Promoting engineering excellence with a relentless focus on quality and safety
- Developing products that earn and strengthen our customers' trust
- Promoting a psychologically safe environment in which people can challenge themselves, experiment, and improve
- Responsibility for hiring, workforce planning, and performance management within your area of responsibility
- Taking responsibility for delivery commitments, operational health, and incident response within your teams
- Promoting AI Adoption: We’ve already introduced Claude Code, and you’re enabling your teams to deepen its integration throughout the entire delivery cycle while adhering to our security and compliance standards and supporting them through cultural change
Our Ideal Candidate
- You have led several engineering teams and can demonstrate how delivery and team well-being have improved under your leadership
- You take genuine pride in helping leaders grow. Thanks to your coaching method, your tech leads and engineers have become more capable and autonomous.
- They take performance management seriously. They have honest conversations early on, provide targeted development for their employees, and build loyalty through growth.
- They have a genuine belief that AI is transforming the way software is developed, and a commitment to helping teams adopt it thoughtfully without compromising quality and security
- They have a growth mindset. They raise the bar for how teams work, and others follow their lead.
Our offer
- An attractive combination of market-rate salaries and an entrepreneurial incentive system
- Flexible Work-from-Home Policies
- Professional development through mentoring and buddy programs
- One month of fully paid sabbatical leave after five years of continuous employment
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