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Senior Manager, Scientific Data Engineering

TetraScience· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote / Flexible)$150k - $230kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager to lead Scientific Data Engineers across multiple squads, driving both technical and organizational excellence, with a focus on scalable processes, cross-team collaboration, and strategic execution.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise and guide SDEs in each squad in planning, implementation, testing, and documentation. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
  • Lead by example - comfortable with diving deeper into organizational and technical challenges and help the team navigate ambiguity and vagueness.
  • Manage performance, career development, and org design as teams scale
  • Hire, mentor, and retain strong engineering talent; build a pipeline of future technical leaders
  • Proactively identify inefficiencies in engineering workflows, processes, and cross-team handoffs — don't wait to be told something is broken
  • Design and implement systems (planning cadences, metrics, tooling) that increase velocity and reduce friction across teams
  • Establish and track meaningful engineering metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, incident rates, etc.) to guide decisions
  • Drive continuous process improvement, balancing speed with sustainability
  • Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, architecture, testing, and operational reliability across teams
  • Partner with tech leads and architects on key technical decisions and trade-offs
  • Champion best practices in system design, scalability, and maintainability
  • Stay close enough to the technical details to ask sharp questions and unblock teams when needed
  • Translate company and product strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps across multiple teams
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and timelines
  • Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive leadership
  • Own budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation for your organization

Qualifications

  • Overall 10+ years of work experience, including at least 5 years being a manager or leading through other managers
  • Proven track record of identifying and resolving operational inefficiencies at scale (process, tooling, or organizational)
  • Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence — quality, reliability, and maintainable systems, not just shipping speed
  • Experience managing managers and building organizational structure as teams grow
  • Strong technical background with the credibility to engage deeply on architecture and design decisions
  • Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executive stakeholders
  • Experience setting and using engineering metrics to drive decisions and improvements
  • Comfortable working in a changing environment and navigating through unclear requirements

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementSystems thinking and process optimizationTechnical architecture and designExecutive communication

Benefits

  • 100% employer paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.
  • 401K.
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
  • Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About TetraScience

The only R&D data cloud for life sciences

TetraScience provides the world’s first and only R&D Data Cloud, with a mission to transform life sciences R&D, accelerate discovery, and improve human life. Scientists at global pharma and biotech organizations rely on our innovative Tetra Data Platform for easy access to centralized, harmonized, and actionable scientific data to accelerate their digital lab transformation. With best-in-class SaaS performance, a team of industry innovators, and excellent product/market fit, Tetra is positioned to become an iconic life sciences software company.

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