Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) is looking for an action-oriented leader to manage our Software Program as a part of the Data Analytics & Digital Integration (DA&DI) organization. This position is located in Seattle, WA or Arlington, VA or El Segundo, CA or Ridley Park, PA or Saint Louis, MO.

We are seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead and scale end-to-end software development across a portfolio of mission-critical platforms and applications. This leader will own the full software lifecycle from strategy and architecture to development, deployment, and operations while building a high-performing engineering organization.

This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can operate at both strategic and execution levels, drive engineering excellence, and deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality software systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and scale high-performing engineering teams (platform, application, data, DevOps).
• Ensure tight alignment between business needs and engineering execution.
• Build a culture of accountability, speed, and engineering excellence.
• Own hiring, org design, and performance management across global teams (U.S. and international).

• Own the full SDLC across all systems.
• Drive predictable, high-quality delivery across programs.
• Strong focus on real, production-grade outcomes.
• Own system boundaries and data ownership.
• Strong focus on product-based development using modern agile practices.

• Define and enforce target architecture across multiple platforms (e.g., AWS, Palantir Foundry, SAP) for data, pipelines, storage, ontology, applications, and workflows.

• Build integrated, end-to-end user experiences, eliminate multi-app sprawl.

• Standardize APIs and service contracts, event-driven/data integration patterns, shared services and reusable components.

• Build a developer platform that enables rapid, consistent delivery: CI/CD pipelines, environment standardization (dev/test/prod), Infrastructure as Code, and Global DevSecOps
• Enable seamless development across AWS-native services, on-prem systems, and Palantir Foundry ecosystem.
• Improve developer productivity and cycle time through tooling and automation.

• Establish non-negotiable standards for code quality, test coverage, and release stability.
• Implement SRE practices with SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, logging, tracing, and incident response and postmortems.
• Ensure systems are production-grade, not prototypes.

• Enforce clear data ownership and access boundaries.
• Ensure compliance with ITAR / export control and enterprise security standards.
• Implement secure coding practices, role-based access control, and full auditability.
• Prevent uncontrolled vendor access to core systems.

• Define and enforce end-to-end operational workflows (ConOps) from data ingestion to analytics to decision to action.
• Ensure systems support real operational usage, not just technical capability: Real-time/near-real-time responsiveness where needed and role-based, intuitive interfaces.
• Build "command center" experiences as unified systems – not collections of tools.
• Define and track operational metrics such as time-to-decision, workflow completion, and user adoption.
• Establish feedback loops from users to engineering and development.

• Ensure tight integration between data pipelines (AWS lakehouse), ontologies (Palantir Foundry) and applications.
• Support AI/GenAI use cases with reliable data access and scalable pipelines.
• Standardize how data, logic, and models interact across systems.

• Implement lightweight but strict governance for architecture reviews, code standards, release controls.
• Drive transparency via metrics such as delivery timelines, system performance, and engineering productivity.
• Own escalation and risk management across programs.

• Manage and optimize global development teams.
• Define a clear global delivery model to handle ITAR-sensitive systems.
• Ensure consistent standards across regions, clear ownership boundaries and efficient collaboration across time zones.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years in software engineering.
• 3+ years in a leadership role
• 10+ years experience building and scaling distributed, cloud-native systems
• 10+ years experience in full stack software development (REACT, Springboot, Node.js, DBT, Git, etc)
• 5+ years experience in agile development
• 10+ years of professional experience do you have with C, C++, C#, Python, Java, or Ada?

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Palantir Foundry or similar platforms
• Experience in defense, aerospace, or regulated environments
• Familiarity with data platforms, AI/ML systems, and large-scale integrations
• Experience managing global engineering teams
• Strong background in platform engineering, DevOps, and system architecture