Cengage Group
Technology Lead/Sr Manager, Software Engineering
🇺🇸 Hybrid - MI
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $117K - $152K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ June 18th, 2025
CI/CD
Docker
Kanban
Edtech.com's Summary
Cengage Group is hiring a Technology Lead/Sr Manager, Software Engineering to lead technology teams within the Cengage Work business unit. The role involves managing remote engineering teams, driving agile product development, partnering across product and design teams, and focusing on customer-centric solutions to innovate and improve educational technology platforms.
Highlights
- Lead software development teams for ed2go, Ready to Hire, Infosec, and Milady platforms.
- Adopt agile methodologies to drive iterative development and rapid time-to-market.
- Design and implement scalable, secure, high-availability enterprise software using cloud-native technologies.
- Required expertise in AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience modernizing monolithic architectures and integrating APIs for hybrid cloud strategies.
- Manage a global workforce across different time zones with strong leadership skills.
- Use agile tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps for delivery and business alignment.
- Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of leadership experience.
- Compensation base pay range: $117,000 - $152,000 USD annually.
- Work closely with product, design, and customers to analyze data and drive continuous product improvements.
Technology Lead/Sr Manager, Software Engineering Full Description
Technology Lead/Sr Manager, Software Engineering
Michigan, USA
Full time
We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage Group, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Our culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery
Our business is driven by our strong culture, and we know that creating an inclusive workplace is absolutely essential to the success of our company and our learners, as well as our individual well-being. We recognize the value of diverse perspectives in everything we do, and strive to ensure employees of all levels and backgrounds feel empowered to voice their ideas and bring their authentic selves to work. We achieve these priorities through programs, benefits, and initiatives that are integrated into the fabric of how we work every day. To learn more, please see https://www.cengagegroup.com/about/inclusion-and-belonging/.
What you'll do here:
As an Engineering Manager / Technology Lead in our Product Technology and Innovation organization, you are responsible for the delivery of innovative, market leading platforms and products that continue to improve the education technology industry. Specifically, you will lead technology teams in our Cengage Work business unit which includes our ed2go, Ready to Hire, Infosec, and Milady platforms. As a successful technology leader you will build and lead remote software engineering organizations using agile principles to architect and deliver high availability enterprise software. You will partner closely with product and design teams and lead through data driven insights. With an eye toward customer centric focus, you will be obsessing about customer outcomes in every decision made, and drive measurable improvements in user engagement.
As the Engineering Manager, you will divide time, effort and attention between team management responsibilities and product development responsibilities - leading software development teams for application development and platform support. This is a multi-functional and Agile team environment. You will work jointly with other technology and product leads to provide direction and leadership to the Agile teams. Managers must be comfortable with situational leadership, able to function equally well as a leader or as a team member respecting the team opinion.
- Adopt agile methodologies and the principles of a customer centric product model to drive iterative development, continuous improvement, and rapid time-to-market. Work closely with engineering teams to define user stories, prioritize backlog items, and ensure timely and high-quality product releases.
- Communicate clearly across product teams, technology teams, interface designers and domain authorities in different parts of the organization.
- Meet with product partners, customers and other technologists to understand customers’ learning and technological needs; provide guidance on technology solution options.
- Monitor product performance, analyze performance data, and gather user feedback to continuously iterate and improve the product. Conduct post-release evaluations, retrospectives, and A/B testing to inform future product enhancements and strategic decision-making.
- Design, architect, and implement new features and functionality with the expectation that you will own and drive the development using an iterative methodology and deliver products that scale to support our millions of customers.
- Responsible for ensuring our customers enjoy a consistently reliable and high-performing experience with our platforms, available 24/7.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and integrate relevant advancements into our product roadmaps.
- Cultivate a high-performance, transparent culture of continuous improvement focused on accountability and results.
Skills you'll need here:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and recent relevant work experience required
- 5+ years of leadership experience, including developing technology strategies and driving innovation
- Experience building, developing, motivating and leading a global workforce of employees and contractors across different time zones
- Proven experience in modernizing monolithic architectures, implementing hybrid cloud strategies, and crafting APIs to bridge legacy systems with cloud-native platforms.
- Expertise in AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation), cloud-native development (Kubernetes, Docker, microservices), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK).
- Demonstrated ability to craft and build scalable, secure, high-availability enterprise systems, using CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks for global user bases.
- Skilled in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), fostering high-performing engineering teams, and using tools like Jira or Azure DevOps to ensure efficient delivery and alignment with business priorities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Cengage Group is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, and any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.
Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com or at +1 (617) 289-7917.
About Cengage Group
Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Compensation
At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.$117,000.00 - $152,000.00 USD
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