Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bellese is a mission-driven Digital Services Company committed to pioneering innovative technology solutions in civic healthcare. The Senior Engineering Manager leads delivery, engineering quality, and team performance across multiple development teams, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant solutions in a high-stakes environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leads
- Set clear expectations and hold teams accountable to delivery outcomes
- Drive performance management, coaching, and career development
- Build and retain high-performing teams with strong ownership culture
- Ensure teams operate with autonomy while maintaining alignment
- Own end-to-end delivery across design, development, testing, and operations
- Ensure systems meet requirements for scalability, reliability, and security
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD and DevSecOps
- Establish strong engineering standards for code quality, testing, and observability
- Improve delivery predictability through metrics, planning rigor, and dependency management
- Oversee cloud-native architectures, with focus on AWS-based systems and data platforms
- Drive execution within Agile and SAFe frameworks across multiple teams
- Manage cross-team dependencies and reduce delivery risk
- Ensure compliance with CMS security and regulatory requirements
- Partner with ISSO and security teams to maintain zero high or critical findings
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Own relationships with program leadership and external stakeholders
- Translate technical decisions into clear business impact
- Provide proactive communication on risks, tradeoffs, and progress
- Align engineering execution with legislative and contractual priorities
- Contribute to Bellese’s engineering strategy, hiring plans, and org design
- Support standardization engineering practices across teams
- Lead initiatives such as Communities of Practice and knowledge sharing
- Drive continuous improvement across tooling, processes, and team structure
- Contribute to business development efforts, including proposal support and client-facing technical conversations
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years in engineering management roles
- Experience leading multiple Agile teams in complex environments
- Strong experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS
- Experience delivering data-intensive systems and pipelines at scale
- Deep understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps, and modern engineering practices
- Proven ability to improve delivery performance and team effectiveness
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience operating in regulated environments or government programs
- Experience with CMS or federal healthcare programs
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards such as HL7 FHIR
- Experience with Databricks, large-scale data processing, or analytics platforms
- Experience with security compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP or NIST
- Experience managing distributed teams
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (Section 508)
Benefits
- Remote First, Remote Only Culture
- Four weeks paid time off yearly (prorated based on start date for the first year)
- 10 paid floating company holidays
- Flexible schedule
- Work from home setup including a Macbook
- Collaborative, learning environment
- Medical, dental, and company-paid vision insurance
- Optional HSA account with some medical plans and a company contribution
- Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance coverages
- Company paid short and long term life insurance
- Optional critical illness and accident insurance
- 401K plan with 3% safe harbor contribution
- Wellness resources and virtual care
- Perks Plus employee discounts
Company Overview
For more than 15 years, Bellese has worked at the intersection of technology and public health, partnering with the organizations responsible for some of the largest healthcare systems in the country. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://bellese.io/.