The Senior Engineering Manager leads engineering teams, overseeing technical direction, team development, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration while ensuring high-quality product delivery.
About Us:
Versana is an industry-backed fintech on a mission to make the syndicated loan market better. By digitally capturing agent banks’ data on a real-time basis, Versana provides unprecedented transparency into loan level details and portfolio positions, bringing efficiency and velocity to the entire market. Through our platform, participants can rest assured they are accessing the loan market’s most credible source of deal information.
About You:
The Senior Engineering Manager is a strategic and operational leader responsible for driving high-performing engineering teams, enabling technical excellence, and delivering high-impact products and platforms. This role partners closely with Product, Architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders to define technical strategy, mature engineering practices, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate is both a strong people manager and a seasoned technologist who can elevate engineering capabilities across the organization.
Responsiblilities:
People Leadership & Team Development
· Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and individual contributors across multiple teams.
· Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
· Drive career growth frameworks, performance management, and succession planning.
· Foster an inclusive, high-trust environment that supports well-being and sustained productivity.
Technical Leadership & Execution
· Provide strategic technical direction in partnership with architecture and product leadership.
· Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and high-quality systems aligned with long-term business goals.
· Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, observability, automation, and DevOps maturity.
· Lead efforts to modernize technology, simplify architecture, and reduce technical debt.
Operational Excellence
· Establish and monitor KPIs for engineering performance, quality, and reliability.
· Lead continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization.
· Optimize team structures, resource allocations, and processes for scale.
· Oversee vendor or contract engineering relationships when relevant.
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration
· Act as a senior partner to Product, Design, Data, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
· Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly to executive leadership.
· Ensure engineering alignment with organizational goals and compliance requirements.
Required Qualifications:
· 8+ years of engineering experience with 3–5 years leading managers or senior technical leads.
· Proven track record scaling engineering teams and delivering complex, high-impact software systems.
· Strong technical foundation in software architecture, cloud technologies, and modern development practices.
· Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with strategic leadership.
· Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
· Experience in a matrix organization with both direct and dotted-line structures.
· Background working in Agile environments—Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models.
· Familiarity with platform engineering, developer experience tooling, or productivity enablement.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Top Skills
Cloud Technologies
DevOps
Software Architecture
Versana New York, New York, USA Office
530 Seventh Avenue, Suite 405, New York, New York, United States, 10018
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