Senior Group Engineering Manager

Role Overview: As a Group Engineering Manager for Deloitte's Tax business, you will shape and communicate a strategic vision for modern software engineering. You will provide hands-on leadership across multiple high-impact products, ensuring our solutions are innovative, effective, and aligned with business goals. You will develop and execute a forward-looking technology roadmap, driving simplification, scalability, and efficiency. Leveraging your deep expertise in software engineering-including application and data integration, modern frameworks, and diverse technologies-you will guide teams in delivering robust, high-quality solutions. As a role model and mentor, you will foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration. Your ability to inspire and develop engineering talent, while partnering with cross-functional teams, will be essential to our ongoing success and the value we deliver to Deloitte's business.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Vision and Alignment: Accountable for defining, communicating, and continuously refining a compelling engineering vision that translates business objectives into actionable strategies. Ensure engineering teams are aligned and engaged, collaborating closely with product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security teams. Leverage technical artifacts and feedback loops to illustrate and evolve the vision.

Advocacy and Technology Roadmap: Champion the integrated engineering strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring organizational awareness of objectives, KPIs, maturity, and compliance. Promote a culture of reuse, quality, and speed to maximize outcomes. Actively engage and energize teams around the engineering vision and its alignment with business and technology goals.

Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Define and drive achievement of engineering KPIs, including system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability. Maintain and evolve engineering dashboards (planning, code quality, CI/CD, performance, security, operations). Contribute hands-on to design and code, mentor engineers, and resolve technical challenges. Inspire teams to adopt new technologies and best practices, fostering a passion for engineering excellence.

Capability Evolution and Development: Being an engineering expert, mentor and develop full-stack engineering talent in modern practices such as frontend, microservices, cloud-native design, AI/ML/GenAI, data engineering, DevSecOps, and advanced deployment techniques like, Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time, enabling A/B testing approaches. Lead by example through thought leadership-speaking at conferences, publishing, R&D, or collaborating with academia. Cultivate a growth mindset and modern engineering behaviors across the team.

Iterative Value Delivery: Embrace an iterative and incremental product development, favoring action, prioritizing rapid learning, and adaptation over extensive upfront planning. Apply leaning-forward approach and empirical methods to navigate complexity, ensuring each iteration delivers value and aligns with customer and business needs.

Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Maintain a relentless focus on solving the most critical customer challenges. Align technical solutions with business outcomes, minimize unnecessary complexity, and drive teams toward high performance through continuous learning and collaborative execution.

Tech/Quality Risk Management: Establish and evolve engineering standards, coding practices, and quality benchmarks to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring operational excellence and resilience.

Influential Communication: Influence, persuade, and drive decision-making processes. Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. Craft clear, structured arguments and technical trade-offs, supported by evidence.

Organizational Engagement and Collaboration: Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from team members to middle management to executives. Build collaborative and constructive relationships, co-creating and driving momentum and value across multiple organizational levels.

The team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.

Key Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required. Enterprise experience is the most relevant factor.
• Excellent software engineering and product architecture/design foundation with deep understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/ER/DFD diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, code instrumentation, and messaging patterns (e.g., routing, transformation, construction, channel, endpoint, adapter, sequencing).
• 20+ years of proven experience with programming languages, technologies, and frameworks such as Python, C#, Java, Node.js, Golang, .NET Core, XML/JSON, REST/SOAP/GraphQL, SQL/NoSQL, SSO/MFA, and unit testing frameworks.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native integration services on one or more hyper-scalers like Azure, AWS, GCP (e.g., API Gateways, Message Brokers, Queuing Services, Workflow Automation & Orchestration, ETL/ELT, Event Streaming, Real-Time Data Processing, Service Mesh).
• 7+ years of experience with defining and driving engineering KPIs, implementing engineering maturity models, and driving continuous improvement.
• 5+ years of experience with AI/ML; experience with the latest GenAI models is preferred.
• Deep understanding of methodologies and tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, CAST, etc., to deliver high-quality products rapidly.
• Proven ability to lead organizational transformation and drive adoption of modern engineering practices at scale, including cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and developing diverse engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance requirements in enterprise software engineering.
• Demonstrated experience aligning engineering initiatives with business and customer value, delivering measurable outcomes in agile environments.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Ability to travel 0-20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Pega software
  
  

How You will Grow: At Deloitte, our professional development plans focus on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day and excel in everything they do.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $144,300 to $265,600.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

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