# Senior Engineering Manager

**Company**: Bayer
**Location**: Chicago, IL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $127k-191k
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Healthcare
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152051

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## Description

At Bayer, we're visionaries driven to solve the world's toughest challenges. As a Senior Engineering Manager at Digital Farming Solutions (DFS), you'll lead engineering outcomes across multiple teams or complex delivery areas, ensuring high-quality results for digital agriculture platforms.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

- Drive results and execution across multiple engineering teams or a major capability area

- Translate strategy, priorities, and roadmaps into clear, executable plans

- Ensure commitments are met through proactive risk management and course correction

- Drive continuous improvement in quality, reliability, and operational excellence

- Lead, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and senior engineers

- Partner closely with Product, Design, Architecture, and other technical leaders

Requirements:

- 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a formal people management capacity

- Management scope: proven experience managing multiple engineering teams or managing other Engineering Managers/Team Leads

- Technical foundation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

- Cloud proficiency: hands-on experience operating and deploying production workloads on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda)

- Agile mastery: strong experience leading teams within a standard Agile/Scrum framework

- DevOps fundamentals: demonstrated ability to manage and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows

Preferred skills:

- Advanced knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK

- Experience overseeing the migration from monolithic architectures to microservices or serverless environments

- Ability to use DORA metrics to drive operational improvements

- Familiarity with modern monitoring and observability stacks such as Datadog, New Relic, or AWS CloudWatch

Salary: approximately $127k-191k per year, with additional compensation including a bonus or incentive program, health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- people management
- AWS
- Agile
- DevOps
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- AWS CDK
- DORA metrics
- Datadog
- New Relic
- AWS CloudWatch

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