We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Engineering Manager to lead engineering teams building the Trilon Digital Platform and its digital products.
This role is responsible for driving engineering execution, delivering high-quality software, and developing a strong, collaborative engineering team. You will work closely with Product Management, Platform Architecture, Data, and IT to translate business priorities into reliable, scalable solutions.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical experience with people leadership and a practical, delivery-oriented mindset. We need someone who can lead teams, remove obstacles, make sound technical decisions, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineering Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Product Delivery: Own engineering execution across assigned digital products and platform capabilities, ensuring predictable delivery, quality, and alignment with product priorities.
- Technical Direction: Partner with the Platform Architect and Data Architect to translate architectural direction into practical engineering solutions and maintain technical consistency.
- Hands-On Engineering: Stay close to implementation through design reviews, code reviews, technical problem-solving, and support for complex engineering challenges.
- Engineering Excellence: Establish and improve engineering practices, including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, observability, and secure development.
- Platform & Product Development: Balance the delivery of business-facing digital products with the development of reusable platform services and shared capabilities.
- Planning & Execution: Lead technical planning, estimation, resource allocation, dependency management, and delivery commitments in partnership with Product Management.
- Reliability & Operations: Ensure production readiness, system reliability, performance, incident response, and ongoing improvement of deployed applications.
- Team Development: Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, mentoring, and career development for engineers.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, Data, Architecture, IT, and business stakeholders to solve problems and deliver measurable business value.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, reduce technical debt, simplify processes, and accelerate delivery.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale SaaS products, cloud-native applications, or digital platforms.
- Strong technical background in modern software development, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud technologies.
- Experience leading cross-functional distributed engineering teams in an Agile product development environment.
- Solid understanding of software architecture, CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, security, and production operations.
- Experience building shared enterprise platforms, reusable services, or internal developer platforms.
- Experience scaling engineering teams and establishing engineering processes in growing organizations.
- Experience building shared enterprise platforms, reusable services, or internal developer platforms.
About Trilon
Trilon was formed with the vision of building the next Top 20 infrastructure consulting firm in North America by bringing together some of the nation’s best infrastructure consulting firms, focused on delivering practical and sustainable infrastructure solutions. Trilon is backed by Alpine Investors, a PeopleFirst Private Equity Firm. Trilon currently comprises 5,500+ staff across the US. For more information, visit www.trilon.com.
Pay TransparencyThe base salary range for this role is indicated in the posting. This range reflects the company’s good faith estimate of the compensation for this position at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, internal equity, and geographic location.
Salary: 145000 - 185000 USD per year
