Engineering Manager - Orchestration and Automation

We're Celonis, the global leader in Process Intelligence technology and one of the world's fastest-growing SaaS firms. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock productivity by placing AI, data and intelligence at the core of business processes - and for that, we need your help. Care to join us? The Team As part of our scaling Orchestration Automation team, you'll have a huge impact on helping teams and engineers build and operate resilient, reliable and scalable systems. You'll have ownership over our product's health, ensuring end-to-end availability and peak performance, contributing to software development and maintenance. You’ll get to sharpen your skills on the latest tech stack in the areas of Java, Go, TypeScript, DevOps tooling, CICD, Containerization, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure as code. Interacting with your engineering team and the Platform and SRE organization in Celonis. The Role As an Engineering Manager, you’re responsible for a team of up to 6 engineers working in the space of Orchestration Automation. You’ll support them in the delivery of robust solutions - across the entire stack, from backend to frontend, from platform to product. You will be working in a strong cross-functional team with support from product, UX, and engineering to enhance our orchestration automation capabilities, and shaping the future with agentic composable enterprise. You will be hands-on and the expectation is that you contribute to the features owned by the team and drive a path to growing the skills and capabilities of the team. Key Responsibilities Team management for up to 12 individual contributors Guide and enhance the professional growth of engineers, including those at the staff and senior staff level, while simultaneously managing their performance. Collaborate extensively with leadership, cross-functional stakeholders and fellow engineering teams, to guarantee the creation and implementation of influential product functionalities. Partner with members of Product, Platform, SRE and QE to deliver end-to-end solutions with the highest level of availability reliability Shape the team’s roadmap along with product management, the workstreams and the team internal discovery delivery processes. Guide a technical roadmap to ensure our systems are up to the most modern standards and best practices Contribute to development either in a frontend, backend or platform responsibility. Qualifications Minimum 3 years experience in an Engineering Manager or technical leadership role, guiding both projects and teams. Advanced technical expertise, equivalent to staff engineer level in software engineering. Proven experience with technologies such as Java Sprint Boot, Angular, Microfrontend architecture, Postgres, and microservices architecture. Excellent English communication skills for effective collaboration with global teams across various functions. Familiarity with agile methodologies for daily team organization. Capable of providing leadership and making key decisions to drive strategic direction. Skilled in resolving technical conflicts and promoting a positive escalation environment. Willing to actively support the team through hands-on assistance. What Celonis Can Offer You: Pioneer Innovation: Work with the leading, award-winning process mining technology, shaping the future of business. Accelerate Your Growth: Benefit from clear career paths, internal mobility, a dedicated learning program, and mentorship opportunities. Receive Exceptional Benefits: Including generous PTO, hybrid working options, company equity (RSUs), comprehensive benefits, extensive parental leave, dedicated volunteer days, and much more . Interns and working students explore your benefits here . Prioritize Your Well-being: Access to resources such as gym subsidies, counseling, and well-being programs. Connect and Belong: Find community and support through dedicated inclusion and belonging programs. Make ... (truncated, view full listing at source)