Top Senior Engineering Manager Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead a 5-6 person engineering team to build a cloud-native, AI-driven Coordination of Benefits product. Own architecture, roadmap, production releases, hiring, coaching, and engineering standards. Collaborate with product, ML, UX, QA, and operations to design rules engines, claims pipelines, and scalable secure systems for regulated healthcare data.

Lead and grow distributed database-internals engineering teams owning TimescaleDB. Set technical roadmaps, prioritize work with Product, collaborate with Platform, handle customer escalations, mentor engineers, and drive delivery of reliable, high-performance database systems.

Lead and grow a platform and infrastructure engineering team (Infrastructure/SQL reliability, Developer Experience, or Tooling). Hire, mentor, and manage delivery of quarterly roadmaps; remain technically engaged in design and code reviews; partner with product, SRE, and security to drive reliability, observability, CI/CD, and platform strategy. Own toolchain, reliability goals, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Lead and grow a distributed software engineering team building Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure. Define architecture, drive design reviews, ensure security, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and operations at scale. Guide implementation, incident response, and continuous improvement while coaching engineers and aligning stakeholders across Azure product teams.

Lead a small senior team building and operating Docker Build Cloud and Hub build systems, driving delivery of hardened, verifiable build infrastructure. Own roadmap execution, operational reliability and on-call, technical direction alongside engineers, hiring and developing staff, and raising security hygiene across CI/CD, image hardening, and supply-chain provenance for regulated customers.

Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for the Akamai Compute integration layer. Define strategy and roadmap for customer-facing APIs and backend orchestration, drive architecture shifts to container orchestration and modular designs, improve SDLC, reliability, observability, and security, and partner with product, SRE, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure platform services.

Lead and grow a software engineering team to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed cloud services that automate infrastructure maintenance, improve reliability, and support GPU-based AI platforms. Drive technical vision, partner across engineering and operations, modernize platforms, and use data-driven decisions to improve availability, performance, and operational efficiency at global scale.

Lead engineering team for solar and storage projects, oversee design execution, manage technical evaluations, and provide construction support.

Lead an engineering product team building account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management platforms. Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance, manage schedules and vendors, mentor engineers, drive DevOps and observability practices, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and own operational readiness and incident escalation. Hands-on data engineering experience with AWS, Python, Lambda, and Postgres is valued.

Lead multi-site industrial engineering strategy and continuous improvement across distribution and contract packaging. Manage senior IE team, drive automation and ROI analyses, partner with customers and IT/integrators, establish KPIs and governance, support bid/solutioning, and ensure standardized, safe, efficient operations.

Lead and develop an endpoint engineering team managing Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. Oversee device configuration, Intune and Configuration Manager operations, patching, vulnerability remediation, compliance reporting, and Tier III incident response. Partner with cybersecurity, service desk, DEX, and infrastructure to improve endpoint reliability, security, and user experience while driving modernization, automation, and audit-ready operational controls in a regulated banking environment.

Lead and grow a payments engineering team responsible for payment platforms, integrations, tokenization, fraud signals, and reconciliation. Own delivery, production stability, on-call, PCI DSS compliance, vendor relationships, budget, and cross-functional coordination. Drive reliability, incident response, roadmap execution, and measurable improvements in transaction success, latency, and error budgets.

Lead and grow a multidisciplinary Platform team (DevOps, AppSec, SRE, FinOps) to build reliable, secure, and cost-effective shared systems. Set technical strategy and roadmap, manage technical debt, drive platform delivery, lead incident response, improve observability and FinOps visibility, and coach emerging engineering leaders to raise standards across the organization.

Lead and set technical direction for a cross-functional engineering group owning billing, accounting, membership eligibility, and enrollment systems. Hire, mentor, and scale engineering managers and engineers; define roadmaps, drive cross-functional alignment, and balance technical investments with rapid product delivery while improving systems, architecture, and engineering processes.

Manage a team of engineers building Docker's runtime for AI workloads, oversee technical direction, and ensure operational excellence in cross-platform environments.

Lead a team responsible for payments and finance development, focusing on API integrations, security compliance, and team productivity improvements.

Lead and mentor a distributed team building a realtime, cross-platform renderer. Drive delivery, technical strategy, and engineering practices; collaborate with R&D, product, and integrations to turn neural-rendering research into production-quality, high-performance rendering across web, mobile, desktop, and headset platforms.

The Engineering Manager will lead teams in developing and managing Blackbaud's Data & AI platform, focusing on scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

Lead North America execution of AI-first SDLC transformation and quality platforms for a multi-tenant SaaS identity product. Define system validation and quality platform strategy, enable agentic quality workflows, drive shift-left developer-owned testing, own CI/CD quality gates and telemetry, improve production readiness and release confidence, and hire and coach senior technical contributors while partnering across Dev, SRE, DevTools, Product, and AI teams.

Lead and mentor engineering teams in developing a SaaS solution for dental practice management, focusing on system architecture, code quality, and integrating AI tools.

Lead and grow an engineering team building airgapped, UDS-compatible, cloud-native software. Own delivery of scalable, secure products, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and coordinate with Product, Growth, and Delivery to meet customer and roadmap objectives.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to develop and maintain software solutions, collaborate with various teams, and implement CI/CD practices. They will also mentor engineers and influence organizational technology strategies.

Lead and mentor the Activations engineering team to deliver integrations and workflows that get new banking clients to production. Balance hands-on coding, system design, code reviews, and product partnership while ensuring reliability, scalability, and high-quality backend services and APIs.

Lead and manage a team developing the Aerospike Cloud Platform, focusing on architecture, execution, and fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

Lead a cross-functional agile engineering team while remaining hands-on in architecture and coding. Mentor engineers, coordinate with Product and QA, improve delivery practices, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cloud-based systems, and drive modernization and engineering standards.