Senior Manager Software Engineering
Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.
We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.
Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com .
Job Summary
Acuity is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to join the Digital Center of Excellence (DCoE) in Cork and lead an engineering team responsible for building and operating the Azure and Databricks foundation used by data engineering, analytics, and AI teams.
The role combines people leadership, technical direction, delivery accountability, and operational ownership. The successful candidate will build a high-performing team, develop engineering talent, establish clear delivery practices, and ensure the platform is secure, reliable, observable, scalable, and cost-conscious across development, test, and production environments
Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)
People Leadership & Team Development
Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, creating clear expectations for performance, ownership, collaboration, and technical quality.
Conduct regular one-to-ones, provide timely feedback, support career development, and create individual growth plans aligned to business and engineering needs.
Build an inclusive, accountable team culture where people raise risks early, learn from incidents, share knowledge, and continuously improve.
Own workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, role clarity, succession planning, and capability development for the team.
Recognize strong performance, address performance concerns constructively, and support engineers in achieving their full potential.
Engineering Leadership & Technical Direction
Set the engineering direction for Databricks and Azure Data Lake platform capabilities in partnership with architecture, security, data engineering, analytics, and AI teams.
Ensure the team establishes and follows supported engineering patterns for workspace configuration, compute, Unity Catalog, storage integration, environment management, and lakehouse workloads.
Maintain a strong technical understanding of the platform, challenge design decisions where appropriate, and help the team resolve complex engineering and operational issues.
Drive sound engineering practices across architecture, code quality, testing, documentation, security, maintainability, and technical debt management.
Balance near-term delivery commitments with longer-term platform sustainability, standardization, and simplification.
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