Manager, Software Engineering (BI, Reporting & Visualization)

Company Overview

With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.-based private software company in the world. And we're only getting started. Ready to bring your bold ideas and collaborative mindset to an organization that still has so much more to build and achieve? Read on.

At UKG, you get more than just a job. You get to work with purpose. Our team of U Krewers are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through our award-winning HR technology built for all.

Here, we know that you're more than your work. That's why our benefits help you thrive personally and professionally, from wellness programs and tuition reimbursement to U Choose - a customizable expense reimbursement program that can be used for more than 200+ needs that best suit you and your family, from student loan repayment, to childcare, to pet insurance. Our inclusive culture, active and engaged employee resource groups, and caring leaders value every voice and support you in doing the best work of your career. If you're passionate about our purpose - people -then we can't wait to support whatever gives you purpose. We're united by purpose, inspired by you.

About the Team:

We are seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. As a manager, you will lead a team of talented engineers, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of ownership, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact complex projects. You will be responsible for guiding technical decisions, managing team performance, and aligning engineering efforts with business goals.

About the Role:

Technical Leadership:

• Experience in Data and analytics domain with hand on experience with tools like looker, cognos and other analytics tools
• Provide technical leadership and direction for major projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
• You are hands-on with code and can jump in to help the team. You maintain high technical bar, closely involved in design and architecture decisions, code reviews, helping your engineers to optimize their code, maintaining high standards of code quality.
• Ensure that high standards of performance, scalability, and reliability are maintained when architecting, designing, and developing complex software systems and applications.
• Ensure accountability for the team's technical decisions and enforce engineering best practices (e.g., documentation, automation, code management, security principles, leverage CoPilot).
• Play a pivotal role in the R.I.D.E. (Review, Inspect, Decide, Execute) framework.
• Understand CI/CD pipelines from build, test, to deploy phases.

Team Management:

• Foster a culture of service ownership and enhance team engagement.
• Drive succession planning and engineering efficiency, focusing on quality and developer experience through data-driven approaches.
• Promote a growth mindset, understanding and driving organizational change.
• Actively seek opportunities for team growth and cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver high-impact software projects on time and within budget.
• Actively seek opportunities for the team to grow within and across the organization.
• Works and guides the team on how to operate in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production.

Coaching and Development:

• Grow and develop the team technically and with a quality mindset, providing strong and actionable feedback.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Execution Excellence:

• Manage team workload and capacity, setting priorities and managing risks and tradeoffs.
• Align team efforts with the strategic direction of the company, understanding the big picture and business needs.
• Demonstrate engineering excellence and service ownership, including cost and quality management of services, and effective production management.
• Collaborate effectively with stakeholders across Product, TPM, Security, Cloud, and other teams.
• Make deployment decisions with appropriate risk mitigation.

About You:
Basic Qualifications:

• BI-Specific Technical & Execution Expertise:
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role managing teams focused on Business Intelligence, data warehousing, or data analytics
  • Extensive hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of complex, large-scale enterprise BI solutions, including data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing, and advanced data visualization
  • Deep understanding of data governance, data quality, and data security principles and experience implementing them within BI solutions.
  • Experience with modern BI platforms and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik, Sisense, or similar) and the underlying data architectures that support them
  • Proficiency with cloud-based data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and experience building BI applications on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
  • Solid understanding of integrating internal or external enterprise systems via APIs, events, or other integration implementations to source data for BI purposes.
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) in the context of deploying BI components or data pipelines
• Team Leadership & Development:
  • Proven experience attracting, hiring, mentoring, retaining, and leading high-performance teams of BI engineers and data professionals (i.e., FTEs, not contractors) in a fast-paced, dynamic product development environment.
  • Ability to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the BI engineering team.
• Operational Excellence & Delivery:

• • Experience driving agile development methodologies and best practices for BI development lifecycles, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
  • Strong project management skills with a track record of successfully delivering complex BI projects on time and within budget.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including customers and executive leadership.

Where we're going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

Equal Opportunity Employer

UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.

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The pay range for this position is $126,300 to $181,550, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. This position is also eligible for a short-term incentive and a long-term incentive as part of total compensation. Information about UKG's comprehensive benefits can be reviewed on our careers site at