Are you a hardworking Engineering Technology Manager looking for an extraordinary opportunity? This could be a tremendous role to explore! This is a
hybrid workstyle role working in either our Ft. Washington, PA or downtown Chicago IL office two to three days a week.
Aon is in the business of better decisions. At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.
What the day will look like At Aon, the Engineering Manager acts as the main point of contact for assigned technology services across the organization. You will lead a team of engineers and vendors, guiding both day-to-day delivery and long-term strategy! In this role, you'll balance hands-on technical leadership with facilitation and coordination-staying close to the work through design and code reviews, while also driving alignment between teams and collaborators.
Manage the health and evolution of legacy systems, oversee migrations to modern platforms, and ensure smooth transitions by maintaining up-to-date plans, dependencies, and change calendars. Partnering with Product Owners and business colleagues, you'll define roadmaps, track progress, and communicate status, risks, and options in a clear and actionable way.
This position requires you to maintain stability for in-scope applications, run efficient change and release processes, and uphold compliance in regulated environments. You'll also drive continuous improvement in testing, observability, and security, ensuring your team delivers reliable, high-quality solutions that support business goals.
Responsibilities: - Own a transition roadmap: sequence migrations, define coexistence, cutover/rollback, and decommission.
- Lead fit/gap of legacy capabilities to target platforms; document interface contracts and handoffs.
- Enforce versioning and contract testing with consuming and owning teams to protect compatibility.
- Manage data moves: mapping, backfills, reconciliation, retention/archival, legal holds.
- Bake NFRs into DoD: p95/p99 latency, availability, throughput; track adoption and DORA.
- Define delivery governance: working agreements, stage gates, CAB material, change calendar discipline.
- Maintain ADRs and migration guides; publish a clear decommission checklist (traffic cut, DNS, credentials, archives, CMDB).
- Translate outcomes to a quarterly plan: scope, estimates, sequencing, and dependency management.
- Align on objectives and key results/key performance indicators with Product and platform owners, keep execution tied to measurable results.
Skills and experience that will lead to success. - 7+ years in software engineering; 2+ years managing delivery in a matrixed, vendor-heavy environment.
- Strong in .NET 8 services and one modern web stack (React/TypeScript preferred)
- Legacy familiarity: COTS operations, Windows/IIS, batch jobs, file transfers (SFTP/EDI), schedulers; awareness of RPG/COBOL/iSeries flows and data files.
- Azure: AKS/containers, Azure SQL, Cosmos/Storage, App Gateway/Front Door, Key Vault; App Insights for APM.
- CI/CD in Azure DevOps (YAML) with test gates, SAST/DAST, artifact promotion, approvals as code.
- Testing depth: unit/integration, UI/E2E, contract and performance testing.
- Facilitation strength: influence without authority, conflict resolution, decision framing, and concise executive communication.
- Project delivery and technical oversight-follow SDLC for application enhancements/projects ensuring code quality architectural consistency using best practices.
- Deep understanding of agile principles and scrum methodology
- Proven use of RACI/RAID, dependency boards, change control, and cross-team cutovers.
- Observability: logs, metrics, traces, SLOs/error budgets, burn-rate alerts; proven incident leadership.
- Security: OAuth/OIDC, least-privilege, dependency scanning, secrets management, threat modeling.
- Data/integration: relational modeling, indexing, query plans, async messaging, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers.
- Responsible for following the standards for internal and external compliance of products and services to licensing, security, and audit framework.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
Preferred IaC (
Bicep/Terraform ), policy as code, and cost monitoring.
Experience sunsetting monolith modules with strangler patterns and coexistence plans.
Accessibility awareness (WCAG 2.1 AA) for any web surfaces we continue to operate.
Exposure to portfolio practices (objectives and key results, quarterly planning, benefits tracking, TCO/"Bill of IT")
Experience working in large scale global corporate environments
How we support our colleagues In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage an inclusive workforce. Plus, our agile environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions for our colleagues as well.
Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.
Aon values an innovative and inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. People with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive workplace. If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. You can request accommodations by emailing us at or your recruiter. We will work with you to meet your needs and ensure a fair and equitable experience.
For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.
Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Pay Transparency Laws: The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $130k-$150k annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location.
A summary of all the benefits offered for this position: Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon's discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
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