At Adaptive, we’re Powering the Age of Immune Medicine. Our goal is to harness the power of the adaptive immune system to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treated. As an Adapter, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. With Adaptive, you’ll create a career highlight through collaboration with bright, curious colleagues working at the apex of innovation and application. It’s time for your next chapter. Discover your story with Adaptive. Position Overview The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads the strategy, design, development, deployment, and support of enterprise automation solutions that improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and enhance business outcomes across Adaptive. This role is responsible for building and leading a high-performing automation engineering team while establishing governance, standards, and best practices for automation development and operations. Leaders at Adaptive demonstrate behaviors consistent with Adaptive’s Core Values and Leadership Principles. Critical functions of your role include helping establish individual team member goals, aligning those individual goals with broader team objectives, and ensuring those objectives drive the achievement of company goals. Providing thoughtful coaching and consistent feedback to your team members will drive performance excellence and accountability, as well as support your team members’ growth and development. Leaders at Adaptive create an environment of belonging, respect, and open and honest communication every day. Duties and Responsibilities Leadership & Team Development - Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing Business Process Automation engineering team - Establish team objectives, success metrics, and development plans aligned with company goals - Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, customer focus, and continuous improvement - Manage hiring, performance management, succession planning, and career development activities - Establish engineering standards, delivery processes, and operational best practices Automation Strategy & Digital Transformation - Develop and execute an enterprise-wide automation strategy aligned with business priorities - Identify, evaluate, and prioritize high-value automation opportunities across departments - Create and maintain a multi-year automation roadmap - Partner with business and technology leaders to drive digital transformation initiatives - Evaluate emerging automation and AI technologies and recommend solutions that deliver business value Solution Delivery - Lead all phases of automation development including process discovery, solution design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support - Ensure automation solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, reusable, and compliant with enterprise standards - Oversee end-to-end delivery of automation projects using UiPath and related platforms - Drive continuous optimization and enhancement of existing automation solutions - Participate in release planning, deployment activities, and platform lifecycle management Business Partnership - Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational processes and identify automation opportunities - Facilitate process discovery and process improvement workshops - Translate business requirements into scalable automation solutions - Communicate project status, risks, outcomes, and ROI to senior leadership - Collaborate closely with IT, Security, Compliance, and business teams to ensure successful adoption Governance & Operational Excellence - Establish and maintain automation governance frameworks, standards, and development lifecycle processes - Define coding standards, documentation requirements, testing practices, and code review procedures - Develop reusable automation components, frameworks, and accelerators - Ensure compliance with security, audit, privacy, and regulatory requirements - Manage platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, licensing, environment management, and platform health monitoring AI & Intelligent Automation - Evaluate and implement AI capabilities that enhance business process automation - Integrate technologies such as Document Understanding, OCR, generative AI, and machine learning into automation workflows - Identify opportunities to evolve from task automation to intelligent process automation - Stay current on emerging AI and automation technologies and assess their applicability to Adaptive's business needs Qualifications Required - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or related field with 10+ years of experience in software engineering, automation engineering, enterprise applications, or related technical disciplines, including leadership experience - Experience building and leading technical engineering teams - Hands-on experience with enterprise automation platforms such as UiPath, Power Automate, Automation Anywhere, or similar technologies - Experience delivering large-scale automation initiatives from strategy through production support - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), automation architecture, governance, and operational best practices - Experience with programming languages such as Python, C#, Java, or similar - Experience integrating enterprise systems through APIs, web services, and modern integration frameworks - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences - Experience operating within cross-functional environments and partnering with business leaders to drive change Preferred - UiPath certifications and experience managing enterprise UiPath environments - Experience with intelligent automation, AI/ML technologies, OCR, and generative AI solutions - Experience establishing or leading an Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) - Experience supporting highly regulated environments with strong security and compliance requirements - Experience with cloud-based services, modern architecture patterns, and enterprise platforms Working Conditions - Office environment - Travel as required, up to 10% Compensation Salary Range: $163,100 - $244,700 Other Compensation May Include: - Equity grant - Annual bonus eligibility #LI-Remote ALERT: Malicious groups posing as Adaptive employees have recently used fraudulent email aliases to extend employment offers, provide fake documents, and request sensitive personal and financial information. Legitimate Adaptive employment opportunities are initiated through our careers page and extended after multiple interviews with verified employees. Adaptive does not ask new hires to purchase anything out-of-pocket, including home office supplies and equipment. Interested in this position, but don’t meet all the requirements? Adaptive is committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams across our organization. Please consider applying even if your experience doesn’t match all the qualifications; you may be the exact candidate we’re searching for! Adaptive is not currently sponsoring candidates requiring work authorization support for this position. Adaptive’s posted compensation information includes a base salary (or hourly rate) range and summary of other available total compensation. The base salary range represents a minimum-to-maximum salary (or hourly rate) available to candidates upon extension of offer. Base salary is thoughtfully considered upon offer and is determined through multiple evaluation checks throughout the interview process, including: a candidate’s ability to meet minimum qualifications (skills/experience/education), a candidate’s ability to thoughtfully address preferred qualifications, current market conditions, and internal pay equity. Listed base salary is exclusive of bonus, commission, equity, differential pay, benefits, and other incentives. Adaptive's benefits at-a-glance. Adaptive Biotechnologies is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Please refer the “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” Poster for more information. 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