Engineering Manager, NOC Automation and Custom Tools

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Job Title: Engineering Manager, NOC Automation and Custom Tools

Position Summary
athenahealth is seeking an Engineering Manager, NOC Automation & Custom Tools to lead a team that builds, delivers, and operates internally facing applications supporting the Network Operations Center and related operational functions.

This role is best suited for a people leader with a strong software engineering background who has grown from hands-on full-stack engineering experience and has built applications across private and public cloud environments. The leader in this role will combine technical judgment, delivery ownership, and coaching to help the team improve operational workflows, service visibility, reliability, and the day-to-day experience of operational users.

About the Team
The team builds custom software and internal tools that improve the effectiveness, scale, and resilience of NOC operations. These applications support alert and incident management workflows and partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, operations, security, and business stakeholders to solve operational problems through software.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• People leadership and team development

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.

  • Set clear priorities, goals, and expectations aligned to business and operational needs.

  • Manage sprint planning, work intake, delivery tracking, staffing, performance management, and career development.

  • Create an inclusive, accountable team environment that supports technical excellence and continuous improvement.

• Internal application delivery

  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate operational pain points into scalable software solutions.

  • Design, build, and support internal applications, services, and workflow tools for operational users.

  • Support both frontend and backend development with maintainable, secure, performant solutions.

  • Guide delivery of software that works effectively across private cloud and public cloud environments.

• Automation and workflow modernization

  • Identify opportunities to automate manual and semi-manual operational workflows.

  • Use orchestration, event-driven systems, APIs, and AI-assisted solutions to reduce manual effort and improve response times.

  • Guide the team in applying AI engineering patterns such as RAG, semantic search, MCP-enabled integrations, workflow orchestration, and human-in-the-loop systems.

  • Establish practical standards for safe and effective AI use in internal applications, including evaluation, observability, access controls, prompt/context management, output validation, and fallback paths.

• Technical leadership and engineering practices

  • Provide technical leadership across architecture, code reviews, release planning, and production readiness.

  • Promote strong engineering practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and alerting.

  • Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to meet enterprise standards for availability, access control, compliance, and supportability.

  • Participate in incident response and operational review processes to reduce repetitive manual effort and improve resiliency.

• Measurement and continuous improvement

  • Use metrics, user feedback, operational insights, and team health indicators to improve application quality, developer productivity, and stakeholder satisfaction.

  • Build preventive improvements based on root-cause learning and operational issues.

  • Support software delivery that is reliable, observable, and aligned to business needs.

Expected Education & Experience

• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams in a people management role.

• Strong software or infrastructure engineering background with hands-on production application experience.

• Experience delivering custom internal tools or business applications that support operational or enterprise users.

• Experience as a full-stack engineer with working knowledge of frontend and backend technologies.

• Experience building software in both private cloud and public cloud environments.

• Strong understanding of Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management.

• Experience identifying and aut