Engineering Manager, CI CD

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Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Engineering Manager, CI/CD

We are looking for a Manager for our In-Person-Payments Tooling team . The team is based in Chicago, you will be guiding the vision and execution for the CI/CD Engineering aspect ensuring smooth and efficient software development and deployment processes.

As a Team Lead, your primary focus is to create and enable a high performing platform engineering team. You will oversee the development of tools and applications that manage the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for our Android and iOS applications. You will ensure your team successfully collaborates with the infrastructure teams, handling Kubernetes clusters to provide an elevated SDLC experience for the entire organization. You will also stay close to your users and deliver the most impactful initiatives for their developer experience.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Leadership: Lead a team of DevOps and Infrastructure Engineers in designing and implementing high-performance CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Gradle, KMP, and Develocity.
• Strategic Oversight: Define the roadmap for automating build processes, caching optimizations, and security scanning to ensure software deployment remains smooth and efficient.
• Mentorship & Growth: Actively coach engineers in troubleshooting complex build failures and developing an "automation-first" mindset.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary point of contact between mobile developers and infrastructure teams to ensure tooling health, monitoring, and alerting are seamlessly integrated.
• Process Excellence: Champion quality-focused initiatives, ensuring the CI/CD pipeline remains the organization's first line of defense for code stability.

Who You Are

• Experienced People Leader: You have a proven track record (3+ years) as a Technical Manager or Team Lead . You know how to manage performance, foster career growth, and maintain team velocity.
• Empathetic Navigator: You understand that leading a team is about clearing roadblocks and building an environment where diverse perspectives thrive.
• Analytical Strategist: You can look at complex infrastructure challenges and guide your team toward logical, scalable solutions.
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