Delivery predictability. Establish and maintain the processes, rituals, and accountability structures that keep three parallel workstreams (greenfield platform work, client-facing implementations, and live production operations) shipping on time and with high quality. You know how to right-size agile practices for the work at hand. Process pays rent; you believe that.
People and manager development. Grow an effective layer of engineering managers and help them build high-performing, engaged teams. This is your primary lever. Your principals own the technical roadmap; your teams' health, growth, and culture live with you. You have a track record of developing first-time and experienced managers alike.
Operational excellence. Own the reliability and SLA performance of Cedar's integration systems. Reduce MTTI, MTTR, and systemic incident rates. Build a culture where operational quality (observability, on-call discipline, postmortem rigor) is a first-class engineering value, not an afterthought.
Data platform evolution. Partner with the Principal Data Architect to keep Cedar's data platform transition on track: migration from legacy systems, adoption of new architecture across the organization, and ensuring that downstream consumers (product engineering, data science, analytics, and AI/ML) have trusted, accessible data when they need it.
Integration scalability. Reduce the time and cost of onboarding new clients and enabling new product lines. Advance the integration frameworks and patterns that let your teams scale their impact without scaling headcount proportionally.
Organizational clarity and thrash reduction. Build the structures (intake processes, prioritization frameworks, escalation paths) that protect your teams from the constant pull of ad-hoc requests and shifting priorities. You'll also coach your managers to run their teams with increasing autonomy: to hold a line, uphold a roadmap, and absorb pressure without needing escalation assistance. You'll build an org that operates with discipline even when the environment around it is noisy.
Cross-functional partnership. Build effective relationships with Product, Data Science, Commercial, and Delivery Engineering. Represent your teams' capacity and priorities clearly; negotiate trade-offs constructively; keep issues surfaced and resolved before they become crises. You're a peer other leaders want to work with.