At a glance: First-line Engineering Manager · 7–10 direct reports · Reports to Engineering Director· Budapest-based, hybrid · Growth hire to restore sustainable engineering management coverage.
About the team
The team builds cloud-native modules within Phoenix Cloud, Certara's platform for PK/PD analysis, from data in to publication-ready outputs. Work spans analytics, insights, and reporting capabilities such as publication-ready visualisations, report authoring, and the workflow required to bring it all together. The team works in a cross-functional agile model with product managers, testers, and domain experts. Software ships under validation standards expected by regulated life-sciences customers. Technical decisions are made by the people closest to the work; the engineering manager's job is to develop those people, keep delivery predictable, and step in on architecture and cross-team alignment when needed. Expect roughly one quarter of your time on technical review and judgment, with the balance across people leadership, stakeholder alignment, and planning.
Responsibilities
This is not a PM-only or roadmap-owner role, but you will broker priorities and settle technical debates when delivery is on the line.
People: Develop and lead 7–10 software engineers across Europe, with emphasis on 1:1s, performance feedback, documented growth plans, and input on future hiring needs.
Delivery: Own release coordination, tier-1 Phoenix Cloud implementation escalations, and cross-functional prioritization with Product Owner(s) and Test Engineer(s) when projects compete for the same resources.
Platform discipline: Foster technical decision-making on the team (and make final calls when needed), participate in ISO certification activities with quality and compliance partners, and drive portfolio improvements such as AWS cost optimization, internal training, engineering dashboards, and consistency across reporting products.
Qualifications
Must have
Experience leading a team of 5 or more software engineers, including regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, and documented development plans
Demonstrated ability to build consensus across departments under competing priorities
Progressive engineering leadership experience with credible technical judgment: code review, escalation triage, and architectural tradeoffs — comfortable operating in quality-conscious release environments (regulated experience a plus; not only historical IC work)
You'll need to quickly get good at
Hiring and developing engineers on distributed teams across Europe
Participating in ISO certification activities alongside quality and compliance partners
Coordinating release and implementation work across product, QA, and customer-facing delivery
You might be a fit if
You kept standards (reviews, feedback, incident follow-through) when delivery pressure was constant
You have owned release coordination, implementation delivery, or customer escalation paths, not only sprint facilitation
You are comfortable making technical tradeoffs in regulated life-sciences software where accuracy and validation matter
Helpful context, not required You do not need a PK/PD or Lifesciences background. You will ramp faster if you have shipped regulated software, worked near clinical or scientific users, or have background in finance, life sciences quality, or regulatory software. Experience with analytics, reporting, or data-visualization products on a multi-tenant cloud platform, or exposure to AI-assisted product features, is a plus but not expected.
Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.
This is not a PM-only or roadmap-owner role, but you will broker priorities and settle technical debates when delivery is on the line.
People: Develop and lead 7–10 software engineers across Europe, with emphasis on 1:1s, performance feedback, documented growth plans, and input on future hiring needs.
Delivery: Own release coordination, tier-1 Phoenix Cloud implementation escalations, and cross-functional prioritization with Product Owner(s) and Test Engineer(s) when projects compete for the same resources.
Platform discipline: Foster technical decision-making on the team (and make final calls when needed), participate in ISO certification activities with quality and compliance partners, and drive portfolio improvements such as AWS cost optimization, internal training, engineering dashboards, and consistency across reporting products.
Must have
Experience leading a team of 5 or more software engineers, including regular 1:1s, clear performance feedback, and documented development plans
Demonstrated ability to build consensus across departments under competing priorities
Progressive engineering leadership experience with credible technical judgment: code review, escalation triage, and architectural tradeoffs — comfortable operating in quality-conscious release environments (regulated experience a plus; not only historical IC work)
You'll need to quickly get good at
Hiring and developing engineers on distributed teams across Europe
Participating in ISO certification activities alongside quality and compliance partners
Coordinating release and implementation work across product, QA, and customer-facing delivery
You might be a fit if
You kept standards (reviews, feedback, incident follow-through) when delivery pressure was constant
You have owned release coordination, implementation delivery, or customer escalation paths, not only sprint facilitation
You are comfortable making technical tradeoffs in regulated life-sciences software where accuracy and validation matter
Helpful context, not required You do not need a PK/PD or Lifesciences background. You will ramp faster if you have shipped regulated software, worked near clinical or scientific users, or have background in finance, life sciences quality, or regulatory software. Experience with analytics, reporting, or data-visualization products on a multi-tenant cloud platform, or exposure to AI-assisted product features, is a plus but not expected.
Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.
