Manager, Engineering

Job Description

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world. Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space. We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture. We are seeking a Solutions Architect to own and drive the technical architecture of our Environmental Accounting product area. This is a hands-on architecture role, ideal for a technically strong engineer who is ready to take ownership of system design, technical direction, and engineering standards while still contributing to the codebase. You will play a key role in ensuring the engineering teams consistently deliver value to customers through high-quality, reliable, and scalable SaaS solutions. You will also act as the accountable technical authority for the product area within the wider organization, including Product Management, Engineering leadership, and senior stakeholders. This role requires a strong software engineering background (ideally .NET / C# or Node.js) with the ability to stay close to the code while shaping architecture and influencing across teams. You should be comfortable working in an environment with minimal unnecessary formality, where success is driven through direct communication, trust, and continuous improvement. Critically, this role demands deep, demonstrable proficiency with AI. We are transforming how we build software and what we build. You will be expected to work fluently within an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC), to architect and deliver agentic AI solutions within our products, and to bring genuine hands-on experience with agentic coding tools — Claude Code in particular. This is not a theoretical or advisory expectation: we are looking for someone who uses these tools daily, understands their failure modes, and can raise the whole engineering organization's capability with them. Key Responsibilities Own and evolve the technical architecture Define, document, and evolve the target architecture for Sphera 's Corporate Sustainability product, covering design, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability Ensure architectural decisions are recorded, justified, and clearly communicated using appropriate modelling and documentation approaches Build a culture of technical excellence, sound design thinking, and continuous improvement across the engineering teams Act as the key technical point of reference for the product area, ensuring alignment with broader engineering and business goals AI-driven development lifecycle (AIDLC) Champion and embed an AI-Driven Development Lifecycle across the product area, applying AI meaningfully at every stage — requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, code review, documentation, and operational support Define what "good" looks like for AI-assisted engineering: prompting and context practices, human review and verification gates, quality bars, and guardrails for what must never be delegated to a model Measure the impact of AI on delivery throughput, defect rates, and engineering experience, and iterate on practices based on evidence rather than hype Establish policy and standards for the safe, secure, and compliant use of AI tooling, including handling of proprietary code, customer data, and intellectual property Agentic AI solution development Architect and deliver agentic AI capabilities within Sphera 's Environmental Accounting product, taking them from prototype through to production Design robust agentic systems: tool and function calling, orchestration and multi-agent patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, memory and context management, and human-in-the-loop controls Own the non-functional dimensions of AI features — evaluation and testing strategy, observability, latency, cost management, model selection and versioning, and graceful degradation Address AI-specific risk directly: hallucination and grounding, prompt injection and data exfiltration, access control on agent tooling, auditability, and responsible AI considerations Maintain a working knowledge of the fast-moving AI landscape and make pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-selection recomme