Manager, IT Engineering
Company: KeHE
Category: IT
Naperville
Type: Full Time
KeHE is looking for an IT Engineering Manager to join their team. The Engineering Manager leads the technical execution and people development for one or more product teams. They are responsible for engineering quality, architecture alignment, technical decisions, and coaching engineers.
They partner closely with the Product Manager to ensure the team delivers high-value, high-quality solutions efficiently and reliably. The Engineering Manager is the primary people manager for engineers on the team and is accountable for building, developing, and retaining engineering talent.
The Engineering manager is responsible for partnering with the Product Manager to ensure the value is realized. The Engineering Manager actively invests in their own professional growth by staying current with emerging technologies, leadership practices, and organizational priorities. They foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture that promotes psychological safety, continuous learning, and high performance, ensuring the team operates with trust, transparency, and shared accountability.
Pay range is $129,910 – $190,454 annually. Benefits: Health/Rx; Dental; Vision; Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA); Supplemental life insurance; 401(k); Paid time off; Paid sick time; Short-term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD); Employee stock ownership (ESOP); Holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Essential Functions:
- Provide technical leadership and ensure architecture alignment across product teams.
- Define and enforce technical standards for engineering, ensuring best practices and continuous improvement.
- Drive modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, automation of governance, and advanced analytics capabilities.
- Coach and develop engineers, manage performance, and build high-performing teams.
- Own delivery execution, ensuring predictable velocity and quality outcomes.
- Partner with Product Manager to shape the product roadmap, prioritize technical work and ensure the value is realized.
- Drive operational reliability, monitoring SLOs and implementing DevOps/SRE practices.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
- Work closely with other departments to define technical requirements and build high-quality software solutions.
- Ensure smooth execution of solutions to realization of value.



