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About Landmark
Landmark, a Halliburton company, builds the software and data platforms that help the global energy industry make better decisions. Our products span subsurface interpretation, well construction planning, reservoir simulation, production optimization, and data management. These are tools used daily by engineers and scientists at the world's largest energy companies. We are hiring Senior Software Engineering Managers across multiple product domains to match the scale and ambition of our engineering organization.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Landmark, you will lead a major engineering function within one of several product domains: subsurface (geophysics and geoscience software), drilling software, reservoir modeling, production optimization, or data platforms. The specific domain will depend on your background and on organizational need, but the engineering challenges are shared across all of them.
Landmark's product portfolio carries decades of accumulated science and engineering value. Much of the current work involves refactoring large, mature codebases at scale: decoupling the science, the business logic, the data layers, and the UI so that each can evolve independently. Several products are moving to new platforms entirely. You will lead teams through these transitions while continuing to deliver value to customers who depend on the software today. The balance between modernization and continued delivery, between architectural discipline and the pressure to ship, is the defining challenge of the role.
You will manage Engineering Managers or senior individual contributors, and you will develop them with the same intentionality you expect them to bring to their own teams. This is not a role where you manage from a distance. You earn trust by walking into the technical details when it matters, whether that means reviewing an architectural proposal, working through the tradeoffs in a migration sequence, or helping a team resolve a difficult dependency. You pair that technical depth with the organizational skill to run a disciplined engineering operation: clear standards, consistent practices, and teams that understand not just what they are building but why.
What You Will Do

• Lead multiple engineering teams or a large team of 10-20 engineers, with accountability for delivery, quality, and operational health across your scope
• Manage Engineering Managers or senior individual contributors by coaching them on leadership, delivery, and the growth of their own teams
• Sequence and oversee major architectural changes, including legacy decomposition, layer decoupling, and platform migrations, against ongoing delivery commitments so that modernization does not come at the cost of customer value
• Maintain engineering discipline across your scope: sprint health, quality standards, incident response, technical debt management, and consistent practices that teams can rely on
• Dive into technical issues when the situation requires it, review architecture proposals, pressure-test migration plans, and work alongside Staff and Principal Engineers to ensure that management direction and technical direction reinforce each other
• Communicate the intent behind priorities and decisions so that your teams understand the "why," not just the "what," and can make good local decisions without waiting for direction
• Work with product leaders to align engineering direction and product direction, ensuring that the sequencing of technical work reflects both customer value and long-term architectural goals
• Contribute to cross-functional planning with product management, design, and domain science to set quarterly priorities and manage dependencies
• Build organizational clarity: clear team charters, well-understood ownership boundaries, and documented engineering practices
• Identify organizational impediments, whether structural, technical, or interpersonal, and resolve them before they compound
• Set the hiring bar across your scope, build the candidate funnel, and make the final calls on senior hires

What You Will Bring
Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering or engineering management experience
• 3+ years managing engineering teams with direct accountability for delivery outcomes
• Experience managing managers or leading a team large enough to require delegation of management responsibility
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery across complex, multi-team or multi-stakeholder programs
• A technical background that allows you to engage credibly with architectural decisions, code quality tradeoffs, and platform migration planning; you do not need to write code daily, but you must be able to go deep when it matters
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to create clarity from ambiguity and represent engineering needs at a senior leadership level
• Track record of deliberate talent development: growing engineers and managers through feedback, stretch assignments, and coaching

Preferred:

• Experience leading large-scale refactoring or modernization of mature, complex codebases
• Experience with platform migrations, including moving products from one runtime, framework, or deployment model to another while maintaining continuity for customers
• Familiarity with the architectural patterns involved in decoupling monolithic applications: separating science or domain logic from UI, extracting data layers, and establishing clean API boundaries
• Experience leading engineering teams that build scientific, simulation, or engineering-domain software for expert users
• Familiarity with cloud-native software delivery at scale on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience building engineering operational practices from the ground up, including on-call frameworks, engineering health metrics, and incident post-mortems
• Background in energy, geoscience, drilling, reservoir engineering, production engineering, or a related technical domain, whether as an engineer, a manager, or through adjacent software work

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if your experience does not match every item in the preferred list.
Why Landmark
Landmark is growing its engineering leadership team across the product portfolio. The people we hire into these roles will own a meaningful slice of the product and the teams that build it. You will have real scope, peers who are invested in your growth, and the latitude to build organizational practices that last.
We build small, high-ownership teams and invest in the quality of every person on them. Engineers here co-author the product direction alongside product management and domain science: the art of the possible is an engineering contribution, not a function that sits upstream. The experiences we design ensure that customers remain in control of the decisions that matter, never passengers in their own workflows.
Please Note:
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Compensation Information
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.
Location
Opportunities may exist in multiple locations.
Job Details
Requisition Number: 208402
Level: Experience Hire
Job Family: Technology
PSL: Landmark Software & Services
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
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