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Senior Manager, Enterprise Engineering & Process Excellence

Riot Games

Los Angeles · 8+ years experience · Posted Sep 25, 2026

At a glance

Experience
8+ years experience
Location
Los Angeles

About the role

  • As Senior Manager, Enterprise Engineering & Process Excellence, you will lead two horizontal capabilities that the rest of Enterprise Systems depends on: Enterprise Software Engineering and Business Process Excellence.
  • You will manage a multidisciplinary team of software engineers and business systems analysts while connecting business needs, process workflows, and technology delivery.
  • The role reports to the Director, Enterprise Systems and focuses on building a function that reimagines enterprise engineering and process excellence for an AI-enabled organization.

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategy and technical direction for enterprise software engineering, integration, and automation.
  • Lead the design, development, and operation of reliable applications, APIs, integrations, and automations that support critical enterprise capabilities.
  • Establish strong engineering practices across architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and production support.
  • Develop the Integration & Automation Center of Excellence through reusable patterns, shared platforms, governance, and enablement across Enterprise Systems.
  • Build and lead a modern process excellence practice that uses process mining, telemetry, and AI-enabled tools to identify, prioritize, and measure improvement opportunities.
  • Lead the redesign of complex, cross-functional enterprise processes, translating business needs into clear requirements and scalable solutions.
  • Establish practical standards for process ownership, governance, measurement, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with business and technology leaders to deliver measurable improvements in cycle time, quality, automation, and Rioter experience.
  • Build and develop a multidisciplinary team of software engineers and business systems analysts, creating shared accountability from process discovery through production delivery.
  • Manage priorities, delivery, and external partners across the portfolio, communicating outcomes, risks, and trade-offs clearly to business and technology leaders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience delivering enterprise technology solutions.
  • 12+ years of progressive experience across software engineering, enterprise platforms, process excellence, or technology-enabled transformation.
  • 8+ years of experience managing software engineers, business systems analysts, or multidisciplinary technical teams.
  • Experience owning the technical quality, architecture, and operational health of a portfolio of enterprise applications, APIs, and platforms, and designing new software capabilities that solve business and process problems.
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including code review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and production operations.
  • Experience with cloud/data platforms such as AWS, GCP or Databricks; programming languages such as Go, or TypeScript; and modern application frameworks such as Next.js.
  • Proven experience in business process assessment, redesign, modeling, governance, and continuous improvement.
  • Experience using process data, telemetry, process mining, or operational analytics to identify opportunities and measure improvements.
  • Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects or portfolios involving business, engineering, data, and operational stakeholders.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical and process concepts to business, technical, and executive audiences.

Benefits

  • Open paid time off policy
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Parental leave for employee, spouse/domestic partner, and children
  • 401k with company match

Skills

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Databricks
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Celonis
  • ARIS
  • Signavio
  • UiPath
  • Workato
  • MuleSoft
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  • Boomi
  • Lean
  • Six Sigma

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