Team Lead Enterprise Tooling

AdaCore: Helping Developers Build Software that Matters
Everything we do at AdaCore is centered around helping developers build safe, secure and reliable software.

For 30 years, we've partnered with global leaders in aerospace & defense, air traffic management, space, railway and financial services. We've developed tools and services simplifying high-integrity software development through a subscription-based model. As demand for secure applications grows in industries like automotive, medical, energy, and IoT, we're adapting our proven technologies to assist a new generation of developers.
Our +190 global experts based in the US, France, Germany, the UK, and Estonia, collectively develop cutting-edge technologies to address the challenges of high-grade software development.
Joining AdaCore is about joining a culture of innovation, openness, collaboration and dependability, which defines how we work together, with our customers and partners.

Role Overview
The Enterprise Tooling Team Lead bridges technical execution and strategic business operations. In this role, you will lead a distributed engineering team responsible for administering, evolving, and securing AdaCore’s commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) SaaS platforms and internal services—including Salesforce, customer portals, CMS, and ticketing integrations. You will balance hands-on architecture and technical oversight with team management, stakeholder alignment, and resource prioritization across non-engineering functions.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, mentor, and empower a distributed technical team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.
• Direct day-to-day operations, sprint planning, task estimation, and resource allocation to balance competing business priorities.
• Conduct performance reviews, drive professional development, and promote knowledge-sharing practices across the team.
• Strategic Alignment & Stakeholder Management
• Partner closely with cross-functional non-engineering stakeholders (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Operations) to translate business needs into robust technical requirements and tooling roadmaps.
• Define and own the roadmap for Enterprise Tooling platforms, aligning tool adoption and evolution with broader company objectives.
• Act as the primary point of contact for vendor management, licensing, and SaaS evaluation.

Technical Oversight & Governance

• Provide technical direction for cloud-based platforms, APIs, automation workflows, and data migration/synchronization pipelines (primarily Python-based).
• Oversee the health, performance, security, and scalability of key enterprise systems, including Salesforce, corporate web platforms, and customer portals.
• Drive operational excellence, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code principles for software updates and deployments.
• Deploy modern AI workflows and automated solutions to optimize internal tooling efficiency and user experience.
• Enforce data governance, security best practices, and secure access controls across corporate web properties and SaaS environments.
• Qualifications

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Proven experience leading or mentoring technical teams in a distributed environment.
• Strong project management capabilities, with demonstrated success managing conflicting priorities and negotiating deadlines.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English, capable of translating complex technical concepts for business stakeholders.
• High degree of autonomy, initiative, and problem-solving skills in ambiguous environments.

Technical & Domain Experience

• Strong background in SaaS platform administration and enterprise COTS tooling (CRM/Salesforce, CMS, Ticketing/ITSM systems).
• Solid hands-on experience in web architecture, scripting, API integrations (REST/GraphQL), databases, and cloud security best practices.
• Proficiency with Python for automation, internal service development, and system integrations.
• Direct experience with data architecture, ETL processes, and cross-platform data synchronization.

Location: Grenoble or Paris 

Beyond the job
We're a global organization driven by diverse backgrounds, fostering innovation through an open exchange of ideas. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, celebrating diversity in ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, religion, abilities, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status. 
Our commitment is to help our teammates, wherever they are based, feel comfortable and satisfied, by encouraging flexibility to ensure them a healthy work-life balance. Additionally, we prioritize individual development by offering continuous training from day one with a personalized onboarding plan.

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