Engineering Manager jobs in Illinois

Invenergy

Full-time · Chicago, IL · $135,000 – $165,000

Lead a team of solar engineers designing and developing utility-scale solar projects across the United States, working closely with origination and development teams. This role suits experienced engineers ready to move into management, combining technical expertise with team building and stakeholder management.

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Stanley Consultants

Chicago, IL · $122,300 – $160,850

This role manages a team of 3-6 engineers within a water and wastewater consulting section, overseeing project delivery, budgets, and staff development for a global engineering firm. It suits someone with water infrastructure expertise who can balance technical knowledge with people management and administrative oversight.

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Comcast

Chicago, IL · $137,369 – $206,054

A management role leading a software engineering team building video advertising infrastructure at scale, handling billions of daily requests. Suits experienced engineers ready to move into people leadership while staying technically grounded in systems design and distributed architecture.

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AlphaSense

Chicago, IL · $110,000 – $150,000

AlphaSense seeks a technical manager to establish and lead a new Desktop Software Engineering team within Corporate IT, bridging endpoint device management with internal product quality. This role suits someone who has excelled as an individual contributor in systems engineering and is ready to build a function from scratch, defining processes and developing a small team of specialists.

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Geneva

Full-time · Chicago, IL · $180,000 – $250,000

Lead a small team building and operating market data platforms that serve trading systems, researchers, and increasingly AI-driven tools at a principal trading firm. This is a hands-on role requiring both people management and active coding, focusing on capturing, normalizing, and delivering market data with reliability and correctness as top priorities.

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Invenergy

Full-time · Chicago, IL · $135,000 – $165,000

Invenergy is seeking an engineering manager to lead a team of performance engineers overseeing third-party solar facilities, focusing on maximizing energy production and operational efficiency. This role suits someone with 6+ years of technical engineering experience, at least 3–5 years in solar operations, and demonstrated people management skills who can bridge technical problem-solving with team leadership.

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Comcast

Chicago, IL · $137,369 – $206,054

A management role leading a software engineering team building API services and tools for programmatic advertising operations. This suits experienced engineering managers who know Python and want to mentor engineers while overseeing technical strategy in a large, established media technology company.

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Stanley Consultants

Chicago, IL · $122,300 – $160,850

A transportation engineering manager role leading a drainage and water resources team at a consulting firm, guiding senior engineers and mentoring junior staff while overseeing highway design projects across Illinois. Suited for an experienced engineer comfortable with client relationships, project delivery, and growing people in a hybrid work environment.

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Invenergy

Full-time · Chicago, IL · $139,000 – $165,000

Lead enterprise data integration and analytics operations at this energy infrastructure company, managing platforms like Databricks and Boomi while overseeing a team of analysts and integration specialists. This role suits experienced technical managers who want to drive data strategy and operational excellence across a large organization.

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Comcast

Full-time · Chicago, IL · $137,369 – $206,054

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role overseeing a team responsible for the operational reliability and performance of FreeWheel's Buyer Cloud platform. It suits experienced engineers who want to move into management while staying technically active, combining people leadership with production support and incident response.

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Comcast

Chicago, IL · $137,369 – $206,054

This role manages a team of software engineers while contributing hands-on backend development work. It suits experienced engineers ready to lead others and influence technical direction within an advertising platform company.

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