Senior Manager, Digital Software Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Manager, Digital Software Engineering

• Focus: End-to-end design, build, and delivery of digital software applications

Description

You will lead medium-scale application design and development to completion as a development lead, operating with significant autonomy as a subject matter expert. The role includes architecture-to-deployment delivery, advanced troubleshooting of coding, performance, and design issues, and influence over coding/testing/implementation standards. You will also mentor peers, drive risk/compliance alignment, and collaborate with technology, business, and vendor teams.

Responsibilities

• Execute and drive application design and development efforts to completion (development lead)

• Analyze and troubleshoot coding, application performance, and design challenges

• Perform root-cause research for defects, performance, and development issues

• Own deep understanding of solution technical requirements and system lifecycle engineering needs

• Use information modeling, data structures, and algorithms to design robust systems

• Understand runtime properties, dependencies, and contingencies across platforms/hardware/OS and upstream/downstream systems

• Support architecture-aligned design standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

• Lead design discussions and make key design decisions based on code and technology knowledge

• Work with limited guidance; development strategy is defined

• Translate complex application designs into well-written implementations

• Partner with vendors for digital architecture components and collaborate on roadmaps

• Participate across the full SDLC (including test planning/execution and software quality)

• Identify cross-delivery dependencies between Agile and waterfall approaches

• Influence strategic functional decisions through clear communication and diplomacy

• Manage progress, anticipate bottlenecks, escalate/manage issues and risks, and mitigate them

• Resolve discordant views through constructive dialogue

• Optimize processes across teams and improve delivery concurrency

• Review metrics and continuously improve visibility, development process, test plans, and operations

• Streamline or eliminate repetitive process in architecture/build/delivery/production environments

• Share knowledge and demonstrate higher expertise (including industry certifications)

• Drive compliance with laws/rules/regulations and handle control issues transparently

Requirements

• 6+ years of development experience with strong hands-on Java backend engineering

• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills

• Deep proficiency in Java and Spring Boot for production-grade microservices

• Frontend experience with Angular (including JavaScript and functional programming patterns)

• Ability to apply DevSecOps and security-first practices with CI/CD tooling

• Experience writing and maintaining comprehensive UI tests

• Database experience with MSSQL/Oracle or NoSQL

• Understanding of cloud platforms including Docker and Kubernetes

• Knowledge of standard/enterprise design patterns

• Testing frameworks knowledge: JUnit, Cucumber, Jasmine/Mocha

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Ability to work autonomously in an agile environment and own deliverables end-to-end

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision coverage

• 401(k)

• Life, accident, and disability insurance

• Wellness programs

• Paid time off (vacation, sick leave) and paid holidays