Manager, Software Development

About Role

The Software Development Manager is responsible for leading and managing the technical, delivery, and people-management activities of multiple software development teams. This role manages and leads developers, ensuring they are enabled, unblocked, and aligned to deliver high-quality enterprise software solutions.

• Manage and lead developers, technical leads, and other engineering team members.
• Act as the project and delivery manager for assigned software projects and product initiatives.
• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and control of work assigned to the software development teams.
• Ensure teams are enabled, unblocked, and supported to deliver software effectively and predictably.
• Drive Agile evolution and continuous improvement across teams, including Scrum practices, delivery cadence, backlog readiness, sprint execution, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination.
• Work closely with Product on release planning, backlog prioritization, delivery sequencing, scope alignment, and dependency management.
• Coordinate with Product to ensure requirements are clear, refined, estimated, and ready for development.
• Manage team capacity, resource allocation, workload balance, and skill utilization.
• Efficiently and effectively manage the division's resources, including , human skills, software tools, and information technology.
• Receive assignments in the form of objectives and translate them into actionable team plans, priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
• Determine and coordinate the assignments of subordinate team members and provide technical and administrative assistance as needed.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for enterprise software development initiatives.
• Support high-level design of enterprise system architecture, including scalable, maintainable, secure, and reliable software solutions.
• Support software design approaches for multi-tenant systems, microservices, and cloud-hosted enterprise applications.
• Act as a sponsor for Quality of Service for assigned software projects, including performance, reliability, scalability, availability, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Work with QA Managers and QA Directors to define, identify, monitor, and address software quality issues, defects, and quality trends.
• Review quality metrics and collaborate with QA leadership to improve test coverage, defect prevention, automation, and release readiness.
• Monitor team productivity and delivery metrics, such as velocity, throughput, predictability, cycle time, defect trends, escaped defects, and sprint goal achievement.
• Identify delivery risks, technical risks, quality risks, and team blockers, and take corrective action where needed.
• Frequently interact with other managers to coordinate team assignments, dependencies, shared priorities, and related activities.
• Support engineering best practices, including code quality, peer reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, secure development, documentation, and operational support readiness.
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members to improve technical capability, accountability, collaboration, and delivery performance.
• Promote a culture of ownership, transparency, continuous improvement, engineering excellence, and customer-focused delivery.

• Enable developers with AI-assisted tools and practices to improve productivity, software delivery efficiency, code quality, documentation, testing, and engineering workflows.
• Promote responsible and effective use of AI tools across development teams, while aligning with company standards, security requirements, and software engineering best practices.
• Identify opportunities to use AI to reduce repetitive engineering tasks, improve developer experience, accelerate troubleshooting, support knowledge sharing, and improve delivery outcomes.
• Support teams in adopting AI tools that help them become more productive, not limited to building AI-enabled product features.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience in software engineering and enterprise software development.
• 7+ years of experience managing software development teams, including direct people management and delivery ownership.
• Experience managing multiple teams, preferably two or more teams in parallel.
• Strong understanding of Agile software delivery, Scrum practices, release planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement.
• Experience working with Product Managers and Product Owners to plan releases, manage priorities, and enable delivery.
• Experience managing software delivery metrics, team productivity indicators, quality trends, and delivery performance.
• Strong technical understanding of enterprise application architecture and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience coordinating with QA leadership on quality planning, quality trends, defect management, and release readiness.
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