Senior Manager Application Engineering

Bealls Inc. is an American retail corporation of over 650 stores across 23 states founded in 1915 in Bradenton, Florida. Headquartered in Bradenton, Florida, since its founding in 1915, the family-owned corporation now operates more than 550 stores under the names of Bealls, Bealls Florida and Home Centric.

3+ years of management experience over development teams, proficient .NET/C# engineer, Microsoft Azure/Cloud Engineering

The Senior Manager
- Enterprise Application Engineering leads Bealls enterprise application development organization. The role advances a modern, cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure and an AI-augmented software development lifecycle, while owning end-to-end delivery: capacity, execution, quality, support, and partner management across all business areas. It is equally accountable for building new capabilities and for keeping the established application portfolio stable, secure, and progressively modernized.

Partners closely with Merchandising, Planning & Allocation, Store Operations, Logistics, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Ecommerce, Data Engineering, Information Technology leadership, and external delivery partners

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers and engineering managers across the application development organization
• Own hiring, performance management, and career development for the team
• Set technical direction and foster a collaborative, standards-driven engineering culture

Own capacity planning and resource allocation across concurrent product lines, balancing new development against the maintenance backlog

Run agile delivery sprint planning, execution, and release management to deliver predictably across all business areas

Own production support, service-level commitments, and incident escalation for the application portfolio

Set and enforce standards for code quality, testing, security, branch governance, and observability

Direct external delivery partners on scope, quality, throughput, and skills mix

• Deliver cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure across web, mobile (.NET MAUI) and handheld/PDA surfaces
• Drive the integration architecture toward Azure-based integrations and a general publish/subscribe pattern, retiring legacy ETL and file-transfer tooling, with transformation localized at the endpoints
• Keep the established .NET and C# application portfolio stable, secure, and supported while looking for opportunities to modernize
• Make sound architecture decisions in partnership with leadership and domain teams

• Guide delivery of AI applications conversational assistants, retrieval-augmented experiences, and agentic workflows with appropriate grounding, access control, and human-in-the-loop review
• Apply AI across the software development lifecycle to relieve capacity and delivery-timeline constraints, championing effective, measured use of AI development tools

• Other duties as assigned

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading engineers or engineering managers
• Deep, hands-on-credible experience in the .NET / C# ecosystem across both modern .NET and older framework applications
• Demonstrated delivery on Microsoft Azure compute, integration, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery across multiple concurrent teams or product lines, including capacity planning, sprint execution, quality, and production support
• Experience designing or delivering integration / messaging architectures (pub/sub, event-driven, or service-bus) and migrating off legacy ETL tooling
• Track record modernizing or maintaining an established application portfolio while shipping new capabilities in parallel
• Experience managing external delivery partners alongside full-time staff
• Strong architecture and technical judgment; able to communicate decisions to both engineers and executives

• Delivery experience with AI/LLM applications retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, agentic patterns, and AI-in-the-SDLC practices
• Retail, off-price, or merchandising / supply-chain domain exposure
• Familiarity with .NET MAUI or mobile / PDA / handheld delivery for store and warehouse environments
• Exposure to payment-device /…