Senior Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide senior level technical leadership and architectural oversight for complex, enterprise scale platforms.
• Lead architecture design sessions and design reviews, ensuring alignment to non functional requirements including availability, scalability, performance, resiliency, and security.
• Guide teams on architectural tradeoffs and implementation approaches to ensure long term maintainability and operational stability.
• Lead technical direction for teams building highly scalable, event driven systems using modern data streaming, container, and cloud native technologies.
• Translate complex technical concepts, risks, and options into clear, business focused communication for senior leadership and executive audiences.
• Provide strategic oversight for the design, development, and continuous enhancement of the platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.
• Manage and lead development efforts for a modern, cloud native technology ecosystem leveraging cutting edge platforms and technologies, including containerized microservices, event driven architectures (Kafka), and No
  
  SQL data stores (MongoDB), deployed on Open Shift/Kubernetes.
• Oversee and coordinate delivery across multiple scrum teams simultaneously, managing dependencies, release planning, and execution risks.
• Drive adoption and maturity of Agile, Dev Sec Ops , and reliability practices, balancing delivery speed with quality, security, and compliance requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a global organization of engineers, technical leads, business systems analysts, and vendor partners.
• Foster a culture of transparent, honest, and respectful communication, ensuring clarity and trust both upward to leadership and downward to teams.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for platform issues and major incidents, ensuring effective resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with information security, infrastructure, and compliance teams to ensure platforms meet regulatory, audit, and risk management expectations.
• Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to translate strategy into executable technology roadmaps.

• 7+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or application management.
• 3+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership or people management role.
• Strong technical background in .NET based platforms, microservices architecture, enterprise integration, and cloud native deployments (Open Shift, Kubernetes, AWS or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed teams and managing delivery across multiple agile teams.
• Proven ability to lead architecture discussions and influence technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive leadership.
• Experience supporting payments platforms or payment processing systems in a regulated financial services environment (preferred).
• Experience working in large scale enterprise or financial services organizations (preferred).