Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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Grade:
Management Technical 715

Pay Range: $ - $

The Senior Manager, Software Engineer role leads engineers on product development and integration teams. They will provide vision, training, technical standards, and direction to engineers who are required to know multiple languages for front-end, back-end, quality engineering, cloud engineering, and architectural responsibilities. They will work closely with leadership to strengthen a culture of collaboration and innovation within highly effective teams. They will contribute to cross‑functional teams as a lead engineer mentoring or pairing with team members in technical and development tasks.

• Supervises engineering and architectural team members, providing training, technical standards, and direction.
• Collaborates with leadership, designers, developers, and subject‑matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade‑offs between usability and performance needs, determining platforms, components, software applications, technologies, cloud and on‑prem infrastructure, and security measures.
• Interfaces with product, project, and program offices as well as external teams in the definition and execution of development projects; maintains collaborative relationships with all appropriate stakeholders.
• Works with internal and external customers to elicit technical requirements. Negotiates dependencies and maintains productive working relationships.
• Ensures optimized performance for high utilization, 24×7 access, accessibility (ADA), responsiveness, and scalability.
• Ensures student data is always handled securely and in compliance with applicable laws.
• Develops and directs software and infrastructure system testing procedures, programming, and documentation.
• Continuously improves team’s development approach, maximizing team’s ability to balance quick execution with security and stability.
• Clearly communicates constraints, conflicts, requirements, compatibility issues, and items which could affect project outcome, final performance level, or product efficacy. Offers appropriate alternatives and contingency plans.
• Provides technical and architectural leadership and successfully coaches an engineering team.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences, information technology, or related field OR equivalent and relevant work experience.
• 8+ years of experience and a proven track record in developing web-based applications and web services using Java, REST, XML, and other web technologies, including experience interfacing with databases, and integrating third‑party products with existing infrastructure in both the cloud and on‑prem.
• 2 years of experience leading teams of software engineering professionals.

• 5 years of experience leading teams of senior level software and infrastructure engineers.
• Master’s degree in computer…