Software Engineering Manager - Onsite

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KēSTA I.T. is seeking an experienced software engineering manager for an exciting full-time opportunity with our industry-leading client.

Are you an experienced software engineering leader who enjoys building high-performing teams, driving technical strategy, and delivering complex software initiatives? This is an opportunity to lead a large team of software engineers and QA professionals while playing a key role in the organization's continued technology growth and transformation.

The Software Engineering Manager will report directly to the VP of Application Development & Software Solutions and will provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for a large software engineering and quality assurance organization.

This leader will be responsible for guiding multiple concurrent software initiatives from planning and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering experience with demonstrated success leading people, developing high-performing teams, and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions.

This is a fully in-office leadership position requiring strong collaboration with engineering teams, technology leadership, business stakeholders, and other organizational partners. The successful candidate will bring a strong technical foundation, sound architectural judgment, excellent communication skills, and a passion for developing people and creating a culture of engineering excellence.

• Lead and manage a large team of software engineers and QA professionals, providing direction, coaching, mentorship, and ongoing development.
• Oversee software engineering delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring projects are completed within established scope, quality, timeline, and business expectations.
• Develop and maintain a high-performing engineering organization through effective hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and succession planning.
• Coach and mentor engineering leaders and individual contributors, helping team members strengthen their technical, professional, and leadership capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across the software development lifecycle, including solution design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Partner with the VP of Application Development & Software Solutions and other technology leaders to establish engineering strategies, priorities, standards, and roadmaps.
• Contribute to architecture and technical decision-making while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with organizational objectives.
• Establish and promote modern software development practices, engineering standards, development methodologies, code quality practices, and Dev Ops principles.
• Drive adoption and effective use of cloud-native architectures, modern development tools, automation, CI/CD, and enterprise software platforms.
• Work closely with QA leadership and teams to establish strong quality practices and ensure software is delivered with a high level of reliability and performance.
• Monitor team capacity, resource allocation, delivery schedules, and competing priorities across multiple initiatives.
• Identify and address delivery risks, technical debt, resource constraints, and organizational challenges before they impact business outcomes.
• Collaborate with product, project, business, infrastructure, security, and other technology teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Communicate project status, technical risks, resource needs, priorities, and delivery progress to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, software engineering practices, and industry trends and evaluate opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3–5+ years of experience in software engineering leadership or people management.
• Proven experience leading a software engineering team and managing delivery across multiple concurrent…