Manager, Software Engineering - Java - 5576

Our client is a large, technology-driven organization seeking an experienced Manager, Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for business-critical applications and digital platforms.

This role combines people leadership, technical fluency, delivery ownership, and business partnership
. You’ll manage and develop senior software engineers and technical leads while providing the direction, coaching, staffing, prioritization, and support needed to deliver high-quality software.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader who can balance people, technology, delivery, and business priorities while helping teams continuously improve.

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and technical leads through feedback, goal setting, performance management, and career development.
• Build effective teams through hiring, staffing, onboarding, and clear accountability.
• Support the growth of senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.

• Own delivery across scope, quality, timelines, dependencies, risk, budget, and operational readiness.
• Partner with product, architecture, QA, operations, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into executable plans.
• Help teams prioritize initiatives, communicate tradeoffs, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Manage staffing and budgets for significant software initiatives.

• Enable technical leads to drive architecture, design, code quality, and day-to-day engineering execution.
• Guide teams working with technologies including Java, Angular, AWS, APIs, microservices, databases, and cloud platforms
  .
• Promote strong practices around automated testing, CI/CD, observability, production support, and reliability.
• Use engineering and team-performance metrics to improve delivery, quality, and reliability.
• Strengthen incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement practices.
• Support responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development
  , with appropriate human oversight, security, privacy, and quality controls.

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• Proven experience managing or formally leading software engineering teams, including senior or lead-level engineers.
• Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including architecture, development, testing, deployment, production support, performance, and reliability.
• Experience leading complex, business-critical software initiatives using Java, Angular, AWS, or comparable modern technologies
  .
• Experience partnering with business and product leaders to define priorities, communicate technical tradeoffs, and deliver outcomes.
• Experience managing staffing, delivery planning, dependencies, risk, and budgets for significant technology initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong communication, leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, distributed systems, Dev Ops, automated delivery, and observability.
• Experience managing multiple teams, technical leads, vendors, or distributed engineering partners.
• Experience using engineering metrics to improve delivery and team performance.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development and modern engineering practices.
• Experience in high-volume, customer-facing, transactional, retail, ecommerce, financial services, or similarly complex environments.

• Lead and develop experienced software engineers and technical leaders.
• Influence engineering culture, delivery practices, and technical execution.
• Work on business-critical digital platforms with significant organizational impact.
• Help shape modern software engineering and responsible AI adoption.
• Competitive compensation, annual bonus eligibility, and comprehensive benefits.
• Compensation: $140,000–$180,000 Base + Annual Bonus

This role will be on site 4 days per week in White Plains and will require an on site interview.