Senior Manager, Software Development & Architecture

Role overview

Technology leadership and architecture

• Establish enterprise software architecture principles, standards, and best practices; define technical roadmaps and long-term architectural strategies.
• Review and approve architectural designs, technology selections, and development approaches.
• Lead technical decisions for complex applications, integrations, APIs, databases, and cloud platforms; promote consistency across teams.
• Ensure software solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.

People and delivery leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop developers, technical leads, and software architects; support recruitment, workforce planning, performance management, and career development.
• Oversee software initiatives from concept through implementation and support; manage priorities, budgets, resources, and delivery commitments across teams.
• Evaluate feasibility, risks, resource needs, and architectural alignment; establish governance for predictable, high-quality delivery.

AI and stakeholder collaboration

• Champion AI-assisted and agentic development practices across the software lifecycle, using AI tools for design, coding, testing, documentation, reviews, and deployment.
• Set controls for responsible AI use and ensure security, quality, intellectual property protection, and architectural compliance.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and opportunities to improve productivity.
• Partner with business leaders to translate requirements into technical solutions; communicate strategies, risks, priorities, and project status to technical and non-technical audiences.

Quality and continuous improvement

• Establish and enforce development standards, automated testing, code quality expectations, secure development, governance, and CI/CD processes.
• Monitor quality, development velocity, operational reliability, and delivery performance; improve development processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Maintain hands-on involvement in technical reviews and critical solution development when required.

Candidate qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of professional software development experience.
• Significant experience in software architecture, enterprise application development, and technical leadership.
• Proven experience leading multiple development teams and large-scale technology initiatives.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills; ability to align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

Technical and leadership expertise

• Enterprise architecture, systems design, full-stack development, application platforms, API design, systems integration, and data architecture.
• Cloud infrastructure and platforms; software security, governance, and risk management.
• Automated testing, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, source control, and automation.
• AI-assisted software development tools, agentic workflows, and productivity platforms.
• Team leadership, coaching, mentoring, recruitment, workforce planning, resource allocation, capacity management, budgeting, forecasting, and delivery accountability.
• Organizational change management, technology transformation, and building high-performance engineering cultures.

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