Senior Manager, Software Development & Architecture

Role overview

Leadership and delivery responsibilities

• Establish architecture principles, standards, and best practices; define technical roadmaps and long-term architectural strategy.
• Review designs, technology selections, and development approaches; ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Lead technical decisions for complex applications, integrations, APIs, databases, and cloud platforms; promote consistency across teams.
• Lead and develop software developers, technical leads, and architects; support recruitment, workforce planning, performance management, and career development.
• Oversee initiatives from concept through implementation and support; manage priorities, budgets, resources, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Establish governance for predictable, high-quality delivery aligned with organizational goals and business priorities.
• Champion AI-assisted and agentic development; use AI tools across design, coding, testing, documentation, reviews, and deployment.
• Set responsible AI controls for security, quality, intellectual property protection, and architectural compliance; evaluate emerging technologies.
• Partner with business leaders, communicate technical strategy and project status, and align business needs with technology solutions.
• Enforce testing, code quality, secure development, and CI/CD standards; improve quality, velocity, reliability, and delivery performance.
• Maintain hands-on involvement in technical reviews and critical solution development when required.

About you

• 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 software development teams and large-scale initiatives.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, leadership, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Technical expertise across enterprise architecture, full-stack development, APIs, systems integration, data architecture, cloud, security, governance, automated testing, DevOps, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development.
• Leadership expertise including coaching, recruitment, workforce planning, resource allocation, budgeting, delivery accountability, and organizational change.

Technical and leadership expertise

• Software architecture, systems design, full-stack development, application platforms, APIs, systems integration, data architecture, and cloud infrastructure.
• Software security, governance, risk management, automated testing, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and AI-powered software development tools.
• Team leadership, coaching, mentoring, recruitment, workforce planning, resource allocation, capacity management, budgeting, forecasting, and change management.

Why join Equinox

• Opportunity to lead enterprise-wide software development and architecture initiatives and influence technology strategy and AI adoption.
• People-focused culture emphasizing innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Meaningful work supporting engineering, operational, and business systems; flexible environment supporting long-term leadership growth.