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Senior Manager Software Engineering

Xactware
College Station, USA
Senior
Remote
Discovered 1 months ago

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Required Experience

  • 8–12+ years in software engineering or systems development
  • 5+ years leading complex delivery through other engineers (formal or informal leadership)
  • Proven track record leading engineering teams that have fully leveraged AI tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Kiro, etc.) as a first-class part of SDLC, with demonstrated productivity gains in code generation, code review, and testing
  • Production change control
  • Incident response
  • Data integrity and operational risk
  • Experience operating in regulated or audit-bound environments (SOC 2-like rigor is a strong positive)

Nice To Have

  • Insurance, fintech, or government-adjacent systems
  • Cloud + legacy hybrid environments
  • Transitioning teams through role ambiguity and operating-model change
  • Prior responsibility spanning engineering + DevOps + platform operations
  • Hands-on experience with large, high-transaction data systems, including RDBMS-centric architectures (Oracle strongly preferred)

Technical Skills

  • Experience designing systems that fully exploit the benefits of AI, leveraging agentic workflows, AI orchestration, prompt and context engineering, RAG, and MCP
  • Evaluate architectural tradeoffs objectively
  • Ask the right technical questions of tech leads
  • Understand database-centric performance and scalability drivers
  • Participate meaningfully in risk, incident, and readiness discussions
  • Leadership Skills
  • Actively hires and upskills talent to thrive in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, normalizing AI-assisted development as a baseline expectation
  • Creates autonomy through clarity, not control
  • Exercises strong judgment in delegation, intentionally deciding when to lead, when to empower, and when to step in
  • Is comfortable with tech leads owning design and implementation while providing constraints, risk signals, and organizational context
  • Expectations are misaligned
  • Authority boundaries are shifting
  • Organizational memory is inconsistent
  • Actively coach and develop senior engineers
  • Recognize burnout and sustainability risks early
  • Be able to "manage up" without becoming adversarial
  • Communicate candidly but with emotional intelligence
  • Operational Excellence
  • Turning ambiguity into minimal, visible operating guideposts
  • Maintaining forward motion when priorities compete
  • Balancing long-term platform health against short-term delivery pressure
  • Coordinating across product, DevOps, security, and compliance without creating friction

Responsibilities

  • They are a force-multiplier development manager who:
  • Leads engineering teams that have fully embraced AI tooling as a first-class part of the SDLC
  • Stabilizes and scales complex, compliance-sensitive platforms
  • Enables strong tech lead autonomy without losing accountability
  • Translates ambiguous organizational intent into clear guardrails, priorities, and operating norms
  • Drives delivery across product, engineering, DevOps, and compliance

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