Senior Software Manager, Java

Role Overview

• Provide senior level technical leadership and architectural oversight for complex, enterprise scale platforms.
• Lead architecture design sessions and design reviews, ensuring alignment to non functional requirements including availability, scalability, performance, resiliency, and security.
• Guide teams on architectural tradeoffs and implementation approaches to ensure long term maintainability and operational stability.
• Lead technical direction for teams building highly scalable, event driven systems using modern data streaming, container, and cloud native technologies.
• Translate complex technical concepts, risks, and options into clear, business focused communication for senior leadership and executive audiences.
• Comfortably present to senior leadership and C level stakeholders, representing technical strategy, delivery status, risks, and investment needs.
• Provide strategic oversight for the design, development, and continuous enhancement of the platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.
• Manage and lead development efforts for a modern, cloud native technology ecosystem leveraging cutting edge platforms and technologies, including containerized microservices, event driven architectures (Kafka), and NoSQL data stores (MongoDB), deployed on OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Oversee and coordinate delivery across multiple scrum teams simultaneously, managing dependencies, release planning, and execution risks.
• Drive adoption and maturity of Agile, DevSecOps, and reliability practices, balancing delivery speed with quality, security, and compliance requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a global organization of engineers, technical leads, business systems analysts, and vendor partners.
• Own talent strategy including hiring, coaching, performance management, and development of future technical leaders.
• Foster a culture of transparent, honest, and respectful communication, ensuring clarity and trust both upward to leadership and downward to teams.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for platform issues and major incidents, ensuring effective resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with information security, infrastructure, and compliance teams to ensure platforms meet regulatory, audit, and risk management expectations.
• Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to translate strategy into executable technology roadmaps.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or application management.
• 3+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership or people management role.
• Strong technical background in Java based platforms, microservices architecture, enterprise integration, and cloud native deployments (OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed teams and managing delivery across multiple agile teams.
• Proven ability to lead architecture discussions and influence technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive leadership.
• Experience supporting payments platforms or payment processing systems in a regulated financial services environment.
• Experience working in large scale enterprise or financial services organizations.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• MongoDB
• NoSQL
• OpenShift

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• robust wellness program with financial incentives