The Digital S/W Engineer Group Mgr is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.
Responsibilities:
* Design, implement, and deploy software components and solve difficult problems generating positive feedback.
* Effectively coach, help and give feedback to team members.
* Work independently and with team(s) to deliver software product successfully.
* Lead deliveries that are consistently of high quality (secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, etc.) and incorporate best practices.
* Review design and code.
* Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems, identifying and building solutions, taking on projects that improve software, making it better and easier to maintain.
* Make improvements to SDLC processes and be the end-to-end owner for all engineering activities from inception to post-implementation.
* Regularly provide insights, lessons learned, risks and opportunities to senior leaders.
* Manage employees and non-employees.
* Manage team and deliveries to the budget.
Recommended Qualifications:
* 15 or more years of relevant experience in development, delivery, and support of mission critical, customer facing applications progressively as engineer, engineer lead and engineer manager.
* Ability to self-learn new technologies and tools.
* Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Large and Small Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, AI Agents, Agentic AI, Generative AI, Predictive AI.
* Experience in using one or more of Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Devin
* Proficient in many, if not all, of these - React, JavaScript, HTML5, Java, Spring Boot, Python, Solace, MQ, JMS, Spring JPA, Hibernate ORM, JDBC, COBOL, Mainframe, Jenkins, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB.
* Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, and SaaS.
* Experience in design, build, and deployment of APIs & Microservices.
* Experience in BDD and test automation.
* Good knowledge of design patterns.
* Ability to design & build scalable and efficient solutions.
* Experience in Agile & Scrum methodologies.
* Experience in building frameworks and reusable shared components.
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## Education:
* Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
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## Job Family Group:
Technology
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## Job Family:
Digital Software Engineering
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## Time Type:
Full time
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## Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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## Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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