Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Connect Tech+Talent is seeking a Senior Manager for Software Engineering, primarily focused on leading engineering delivery and execution across multiple client engagements. The role involves managing teams, ensuring high-quality delivery, and building AI-driven applications while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end engineering execution across multiple concurrent client engagements
- Translate client requirements and discovery outputs into technical designs and deliverables
- Drive predictable, high-quality delivery against committed scope, timelines, and budgets
- Ensure adherence to:
- Code quality standards
- Testing strategies
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevOps practices
- Conduct system design reviews to ensure scalability, security, and alignment with each client's architecture Client & Business Partnership
- Partner with clients and business analysts to:
- Understand client business and operational needs
- Refine problem statements from discovery into buildable scope
- Influence and shape technical solutions
- Provide visibility into:
- Scope
- Effort and estimates
- Trade-offs
- Resource needs
- Support prioritization and proposal decisions based on:
- Client business value and ROI
- Technical feasibility
- Delivery timelines and margin
- Build and deliver AI-driven applications and automation solutions for clients
- Work hands-on with:
- Generative AI (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude)
- AI agents and agentic workflows
- Machine learning components
- Contribute to solutions for:
- Operations optimization (warehouse, store, and back-office)
- Document and data intelligence
- Employee productivity and workflow automation
- Champion AI-assisted development practices (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) across the engineering team
- Ensure delivered systems are production-ready and highly reliable
- Lead engineering teams in:
- Managed support of client platforms
- Incident management within client SLAs
- Root cause analysis (RCA)
- Define and track:
- System reliability metrics
- Performance benchmarks
- Delivery KPIs (velocity, cycle time, defect rates)
- Improve system resilience through:
- Monitoring and alerting
- Observability practices
- Continuous improvement
- Lead and grow a team of software engineers and technical leads
- Drive:
- Hiring
- Onboarding
- Mentorship
- Performance management
- Foster a culture of:
- Accountability and client ownership
- Innovation
- Continuous learning
- Enable teams through:
- Clear delegation
- Documentation
- Tooling and development frameworks
- Champion Agile/Lean methodologies adapted to client engagements
- Facilitate:
- Sprint planning
- Stand-ups
- Retrospectives
- Release management
- Coordinate across engagements through cross-team planning and resource balancing
- Drive efficiency for and its clients through:
- Automation
- Tooling improvements
- Process optimization
- Lead cost optimization efforts:
- Cloud cost management (Azure)
- Infrastructure efficiency
- Licensing optimization
- Ensure adherence to:
- Security standards (client-specific)
- Compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, client regulatory frameworks)
- Data governance and client data-handling practices
Skills
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Experience leading teams of 5+ engineers, ideally in a consulting or client-services environment
- Strong expertise in: Microservices and cloud-native architecture
- Data structures & algorithms
- Cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP a plus)
- Distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with: Generative AI / AI-enabled development
- CI/CD tools (Git, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Messaging and integration platforms (e.g., Kafka, Azure Service Bus)
- Excellent client-facing communication and presentation skills
Company Overview
Connect Tech+Talent is a Global Technology Partner which brings together highly qualified technology professionals with great companies. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.connecttechtalent.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Connect Tech+Talent has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.