Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Overview

Sr Manager, Software Engineering Management at Cox Automotive responsible for leading multiple engineering development teams across application and data disciplines, delivering customer‑facing SaaS products and analytics. Hybrid work option; ability to work remotely part of the week.

Compensation

Base salary $148,500.00 – $247,500.00, plus incentive program potential.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering development teams, manage managers and senior engineers.
• Plan short‑term and long‑term initiatives, including quarterly and annual team plans and large‑scale projects.
• Mentor and develop teams, foster innovation and high‑quality service.
• Prioritize requirements, create roadmap, and make trade‑off decisions.
• Define and track success metrics: delivery reliability, defect rates, customer adoption, operational health.
• Contribute to staffing strategy and organizational design.
• Engage with internal and external clients as technical advisor.
• Manage budget, vendor expenses, and agreements; act as product evangelist.
• Own engineering delivery in high‑traffic Xtime product areas impacting pricing, parts, and integration.
• Evaluate system impact and downstream dependencies across products and partner ecosystems.
• Establish and mature data engineering function alongside application teams.
• Design, build, deploy, and operate data solutions: real‑time and batch pipelines, dimensional models, secure data access layers.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Data, and external partners to balance delivery and foundational data platform needs.
• Drive adoption of AI‑assisted and spec‑driven development practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years of experience, or equivalent combinations as described.
• 4+ years production operations of cloud‑native SaaS platforms on AWS (EKS, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager) with Terraform/Terragrunt IaC.
• 4+ years with Java/Spring Boot applications at scale and modern web front‑ends.
• Experience with modern data warehouse and pipeline solutions (Snowflake or equivalent, CDC, ELT, dimensional modeling).
• Experience managing multi‑tenant, multi‑partner integrations and data isolation.
• Strong observability and resiliency practices: APM, structured logging, on‑call rotations, readiness reviews, SLO‑based health management.
• Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills.
• Experience managing teams in regulated, customer‑facing SaaS environment with release cadence and escalation paths.
• Experience building new functions, hiring plans, operating models, and success metrics.
• Cross‑functional partnership with Product, Architecture, DBA, QE, Data Governance, and external partners.
• Experience with Agile Release Train: backlog planning, KTLO vs investment prioritization, delivery traceability.
• Preferred: enterprise data catalog tools (Collibra), legacy reporting platform modernization, BI/analytics for dealer/OEM environments, AI‑assisted engineering workflows.

Drug Testing

Pre‑employment drug test required; marijuana testing not administered, but drug‑free workplace policy applies.

Benefits

• Paid vacation as per duties and company needs; seven paid holidays; up to 160 hours paid wellness annually.
• Additional paid time off: bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, parental leave.
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)).

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability unless it would cause undue hardship.