Senior Manager, Software Development

Senior Manager Software Development
Location: Chicago Dallas Houston or New York Hybrid Full-time direct hire
Base salary by office: Chicago $148200 to $211200; Dallas $141400 to $201600; Houston $141400 to $201600; New York $161600 to $230400

About the company
Our client is a firm with offices in Chicago Dallas Houston and New York building out an Azure-based automation platform and the engineering team behind it. The team is growing with a strong focus on mentorship and career growth.

About the role
This role is technical leadership first with people management alongside it. Youll shape the architecture of an event-driven Azure platform backend development and run a team of full-time engineers and contractors from early-career to lead level. Much of the work is net-new so youll also help define how the team is structured and operates as it grows.

What youll do

• Design and evolve a distributed platform on Azure: containerized services asynchronous messaging PostgreSQL Redis and blob storage
• Lead backend development in ( Core APIs Entity Framework Core CQRS-style patterns) and set the bar in code reviews
• Own and improve multi-stage Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for infrastructure container builds and environment deployments
• Improve platform performance cost and operational simplicity
• Manage and mentor engineers grow their cloud skills and delegate so the team owns execution
• Partner with senior leadership and serve as backup to your manager

What you bring

• 10 years in software engineering application development or IT including 6 years of hands-on software engineering with cloud-based applications
• 3 years directly managing and developing software engineering teams
• Experience leading greenfield enterprise-grade application delivery or comparable large-scale work
• Experience React and Azure or comparable technologies
• Ability to mentor engineers on cloud-native patterns distributed systems and cloud architecture
• A strong technical foundation with the judgment to delegate instead of becoming a bottleneck
• Clear communication with senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience with demonstrable cloud architecture expertise
• Authorization to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future

Nice to haves

• 6 years of cloud-native work on Azure; 3 years with Azure Container Apps AKS or similar orchestration
• Production microservices and event-driven systems (Azure Service Bus Event Grid Event Hubs)
• Modern C# 8 TypeScript and Bash or PowerShell
• Docker multi-stage builds Azure Container Registry Bicep or Terraform and Azure networking and data services
• Azure certifications (AZ-400 AZ-305 AZ-204 AZ-104) CSM or SAFe Agilist
• Professional services background (legal financial services accounting or consulting) legal technology or document management and SOC 2 ISO 27001 or GDPR exposure
• Experience leading a team of roughly 10 to 25 engineers

Required Experience:

Senior Manager