Senior Manager – Technology, API Platform

Role Overview

• Own delivery and execution for API platform outcomes, ensuring alignment to leadership direction—including priorities, and architectural guardrails.
• Use your deep understanding of business processes to shape technology strategies, helping create business cases, cost/benefit analyses, and roadmaps that support organizational objectives.
• Scan the market for modern tools and capabilities, leading RFPs, project charters, and business cases that bring innovation to life.
• Mentor, guide, and elevate your team through ongoing coaching, performance conversations, and skill building opportunities that cultivate a high-performing engineering culture.
• Foster a culture grounded in quality, agility, and continuous learning—encouraging your team to explore emerging technologies and modern software development practices.
• Lead engineering initiatives, oversee technical requirements, and support continuous delivery teams to ensure strong execution across products and platforms, including scalable, secure APIs built in C#/.NET on Azure (GraphQL for reads and REST for writes).
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to embed agile principles, streamline processes, and align product and technology lifecycle outcomes.
• Advance quality across the software lifecycle—from requirements to code standards to CI/CD automation— including consistency in API contracts, versioning, error handling, performance, and backward compatibility.
• Partner with business units to connect technology capabilities with strategic, operational, and tactical priorities.
• Participate in business and tech governance forums, lending your expertise to planning cycles and initiative reviews.
• Contribute to operational plans and ensure new or evolving initiatives have full financial planning, including infrastructure considerations.
• Review SOWs and contracts while guiding external partners to deliver value across assigned projects and workstream.

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Typically requires 3 years of people leader experience.
• Experience leading technology teams.
• Typically requires 5 years of information technology experience with demonstrated expertise in application design and API driven or integration focused architectures.
• Previous work experience building technology platforms and teams preferably in environments leveraging modern APIs, microservices, cloud native services, or integration frameworks.
• Domain experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Infrastructure/Operations and/or financial products experience (i.e. Credit Card, Mortgage, Auto Loan, Deposits, etc.)

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• ERP
• GraphQL
• Microservices
• .NET

Benefits

• 401(k) Company Match (up to 3%)
• 4% annual contribution to your 401(k) by BECU
• Medical, Dental and Vision (family contributions as well)
• PTO Program + Exchange Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• BECU Cares volunteer time off + donation match