Manager of Software Engineering

HealthEquity is dedicated to saving and improving lives by empowering healthcare consumers. The Manager of Software Engineering is a hands-on technical leader responsible for building, modernizing, and operating software solutions for the COBRA platform, ensuring platform stability and executing a long-term modernization strategy using Agentic AI.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a blended onshore and offshore engineering team, remain hands-on in technical decision-making, and turn business and regulatory requirements into clear, executable technical outcomes
• Balance day-to-day platform operations with longer-term modernization efforts, embedding Agentic AI into how the team builds, tests, modernizes, and supports software
• Remain hands-on with system design, architecture, code reviews, and complex problem solving across the application stack
• Lead the technical modernization of the COBRA platform, balancing near-term regulatory and operational commitments with long-term architectural health
• Define, sequence, and execute a pragmatic modernization roadmap, applying incremental modernization patterns while maintaining production stability
• Ensure engineering practices meet HealthEquity standards for code quality, security, performance, test automation, and maintainability
• Oversee the design and governance of data warehouse solutions that support COBRA platform reporting, compliance, and operational analytics needs
• Lead the evaluation, optimization, and modernization of SSIS/SSRS/ETL jobs, ensuring reliable, auditable data movement across source systems, staging layers, and reporting environments
• Embed Agentic AI into software development and support workflows to accelerate: Legacy code comprehension and documentation, Test design, automation, and maintenance, Refactoring and modernization efforts, Production support, incident analysis, and defect resolution
• Ensure AI usage is secure, compliant, auditable, and aligned with enterprise governance
• Set expectations that AI is a force multiplier for disciplined engineers, not a substitute for sound technical judgment or accountability
• Lead, coach, and develop a hybrid onshore and offshore engineering team, establishing clear roles, ownership boundaries, and performance expectations
• Own sprint execution, capacity planning, and throughput, ensuring effective utilization of internal teams and vendor partners
• Provide clear technical direction, unblock delivery risks, pressure-test estimates, and ensure predictable execution against commitments
• Foster a culture of accountability, technical rigor, continuous improvement, and professional growth
• Maintain shared accountability for production stability, availability, and performance of COBRA platform
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews, ensuring corrective actions are identified and implemented
• Ensure operational readiness, monitoring, documentation, and support handoffs meet HealthEquity standards
• Balance delivery velocity with operational risk management in a regulated environment
• Partner closely with Product and Business stakeholders to align technical plans with business priorities and regulatory obligations
• Collaborate with Architecture, Security, and Compliance to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and risk policies
• Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and outcomes clearly to leadership and stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands‑on work in complex or legacy systems
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role (Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer)
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams while remaining technically credible and engaged
• Experience working effectively with globally distributed and offshore delivery teams
• Background as a Principal or Staff Engineer transitioning into people leadership
• Experience modernizing legacy, regulated platforms (financial services, benefits administration, insurance, healthcare)
• Strong experience with enterprise application stacks (e.g., .NET, Java, relational databases, batch and integration patterns)
• Practical experience applying AI‑assisted or agent‑based development practices in real engineering environments
• Experience with data warehouse architecture and data modeling in support of regulated reporting and operational analytics
• Proficiency with SSIS for enterprise data integration, including design of complex ETL workflows, error handling strategies, and deployment across environments
• Experience building and maintaining SSRS reports and data sources in an enterprise setting, with an understanding of report performance, security, and lifecycle management
• Familiarity with ETL modernization approaches, including assessment of legacy SSIS workloads for migration to cloud-based or modern integration platforms