Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Part Time -16 to 20 hours a week) - C2H

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

Requirements:

• 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