Manager, Software Engineering (Sales Technology)

Dimensional Fund Advisors•Austin, TX

9d•Remote

About The Position

Dimensional’s Technology Department engineers platforms that power its research-driven financial and technical products. The Manager of Software Engineering leads the team responsible for the client asset reporting platform and the broader Sales Technology application ecosystem. The role oversees the design, development, delivery, modernization, and ongoing support of business-critical platforms serving the Global Client Group, Finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders. This highly visible technical leadership role is accountable for engineering quality, platform reliability, and continuous improvement. The manager guides technical decisions, develops engineering talent, fosters ownership and accountability, and uses measurable outcomes and data-informed decisions to evaluate performance, prioritize investments, and deliver business value. The role includes setting technical direction while remaining sufficiently hands-on to understand the codebase and contribute when needed.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience leading and developing software engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and building technical capability.
Strong software engineering background and technical judgment to guide architecture, engineering practices, operational reliability, and technical tradeoffs.
Working knowledge of AI-assisted software engineering practices and emerging agentic development approaches.
Hands-on development experience with C#/.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, and Snowflake, and the ability and willingness to contribute directly to code when needed.
Experience translating business and product priorities into engineering direction, priorities, and executable plans.
Demonstrated ability to use data and metrics to understand performance, identify opportunities, and inform decisions.
Experience leading teams responsible for production applications, including operational support, reliability, security, and vulnerability management.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including communicating technical topics, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading modernization of established applications, engineering practices, or technology platforms.
Experience managing engineering teams supporting enterprise-scale, business-critical applications.
Experience working in a regulated or highly controlled environment, including security, risk, audit, or compliance considerations.
Experience introducing or scaling AI-assisted and agentic software engineering practices, including establishing usage patterns, guardrails, and measures of impact.
Experience improving DevOps, CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.
Experience with containerized applications and modern application orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
Experience with Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Linux.

Responsibilities

Hire, coach, develop, and hold engineers accountable; build technical capabilities and a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
Set the long-term direction for the team’s technology, architecture, engineering practices, and capabilities, including AI-assisted engineering.
Remain sufficiently hands-on to understand the codebase, contribute when needed, and guide technical decisions.
Use data and measurable outcomes to prioritize work, evaluate tradeoffs, improve team performance, and focus engineering effort on high-value priorities.
Use operational data and engineering metrics to assess system health and improvement opportunities, and ensure applications and services are reliable, supportable, and effectively operated.
Ensure vulnerabilities, technical debt, lifecycle risks, controls, and other engineering risks are understood, prioritized, and addressed.
Provide senior leadership and stakeholders with clear, data-informed visibility into priorities, delivery, performance, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions.