Software Engineering Manager

GM Financial•Arlington, TX

13h•Hybrid

About The Position

Innovation is central to GM Financial Technology, where teams build solutions using generative AI, cloud-native technologies, and peer-led learning. The company is committed to AI-powered transformation, leveraging advanced machine learning and automation to redefine customer interactions and modernize operations, aiming to be a leader in digital innovation. This role offers a chance to make a global impact, with a focus on ideas and development. The Software Engineering Manager leads a team of software engineers, overseeing projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery, meeting requirements, and scalability. This role also involves defining product strategy and contributing to team development. As a technical manager, the individual sets expectations for quality product delivery and timely solutions, promotes process improvement and best practices, and refines technical architecture through continuous refactoring and incorporation of modern engineering tools. As a people manager, the role involves investing in team members' technical and soft skills, celebrating successes, identifying learning opportunities, promoting collaboration, effective hiring, managing performance, and providing constant feedback to foster leadership. As a servant leader, the manager inspires, motivates, and enables the team by removing impediments, focusing on the product's strategic direction, architectural decisions, and necessary tools and skills.

Requirements

Experience in software development consisting of architecture and implementing through code
Advanced knowledge of business processes for supported business groups
Advanced knowledge of information technology systems, infrastructure, and operations
Advanced working knowledge of information systems and operations systems for supported business groups
Knowledgeable of best practices in information technology governance and regulatory landscape for financial institutions
Significant experience in a large and complex business environment
Superior organizational skills in planning and prioritizing own workload and initiatives
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical terminology to people with limited or no technical understanding
Proactive and solutions driven with a high level of attention to detail
Lead through influence, inspiration, collaboration and teamwork
Present team strategies and accomplishments to senior executives and peers
Establish strong working relationships and build trust with peers and business partners
Oversee platform definition, software architecture, and tool selection
Champion and execute strategies that deliver measurable business value
Establish strong working relationships and build trust with peers
Listen actively and communicate effectively with others both orally and in writing
Apply creative thinking and negotiations skills to develop solutions that are acceptable to different needs
Ability to accept change and to adapt to shifting organizational challenges and priorities
Ability to coach, develop and lead others
Analytical and troubleshooting skills
Strong interpersonal, verbal and written skills
Ability to evaluate problems and issues quickly and to make recommendations for courses of action
Ability to manage multiple tasks at one time while remaining cool under pressure
Advanced ability to analyze problems, correlate data from multiple sources and communicate pertinent information to the appropriate support teams
Present team strategies and accomplishments to senior executives and peers
Ability to take raw product requirements and develop software architectures and designs to bring them to life
Demonstrated expertise in the following technologies may be required for the product being developed: Low-code environments: Logic Apps, Enterprise Service Bus: Tibco BusinessWorks (APIs and integration workflows), Pipeline Automation: Azure DevOps (YAML, ARM), Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Octopus Deploy, Code Scanning: SonarQube, Checkmarx, Source Code repos: Git, Mobile: Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Forms, UI: Angular, Javascript, CSS, Node.js, ASP.NET MVC, High level programming languages: Java, C# (.NET MVC and .NET Core), Go, Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL (e.g. CosmosDB), Test Automation: Xamarin.UITest, Specflow, DevTest, Selenium, Test Data Manager, Postman, Maven, TestNG, JMeter, Operating systems: Windows, Linux
8-10 years of experience in software development required
High School Diploma or equivalent required

Nice To Haves

Experience leading software development projects preferred
Experience leading people preferred
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field; and/or commensurate experience preferred

Responsibilities

Lead the team to build the next generation of modern applications, platforms and services by providing technical expertise throughout the software development lifecycle
Communicate a plan for the budget, resources, and tools required to support the business and evolve the product, then execute the plan
Establish relevant learning plans that grow the team professionally and technically
Motivate the team to share ideas and learnings to promote innovation and generate excitement within the team
Take an active role in defining metrics that measure our ability to deliver on business and service level objectives; use the metrics to improve the process and product
As a servant leader, work closely with the team to anticipate and remove impediments
Review test plans and results providing guidance with the development of test plans to assist the business with development of user acceptance criteria
Develop relationships with our Business Operations partners and regularly update them with what is transpiring related to automation