Digital Engineering Manager — Hands-On Delivery Lead

EY; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is hiring a Manager in the Service Delivery Center to balance hands-on software engineering with project leadership. You will guide multi-disciplinary teams through design, development, testing, deployment, and production support while staying close to code and technical decisions.

You will coordinate delivery across geographically distributed teams, mentor engineers, manage dependencies and risks, and maintain clear communication with client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, IS, or related field.
• 6+ years of tech software development with lead experience.
• Hands-on Java and Spring Boot coding with microservices.
• Experience with a modern UI framework (Angular/React).
• Cloud platform experience and CI/CD pipelines.
• Agile/Scrum delivery, backlog and release planning.
• Ability to coordinate distributed teams and stakeholder communication.
• Mentorship and coaching of engineers; strong problem solving.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka) and observability (Splunk).
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end software delivery across planning, design, dev, tests, release, and support.
• Remain hands-on with coding, reviews, and issue resolution.
• Guide solution design using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native patterns.
• Plan Agile delivery with backlog refinement, sprint planning, and demos.
• Coordinate cross-geo teams, ensure ownership and timely decisions.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical coaching and feedback.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, DevOps, and client stakeholders.
• Monitor scope, schedule, quality, risks, and delivery metrics; report progress.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Angular/React

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Agile/Scrum

Distributed teams

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apache Kafka

Hadoop

Apache Spark

Apache Flink

Splunk

Job description

EY is hiring a Manager in the Service Delivery Center to balance hands-on software engineering with project leadership. You will guide multi-disciplinary teams through design, development, testing, deployment, and production support while staying close to code and technical decisions.

You will coordinate delivery across geographically distributed teams, mentor engineers, manage dependencies and risks, and maintain clear communication with client stakeholders.