Engineering Manager: Scalable Software & Azure Leader

alexleecareers-alexlee; Christiansburg (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

alexleecareers-alexlee is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering robust, scalable software solutions. You will drive Agile practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, architecture, and IT stakeholders to align delivery with business priorities.

The role requires a strong technical background in cloud architectures, Microsoft Azure services, DevOps pipelines, APIs and microservices, plus proven leadership in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Proven experience leading software development teams.
• Strong background in software development processes and Azure.
• Hands-on with Azure services (App Services, Functions, Storage, Azure SQL) and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, and cloud-based architecture patterns.
• Elasticsearch experience a plus.
• Strong communication and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Managing the life cycle of software projects and solutions.
• Collaborate with the product owner to manage the product backlog exercising ownership of the technical features in the backlog.
• Manage the software development methodology and practices.
• Collaborate with the product owner to convert the business requirements to technical requirements.
• Maintain the technical roadmap for the solutions for which my team owns technical responsibility.
• Prioritize technical roadmap features.
• Collaborate with project managers to determine the level of effort and estimates on incoming projects and/or feature requests and to ensure timely publication of status reports on active projects.
• Ensuring there is 24/7 support for products that fall within the team's technical ownership.
• Manage application architecture, software design, and database design.
• Manage the release cycle.
• Accept and implement work items from the product backlog and develop POC (proof of concept) code.
• Ensure code review processes are occurring on agreed upon cadence and actively participate in the meetings.
• Mentor development team toward higher software development expertise and efficiency.
• Identify and eliminate roadblocks or friction points in the team's development cycle to continually improve productivity.
• Contribute to the definition of software development standards.
• Contribute to the definition of software development team best practices.
• Contribute to IT strategy and planning on request.
• Ensuring that the set of the organization's documentation standard is met and is maintained throughout the lifetime of the product.
• Manage communication with product stakeholders on development status, technical risks, and technical opportunities.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and other cross-functional IT teams to ensure resources required by the product architecture are provisioned.
• Review and approve the timesheets of direct reports.
• Collaborate with direct reports to establish yearly job and career goals ensuring they meet the expectations of the current position and the direct report's desired career path.
• Conduct performance reviews.
• Collaborate with developers and managers across IT in the hiring process to build development teams with the capacity and capabilities required to meet the organization's development objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud computing

Azure

Azure DevOps

APIs

Microservices

Elasticsearch

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Master’s preferred

Tools

Azure DevOps

APIs

Microservices

Elasticsearch

Cloud architecture

Job description

alexleecareers-alexlee is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering robust, scalable software solutions. You will drive Agile practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, architecture, and IT stakeholders to align delivery with business priorities.

The role requires a strong technical background in cloud architectures, Microsoft Azure services, DevOps pipelines, APIs and microservices, plus proven leadership in fast-paced environments.