Engineering Manager - Secure SDLC & Agile Delivery

Forvis Mazars US; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 111,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvis Mazars, LLP seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple software product teams within Firm Technology Services. You will drive delivery, governance, and engineering excellence in an Agile, DevOps, and SSDLC environment.

The role requires strong people leadership, deep technical oversight, and collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, and Project Managers to deliver reliable, secure software at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading Agile software development teams.
• Experience developing and supporting enterprise web applications.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, software engineering best practices, and modern development methodologies.
• Experience with Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), DevOps, CI/CD, and Agile delivery practices.
• Experience working with relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server.
• Understanding of cloud-based application development and deployment.
• Experience with source control systems and modern software delivery processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop software engineers and technical leads through coaching, performance management, and career development planning.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Provide oversight for software delivery across one or more product teams while promoting Agile best practices.
• Participate in project planning, estimation, risk identification, and delivery planning activities.
• Monitor team performance and delivery metrics through Jira and other Agile reporting tools.
• Ensure teams deliver software predictably, efficiently, and with high quality.
• Promote sustainable team velocity and timely completion of development initiatives.
• Ensure adherence to SSDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, testing, code review, and security standards.
• Oversee remediation of technical, operational, and security risks impacting software products.
• Participate in architecture and technical design discussions to support scalable, maintainable, reliable, and secure solutions.
• Drive identification and prioritization of technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Champion operational excellence through monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
• Support production issue management, incident response, and continuous improvement of system reliability.
• Partner with Product Managers, Technical Product Owners, Lead Developers, and Project Managers to align priorities and delivery expectations.
• Communicate critical risks, dependencies, and resource needs to technology leadership.

Skills

Agile leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

Mentoring and coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

10+ years of software development experience

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Jira

Microsoft Azure cloud technologies

Job description

Forvis Mazars, LLP seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple software product teams within Firm Technology Services. You will drive delivery, governance, and engineering excellence in an Agile, DevOps, and SSDLC environment.

The role requires strong people leadership, deep technical oversight, and collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, and Project Managers to deliver reliable, secure software at scale.