Enterprise Observability Manager

Regions Bank; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Vacation/Sick Time

401K with Company Match

Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

Disability Benefits

Life Insurance

Job summary

Regions Bank is seeking a Software Engineer Manager to oversee application development within a department. The role requires managing system design, development, deployment, and maintenance across application systems, ensuring compliance and risk controls.

The position emphasizes leading teams, coordinating with TODD, and delivering technology solutions that improve internal processes and support business opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Six years of relevant experience.
• Experience as a team leader.
• Experience in banking or financial services is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manages all aspects of system design, development, deployment, acquisition, and ongoing maintenance for all application systems within areas of responsibility.
• Develops technology solutions that increase efficiency of internal business functions and support business opportunities.
• Creates and refines operational processes to ensure regulatory and audit compliance.
• Plans, designs, develops, and verifies lifecycle balanced system solutions.
• Defines system performance requirements by evaluating customer and operational needs.
• Supports planning, organization, implementation, and monitoring of requirements through management processes.
• Partners with TODD to ensure controls are designed, implemented, and monitored to strengthen risk management and cyber security.
• Ensures disciplined change management by evaluating risk and control impacts when changes are made.

Skills

Team leadership

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Analytical reasoning

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

None

Job description

Thank you for your interest in a career at Regions. At Regions, we believe associates deserve more than just a job. We believe in offering performance-driven individuals a place where they can build a career --- a place to expect more opportunities. If you are focused on results, dedicated to quality, strength and integrity, and possess the drive to succeed, then we are your employer of choice.

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Job Description

At Regions, the Software Engineer Manager oversees application development for a department or group within the company.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manages all aspects of system design, development, deployment, acquisition, and ongoing maintenance for all application systems within areas of responsibility
• Develops technology solutions that increase the efficiency of internal business functions, resolves business problems, and supports the pursuit of business opportunities for areas of responsibility
• Creates and refines operational processes and systems to ensure effective regulatory and audit compliance
• Applies an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop, and verify basic lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions
• Evaluates customer and operational needs to define system performance requirements, integrates technical parameters, and assures compatibility of all interfaces
• Supports the planning, organization, implementation, and monitoring of requirements through management processes
• Partners across Technology, Operations, Digital, and Data (TODD) to ensure controls are designed, implemented, and monitored to strengthen risk management, compliance, and cyber security, effectively mitigating risk to levels within the company’s risk appetite
• Ensures disciplined change management by evaluating risk and control impacts when designing or implementing changes to processes, systems, products, and/or services

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

This position is incentive eligible.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Six (6) years of relevant experience
• Experience as a team leader

Preferences

• Experience in a Technology role in banking or a financial services industry

Skills And Competencies

• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and conceptual skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Understanding of and ability to interpret applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance

Additional Preferences

• 7+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing engineering, observability, platform, SRE, or IT operations teams within a large enterprise environment.

Design and implement enterprise observability solutions across applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, APIs, and business-critical services.

• Establish end-to-end visibility into customer journeys and business processes, aligning technology performance with customer experience and business outcomes.
• Define and manage service health frameworks, including SLIs, SLOs, reliability metrics, and service dependency mapping.
• Lead AIOps and operational intelligence initiatives, including predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, event correlation, and automated remediation capabilities.
• Develop executive dashboards and analytics that provide insights into service health, availability, customer impact, operational risk, and business performance.
• Partner with Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, Security, Product, and Business teams to improve reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Support major incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts through observability and operational analytics.
• Experience with enterprise observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Elastic, OpenTelemetry, and cloud technologies including Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Experience building enterprise observability programs, business service monitoring capabilities, and AIOps-driven operational intelligence solutions.

This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations. Regions will not provide relocation assistance for this position, and relocation would be at your expense. The locations available for this role are Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA, Charlotte, NC, with a strong preference for Atlanta.

Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position at this time. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Position Type

Full time

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Minimum

Job Range Target: $136,895.22 USD

Median

$180,232.50 USD

Incentive Pay Plans

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan. Employees are eligible to receive a discretionary award based on individual, business, and/or company performance. Opportunity to participate in the Long Term Incentive Plan.

Benefits Information

Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, which is not intended to be a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time. To learn more about Regions’ benefits, please copy the link below to your browser.

https://www.regions.com/about-regions/welcome-portal/benefits

Location Details

Atlanta Midtown

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.