Manager, Product Software Engineering

C T Corporation System (DE); Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

C T Corporation System (DE) is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive execution across multiple teams, aligning product strategy with technology initiatives. You will foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement while guiding modernization efforts, AI-driven SDLC practices, and platform engineering.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure, and maintainable software delivery, with strong executive communication and stakeholder alignment in a large enterprise context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on delivery of enterprise and SaaS applications.
• 5+ years of experience managing and mentoring engineers while remaining directly involved in software development and technical delivery.
• Advanced proficiency with C#, modern .NET, Angular, TypeScript, REST API development, and RDBMS databases (SQL Server, Oracle).
• Experience with Azure and cloud-native development, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams across products, platforms, and technology initiatives.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Own execution of engineering roadmaps and strategic initiatives across multiple teams.
• Drive predictable delivery by implementing planning disciplines, dependency management, risk mitigation, and outcome-based tracking.
• Establish metrics and operational reviews for delivery quality, velocity, productivity, reliability, and customer impact.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

C#

.NET

Angular

TypeScript

REST APIs

SQL Server

Oracle

Cloud-native

Microservices

CI/CD

DevOps

Architecture

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams across products, platforms, and technology initiatives.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Create an environment that encourages experimentation, learning, and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Own execution of engineering roadmaps and strategic initiatives across multiple teams.
• Drive predictable delivery by implementing planning disciplines, dependency management, risk mitigation, and outcome‑based tracking.
• Establish metrics and operational reviews for delivery quality, velocity, productivity, reliability, and customer impact.
• Partner with Product and Business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and balance strategic investments with operational commitments.
• Ensure engineering teams consistently deliver secure, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
• Partner with Product Architects and Technical Leads to guide engineering solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support modernization initiatives involving cloud-native architectures, APIs, platforms, data services, AI capabilities, and distributed systems.
• Influence technical strategy, platform investments, and engineering standards across teams.
• Promote engineering best practices in software design, architecture, testing, observability, security, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Champion automation across development, testing, deployment, operations, and support processes.
• Ensure technical debt management and platform sustainability remain part of engineering planning.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, UX, QA, Security, DevOps, and Business stakeholders.
• Translate business objectives into executable engineering plans and measurable outcomes.
• Drive alignment across geographically distributed teams and organizational boundaries.
• Influence decisions at leadership levels through data-driven recommendations and clear communication.

AI-Driven Engineering & Developer Productivity

• Drive adoption of AI-first software engineering practices across the SDLC.
• Champion AI-assisted development tools including GitHub Copilot, agentic development platforms, automated code reviews, AI-powered testing, and engineering intelligence solutions.
• Promote Spec-Driven Development methodologies and AI-Oriented SDLC practices to improve delivery predictability and quality.
• Leverage engineering metrics, analytics, and AI insights to optimize productivity, code quality, system performance, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to accelerate product development and engineering effectiveness.

Required Skills & Experience

• Engineering & Technology
• Extensive experience leading software engineering organizations delivering enterprise-scale products and platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on delivery of enterprise and SaaS applications.
• 5+ years of experience managing and mentoring engineers while remaining directly involved in software development and technical delivery.
• Advanced proficiency and hands-on experience with C#, modern .NET, Angular, TypeScript, REST API development, RDBMS databases (SQL Server, Oracle).
• Strong understanding of modern application architecture, cloud-native development, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform engineering.
• Experience with Azure .
• Experience driving DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience managing modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across complex organizations.
• Experience balancing strategic planning with ope