Senior Manager - Enterprise Application Engineering

Bealls, Inc.; Brandenton Beach (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Bealls Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager- Enterprise Application Engineering to lead our enterprise application development organization.

You will drive a cloud-native Azure architecture and an AI-augmented software development lifecycle, owning delivery, capacity, quality, and partner management across all business areas. You will build new capabilities while modernizing the existing portfolio, keeping it secure and scalable, with strong emphasis on governance, performance, and collaboration

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with leadership experience
• Deep, hands-on experience in the .NET/C# ecosystem across modern and older frameworks
• Proven delivery on Microsoft Azure — compute, integration, IaC, and CI/CD
• Experience leading delivery across multiple concurrent teams or product lines
• Experience designing or delivering integration/messaging architectures (pub/sub, event-driven) and migrating off legacy ETL tooling
• Track record modernizing or maintaining an established application portfolio while shipping new capabilities
• Experience managing external delivery partners alongside full-time staff
• Strong architecture and technical judgment; able to communicate decisions to engineers and executives

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers and engineering managers across the application development organization
• Own hiring, performance management, and career development for the team
• Set technical direction and foster a collaborative, standards-driven engineering culture
• Own capacity planning and resource allocation across concurrent product lines
• Run agile delivery — sprint planning, execution, and release management
• Own production support, service-level commitments, and incident escalation for the application portfolio
• Set and enforce standards for code quality, testing, security, and observability
• Direct external delivery partners on scope, quality, throughput, and skills mix
• Deliver cloud-native applications on Azure across web, mobile (.NET MAUI) and handheld/PDA surfaces
• Drive integration architecture toward Azure-based patterns and retire legacy ETL tooling
• Keep the established .NET and C# portfolio stable, secure, and modernized
• Make sound architecture decisions in partnership with leadership and domain teams
• Guide delivery of AI applications with grounding, access control, and human-in-the-loop review
• Apply AI across the software development lifecycle to relieve capacity and delivery timelines

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Azure

.NET/C#

CI/CD

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

.NET MAUI

Job description

WHY JOIN BEALLS?

At Bealls Inc., we've built our business around bringing brands, style and value to families while creating exceptional experiences for our guests for 111 years. A family-owned company with more than 660 stores across 23 states, we have remained true to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and commitment to serving communities across the country.

WHY JOIN BEALLS?

At Bealls Inc., we've built our business around bringing brands, style and value to families while creating exceptional experiences for our guests for 111 years. A family-owned company with more than 660 stores across 23 states, we have remained true to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and commitment to serving communities across the country. We are a leading off-price retailer with a loyal customer following and growing national presence, providing us a strong foundation for continued success and long-term growth. Talented, dedicated associates are central to everything we accomplish. As our business continues to grow and evolve, we’re creating opportunities for associates to contribute in meaningful ways, build new skills, and grow their careers. We believe great results come from working together. We foster a collaborative environment where associates are empowered to share ideas, collaborate across teams and take ownership of their development. Our leaders are committed to providing support, guidance and opportunities that help people reach their potential.

Function

The Senior Manager- Enterprise Application Engineering leads Bealls’ enterprise application development organization. The role advances a modern, cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure and an AI-augmented software development lifecycle, while owning end-to-end delivery: capacity, execution, quality, support, and partner management across all business areas. It is equally accountable for building new capabilities and for keeping the established application portfolio stable, secure, and progressively modernized.

Interaction

Partners closely with Merchandising, Planning & Allocation, Store Operations, Logistics, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Ecommerce, Data Engineering, Information Technology leadership, and external delivery partners

SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES [ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS]

Team Leadership & People Development

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers and engineering managers across the application development organization
• Own hiring, performance management, and career development for the team
• Set technical direction and foster a collaborative, standards-driven engineering culture

Delivery ManagementCapacity Management —

Own capacity planning and resource allocation across concurrent product lines, balancing new development against the maintenance backlog

Sprint & Delivery Execution —

run agile delivery — sprint planning, execution, and release management — to deliver predictably across all business areas

Support SLAs & Escalation —

Own production support, service-level commitments, and incident escalation for the application portfolio

Quality & Standards —

Set and enforce standards for code quality, testing, security, branch governance, and observability

Vendor Management —

Direct external delivery partners on scope, quality, throughput, and skills mix

Application Engineering & Modernization

• Deliver cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure across web, mobile (.NET MAUI) and handheld/PDA surfaces
• Drive the integration architecture toward Azure-based integrations and a general publish/subscribe pattern, retiring legacy ETL and file-transfer tooling, with transformation localized at the endpoints
• Keep the established .NET and C# application portfolio stable, secure, and supported while looking for opportunities to modernize
• Make sound architecture decisions in partnership with leadership and domain teams

AI-Enabled Delivery

• Guide delivery of AI applications — conversational assistants, retrieval-augmented experiences, and agentic workflows — with appropriate grounding, access control, and human-in-the-loop review
• Apply AI across the software development lifecycle to relieve capacity and delivery-timeline constraints, championing effective, measured use of AI development tools

Other

• Other duties as assigned

QualificationsRequired

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading engineers or engineering managers
• Deep, hands-on-credible experience in the .NET / C# ecosystem across both modern .NET and older framework applications
• Demonstrated delivery on Microsoft Azure — compute, integration, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD
• Demonstrated ability to lead delivery across multiple concurrent teams or product lines, including capacity planning, sprint execution, quality, and production support
• Experience designing or delivering integration / messaging architectures (pub/sub, event-driven, or service-bus) and migrating off legacy ETL tooling
• Track record modernizing or maintaining an established application portfolio while shipping new capabilities in parallel
• Experience managing external delivery partners alongside full-time staff
• Strong architecture and technical judgment; able to communicate decisions to both engineers and executives

Preferred

• Delivery experience with AI/LLM applications — retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, agentic patterns, and AI-in-the-SDLC practices
• Retail, off-price, or merchandising / supply-chain domain exposure
• Familiarity with .NET MAUI or mobile / PDA / handheld delivery for store and warehouse environments
• Exposure to payment-device / PIN PAD applications and the associated security / PCI considerations

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