Sr. Manager Software Engineering

O'Reilly Auto Parts; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Paid time off

Stock purchase plan

401k with employer contributions

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Tuition assistance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

O'Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Sr Manager, Software Engineering to lead a on-site Springfield, MO team. The role drives strategy, architecture, and delivery of high‑quality software across platforms, while aligning with IT standards and budgets.

The ideal candidate will have extensive SDLC experience, strong leadership, and the ability to coach engineers, manage roadmaps, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 10–15 years of experience in software engineering.
• 3–6 years of managerial experience leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide and lead team in strategic discussions and technical development.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to design technology solutions.
• Ensure adherence to software engineering best practices across the team.
• Implement and monitor quality assurance initiatives and improvements.
• Improve reliability and proactively remediate software issues.
• Develop long-term schedules and coordinate dependencies across teams.
• Define and maintain a technology roadmap aligned with business needs.
• Evaluate external developments and assess impact on the organization.
• Manage performance objectives and development of team members.
• Communicate strategy and motivate team to achieve goals.
• Manage budgets and report variances with leadership guidance.
• Identify skill gaps and implement development plans for staff.
• Coach and mentor others to support talent growth.

Skills

SDLC

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Technical coaching

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level

Tools

AWS

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Sr Manager, Software Engineering

This is an on-site position located in Springfield, MO. Remote work is not an option for this position.

Responsibilities And Duties

• Guide and lead team in strategic discussion and technical developments recommendations to improve quality of software solutions and supporting infrastructure to better meet users’ needs.
• Drive effective cross-functional team collaboration to conceptualize technology solutions and services, leveraging data to drive original design ideas and decisions.
• Ensure software engineering team is adhering to software development best practices to analyze, design, develop, test, and implement high quality technology solutions that meet the needs of the business. This includes alignment with IT standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Implement and drive adherence to quality assurance change initiatives. Foster an environment that encourages team to continually review and improve operational improvements.
• Ensure reliability and resiliency in supported technology portfolios by implementing appropriate tools and procedures to monitor, identify, and proactively remediate software stability issues before causing customer impact.
• Develop complex, long-term work schedules that enable the organization to achieve its business goals. Involves coordinating and planning dependencies across multiple teams to enable prioritized delivery of initiatives across the technology portfolio.
• Define and maintain a technology roadmap to facilitate application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized across both technical and business needs.
• Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Ensure the performance of skilled technical resources within the department or area of responsibility is appropriately being managed and developed through setting appropriate performance objectives for direct/indirect reports and holding individuals Team Members accountable for achieving them. Ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken, where necessary, to ensure the achievement of committed objectives.
• Clearly articulate and outline the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and technology strategy within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate Team Members to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve area goals and commitments.
• Support the development and management of labor, software, and outside service budgets and work with leadership to report variances and make recommendations where necessary.
• Evaluate the capabilities of Team Members within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implement formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility.
• Coach and mentor others to support the continued talent grown and development of the team.

Skills

Required:

• Understands and applies the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and maintenance, to effectively develop high quality software solutions.
• Effectively plan, organize, prioritize and oversee activities to efficiently meet objectives.
• Assimilates and understands data and information from various sources in order to draw appropriate conclusions and make relevant recommendations.
• Understands business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business.
• Envisions and documents the future state of processes and technology by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, technology, organization infrastructure, and capabilities to achieve the desired future state.
• Creates clear, comprehensive, and effective, documentation and analysis that convey complex technical concepts, using documentation tools to craft structured and visually appealing content that meets the intended purposes. Provides technical guidance and leadership to team.
• Develops software through use of various programming languages, tools and platforms.
• Guides team on overall understanding, deployment, and management of cloud-based infrastructure and services.
• Provides guidance on the design, execution and reporting on systems/service tests to ensure that applications functions as specified in the requirements.
• Reviews and evaluates recommendations and requirements to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Builds the structure and culture of the project team, and defines roles and responsibilities within that structure to enable the achievement of project mission and objectives and the effective operation of key business processes.
• Identifies, sequences, and resources project schedules for timely completion.
• Plans, identifies, monitors, analyzes, and prioritizes risks, threats, and opportunities to create response plans, and manage the risk if it occurs.
• Ensures that Team members at all levels in the organization possess and develop the skills knowledge and experiences needed to fulfill the short-term and long-term ambitions of the organization and that they are motivated to learn, grow and develop.
• Expresses ideas, requests action, formulates plans, and policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications.
• Shifts into and out of a mental mindset associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment, and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario.

Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level

Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (10 years to 15 years)

Managerial Experience: Experience planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (3 to 6 years)

O’Reilly Auto Parts has a proven track record of growth and stability. O’Reilly is full of successful career stories and believes in a strong promote-from-within philosophy, encouraging you to grow your career along with the organization.

Total Compensation Package

• Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
• Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs
• Tuition Educational Assistance Programs
• Opportunities for Career Growth

O’Reilly Auto Parts is an equal opportunity employer.

The Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin or ancestry (including immigration status or citizenship), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions,) age (40 and over), veteran status, uniformed service member status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or another protected status as defined by local, state, or federal law, as applicable.

Qualified individuals with a disability may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or employment process, please send an email to: [e-mail] or call [phone] option , and provide your requested accommodation, and position details.