First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
The Software Engineer Senior Manager is the direct leader of more critical groups with significant responsibilities. These groups may sometimes be more heavily resourced with more senior staff or more staff in general or be responsible for more technically complex or strategically important parts of the architecture or product. Software Engineer Senior Manager are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Software Engineer Senior Manager architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters
- Build foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals
- Manage teams that are responsible for strategic and critical pieces of architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business
- Act as an authority in software best practices and be relied upon to propagate these in the broader organization, beyond their individual team
- Expert ability to view the organization as a whole
- Leverage and influence key stakeholders
Experience:
- 10 or more years of experience Java and Cobol
- Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot, including tooling for documentation (Swagger, REST Docs, OpenAPI spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus
- Hands-on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including microservices architectures
- Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
- Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (MongoDB, caching) and Kafka messaging
- Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (Git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (Maven, Gradle, npm, Artifactory, etc.) and Jenkins or similar continuous integration tools
- Experience of working in an Agile environment or paired programming/engineering model
- Experience with Python is a plus
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job has supervisory duties of up to 5 people.
Skills
COBOL, Java, Spring Boot

