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We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?\nWork Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.\n\nThe Opportunity\nThe Manager - Software Engineering is responsible for the successful delivery, modernization, stability, and continuous improvement for the Ally's critical applications. This role provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams and serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, product management, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and engineering teams.This individual owns end-to-end delivery for a highly integrated enterprise platform built using React, Java Spring Boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS cloud technologies, batch processing frameworks, and event-driven architectures. This individual is accountable for delivery execution, technical design governance, application reliability, operational excellence, modernization initiatives, production support, regulatory compliance, and team development.\nAt this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.\n\nThe Work Itself\nTechnical Leadership & Solution Delivery\nLead the end-to-end delivery of business initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, architectural standards, security requirements, and enterprise technology strategies.\n\nProvide technical leadership for applications built using React, Java Spring Boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS cloud services, and batch processing technologies.\n\nDrive solution design discussions and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to define scalable, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions.\n\nPartner with Product Owners and Business Stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, delivery plans, and implementation roadmaps.\n\nEnsure technical stories and features contain appropriate architectural guidance, acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, and implementation details.\n\nLead AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, including application migration, performance optimization, resiliency improvements, and operational automation.\n\nDrive adoption of cloud-native best practices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, logging, and security controls.\n\nPartner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to optimize platform stability, scalability, and cost efficiency across AWS environments.\n\nApplication Architecture & Integration\nOversee integration solutions involving internal and external enterprise systems through APIs, event-driven architectures, and messaging platforms.\n\nProvide technical governance for Kafka-based event integrations and high-volume transactional processing.\n\nSupport design and execution of integration patterns that ensure data consistency, reliability, scalability, and operational visibility\n\nBatch Processing & Data Management\nProvide strategic direction and oversight for enterprise batch processing solutions utilizing:\nIBM DataStage\n\nSpring Batch\n\nAWS Batch\n\nEnsure batch workloads meet performance, reliability, recovery, and operational support requirements.\n\nCollaborate with data engineering teams on database design, optimization, and data quality initiatives across Oracle and PostgreSQL platforms\n\nDelivery & Program Execution\nOwn delivery commitments, release planning, resource allocation, risk management, dependency management, and stakeholder communications.\n\nManage multiple concurrent initiatives while ensuring predictable delivery of high-quality solutions.\n\nPartner closely with Program Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, QA teams, and Operations teams to remove delivery blockers and maintain execution transparency.\n\nProvide regular updates to senior leadership regarding project status, milestones, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.\n\nApplication Stability & Operational Excellence\nServe as the escalation point for critical production incidents and major business-impacting issues.\n\nDrive root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement activities.\n\nEnsure compliance with enterprise security standards, vulnerability remediation requirements, audit controls, and regulatory obligations.\n\nEstablish and monitor application health, service-level objectives, operational metrics, and support readiness.\n\nEngineering Excellence\nPromote engineering best practices including:\nCode reviews\n\nAutomated testing\n\nPair programming\n\nSecure coding practices\n\nDesign reviews\n\nContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)\n\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives focused on software quality, developer productivity, reliability, and technical debt reduction.\n\nFoster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and learning.\n\nTalent Development & Leadership\nMentor software engineers, technical leads, and delivery team members.\n\nConduct performance discussions, career development planning, and coaching sessions.\n\nSupport recruitment activities including resume reviews, technical interviews, candidate evaluations, and onboarding.\n\nBuild high-performing teams capable of delivering enterprise-scale software solutions.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\n7+ years of relevant experience\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent experience\n\nThe Qualifications We’re Looking For\n5+ years of experience in software engineering, application delivery, or technical leadership roles.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with: React.js, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and Microservices, Spring Batch and AWS Batch.\n\n3+ years of experience leading large-scale application delivery initiatives and engineering teams.\n\nExperience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native application architecture\n\nExperience designing and supporting distributed systems, high-availability solutions, and enterprise integrations.\n\nStrong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and SDLC best practices.\n\nHighly Preferred\nStrong technical decision-making and problem-solving skills.\n\nOracle Database, PostgreSQL, Kafka Event Streaming\n\nAbility to lead multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously.\n\nExceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.\n\nAbility to influence technical and business leaders across organizational boundaries.\n\nProven track record of delivering complex enterprise solutions while balancing business priorities, risk, quality, and operational excellence.\n\nExperience with:DataStage, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code\n\nExperience leading application modernization and cloud migration programs.\n\nFamiliarity with financial services or highly regulated environments.\n\nHow We'll Have Your Back\nAlly's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:\nTime Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).\nPlanning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.\nSupporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.\nBuilding a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.\nWork-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.\nOther Compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.\nTo view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf\n\nWho We Are:\nAlly Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. 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