Application Development Manager, Engineering

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for an Application Development Manager, Engineering, at our Dallas, TX, office.

This position is an office-based position

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Responsibilities

Serves as the senior technical leader and subject matter expert responsible for the technology landscape across the HBS portfolio of MAB commercial applications. Provides application architecture, engineering governance, and delivery oversight to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and the broader technology strategy.

• Provide technical leadership and governance across multiple enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and technology strategy.
• Use prior hands-on development and design experience across Java, Spring Boot, .NET, Golang, PHP, React.js, SQL Server, MySQL, AWS, and Azure to guide technical decisions, solution approaches, and engineering best practices.
• Review and approve solution architectures, technical designs, implementation plans, and code quality standards to promote scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions.
• Partner with Product Managers, business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to translate business needs into effective technical solutions and sequenced delivery roadmaps.
• Lead database design reviews covering data modeling, schema design, performance optimization, indexing strategies, data integrity standards, and high-volume databases supporting millions of records and large-scale transactional workloads.
• Provide technical oversight, coaching, and mentorship to onsite and offshore engineering teams, reinforcing high-quality delivery, technical excellence, and adherence to established standards.
• Participate in Agile and SAFe practices, including PI Planning, estimation, technical dependency management, risk assessment, and cross-team coordination.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Product, and Operations, serving as the primary technical escalation point for complex application, architecture, production, and data-related challenges.
• Ensure applications remain scalable and reliable while meeting performance, security, and operational standards; conduct architecture, design, code, and security reviews as appropriate.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope and responsibility of the job level and family.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience including hands-on application development/design and technical leadership across enterprise solutions.
• Demonstrated experience governing complex application portfolios, cloud platforms, high-volume databases, and distributed onsite/offshore engineering teams.
• Analytical Thinking; Application Architecture; Application Design and Development; Application Programming Interfaces (APIs); Agile and SAFe; AWS; Azure; Cloud Architecture; Code and Design Reviews; Collaboration; Database Design; DevOps; Effective Communication; Engineering Governance; Golang; HTML; Java; JavaScript; .NET; PHP; React.js; Risk and Dependency Management; Security and Performance Standards; Software Development Life Cycle; Solution Architecture; Spring Boot; SQL; SQL Server; MySQL; Technical Leadership; Technical Mentorship; Time Management.
• Ability to travel occasionally locally and stay overnight.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary minimum to the midpoint of the range is $109,900.00 to $151,000.00. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials may apply to the pay range.

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• Compensation - Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition - You are rewarded for achieving success through annual salary planning and incentive programs; eligibility for an incentive program is based on the type of position.
• Benefits - We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional Development - You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. Heart U is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization - The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the Association will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities.This position not a match with your skills? Click here to see other opportunities.

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