Senior Development Manager

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and champion the long-term platform roadmap ensuring scalability, maintainability, and business agility.
• Drive platform alignment across teams to deliver value consistently.
• Coach tech leads, architects, and engineers to improve autonomy, accountability, and craftsmanship. Foster a high-performance culture across distributed teams.
• Oversee planning, prioritization, and delivery across backend services, middleware, and shared platform components. Manage release cadence, backlog health, and platform KPIs.
• Ensure architectural compliance, technical debt management, and platform-wide design principles through collaboration with architects and principal engineers.
• Partner with Product Owners, Security, QA, and DevOps to ensure that platforms are secure, testable, observable, and aligned with business capabilities.
• Implement scalable agile practices, OKRs, and cadence rituals (PI planning, tribe syncs, retros). Facilitate flow across multiple value streams.
• Ensure platform adheres to secure development standards and proactively manages audit, compliance, and privacy concerns across environments.
• Evaluate and govern platform toolchains (e.g., Gitflow, CI/CD, Observability stacks) and coordinate with vendors for support and SLAs.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (master’s preferred)
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) is a plus
• 7+ years in backend/platform engineering, including system architecture and infrastructure optimization
• 5+ years of proven team management experience across multiple squads or tribes
• Prior experience scaling banking platforms, ensuring multi-region reliability, HA, and fault tolerance
• Experience leading cross-functional agile teams, driving delivery across multiple platforms simultaneously
• Strong understanding of banking systems architecture, core system integration, and digital transformation roadmaps
• Expertise in secure service design (OAuth2, OpenID, encryption, tokenization, etc.)
• Clear understanding of regulatory requirements, audit readiness, and IT governance for platforms
• Business value prioritization using agile metrics like business velocity, ROI-based epics, and lead time management