Software Development Manager Jobs in North Carolina
Software Development Manager jobs in North Carolina are in strong demand, concentrated in the technology, financial services, and healthcare IT sectors, with openings ranging from first-time engineering managers through senior directors of software. The most active hiring metros are the Research Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill), Charlotte, and the Triad, where established employers such as Red Hat, Bank of America, and Duke University Health System consistently bring on software development managers. In-demand specializations include cloud platform engineering, agile delivery leadership, and DevSecOps. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Top employerCVS Health
Top cityCary, NC
Cities hiring7
Work type63% Hybrid
Top industryTechnology
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Senior Manager, Software Development
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Senior Manager, Software Development
SAS·Cary, North Carolina
Job functions:
Bachelor's degree in statistics
10,000+ employees
Job Description
:
We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.
If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you'll find it here. We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.
About the job
As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will:
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
You are welcome here.
Additional Information:
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact Recruitingsupport@sas.com.
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Senior Manager, Software Development- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina
We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.
If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you'll find it here. We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.
About the job
As a Senior Software Development Manager within the SAS 9 Fraud Analytics team, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for delivering and modernizing solutions across the SAS 9 Government, Integrity, and Fraud solutions portfolio, including Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence, Enterprise Case Management, and related fraud solutions. In this role, you will provide technical and people leadership to drive high-quality software delivery, improve performance, scalability, reliability, and security, and support the ongoing modernization of enterprise software products. You will work closely with engineering managers, technical leads, product management, technical support, consultants, and strategic partners to align development priorities with customer needs and business objectives.
You will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of modernization and development initiatives while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will:
- Lead day-to-day operations, priorities, and delivery commitments for a software development team.
- Provide people leadership by hiring, mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering talent.
- Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure adherence to R&D standards, secure software development practices, architecture guidelines, and engineering best practices.
- Partner with product management, customers, technical support, consultants, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and align delivery priorities.
- Manage and prioritize development initiatives, modernization efforts, releases, and customer-impacting issues across multiple products.
- Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress effectively to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with peer leaders to define and execute strategic initiatives aligned with organizational and product objectives.
- Partner with project, program, and product management teams to ensure software scope, release plans, and timelines meet customer and business expectations.
- Drive process improvements, engineering efficiencies, and innovation to improve team productivity and product quality.
- Stay informed about emerging technologies, engineering trends, and modernization opportunities, and evaluate their applicability to products and processes.
- Ensure applicable security policies, processes, and compliance requirements are followed to support secure and reliable software delivery.
- Model SAS values by demonstrating curiosity, passion, authenticity, accountability, and a strong commitment to customer success.
Required qualifications
- Requires a minimum of twelve years of related programming or testing experience, including three years of project lead, supervisory or management experience.
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, preferably computer science, math, or statistics.
- Experience working with enterprise software products, preferably in analytics, compliance, financial services, fraud, or related domains.
- Strong software engineering background with experience in enterprise software development.
- Proven experience leading software development teams and delivering complex, scalable, high-performance enterprise software solutions.
- Technical depth in software design, architecture, and development, preferably with Java-based enterprise applications.
- Hands-on understanding of modern programming technologies such as Java, JavaScript, React, or comparable frameworks.
- Experience working with databases and data-driven enterprise applications.
- Experience managing software releases, product priorities, and customer-impacting issues across multiple products or solution areas.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and collaborate effectively across engineering, product management, technical support, consulting, and customer-facing groups.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders across India and global teams.
- Ability to translate complex technical and business concepts into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated leadership in matrixed, global, or distributed environments, including the ability to influence change and drive alignment.
- Equivalent combination of education, training, and related experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
- Inspiring Others - Motivating individuals toward higher levels of performance that are aligned with the organization’s vision and values.
- Global Perspective - Demonstrating awareness of and sensitivity to the international market, cultural, technological, political, and legal factors that impact individual and work group priorities and results, leveraging own understanding of the organization’s global strategy, global business trends, and regional differences to enhance individual and work group results.
- Delegation and Empowerment - Identifying and leveraging opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks and decision-making responsibilities to individuals or teams with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up.
- Experience or working knowledge of fraud, compliance, financial crimes, or government integrity domains.
- Familiarity with SAS 9 Government, Integrity, and Fraud solutions, including Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence, Enterprise Case Management, or related fraud solutions.
- Experience leading modernization initiatives for legacy or enterprise-scale software products.
- Experience working in global product development environments with distributed engineering teams.
- Strong advocacy, collaboration, and communication skills across diverse technical and business stakeholders.
World-class benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include:
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
You are welcome here.
At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.
Additional Information:
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact Recruitingsupport@sas.com.
Let's stay in touch! Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on company news, job updates and more.
#SAS
SAS
Senior Manager, Software Development
Cary, North Carolina
New 16h ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
Bachelor's degree in statistics
Job Description
:
We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.
If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you'll find it here. We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.
About the job
As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will:
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
You are welcome here.
Additional Information:
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact Recruitingsupport@sas.com.
Let's stay in touch! Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on company news, job updates and more.
Senior Manager, Software Development- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina
We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.
If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you'll find it here. We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.
About the job
As a Senior Software Development Manager within the SAS 9 Fraud Analytics team, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for delivering and modernizing solutions across the SAS 9 Government, Integrity, and Fraud solutions portfolio, including Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence, Enterprise Case Management, and related fraud solutions. In this role, you will provide technical and people leadership to drive high-quality software delivery, improve performance, scalability, reliability, and security, and support the ongoing modernization of enterprise software products. You will work closely with engineering managers, technical leads, product management, technical support, consultants, and strategic partners to align development priorities with customer needs and business objectives.
You will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of modernization and development initiatives while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will:
- Lead day-to-day operations, priorities, and delivery commitments for a software development team.
- Provide people leadership by hiring, mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering talent.
- Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure adherence to R&D standards, secure software development practices, architecture guidelines, and engineering best practices.
- Partner with product management, customers, technical support, consultants, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and align delivery priorities.
- Manage and prioritize development initiatives, modernization efforts, releases, and customer-impacting issues across multiple products.
- Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress effectively to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with peer leaders to define and execute strategic initiatives aligned with organizational and product objectives.
- Partner with project, program, and product management teams to ensure software scope, release plans, and timelines meet customer and business expectations.
- Drive process improvements, engineering efficiencies, and innovation to improve team productivity and product quality.
- Stay informed about emerging technologies, engineering trends, and modernization opportunities, and evaluate their applicability to products and processes.
- Ensure applicable security policies, processes, and compliance requirements are followed to support secure and reliable software delivery.
- Model SAS values by demonstrating curiosity, passion, authenticity, accountability, and a strong commitment to customer success.
Required qualifications
- Requires a minimum of twelve years of related programming or testing experience, including three years of project lead, supervisory or management experience.
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, preferably computer science, math, or statistics.
- Experience working with enterprise software products, preferably in analytics, compliance, financial services, fraud, or related domains.
- Strong software engineering background with experience in enterprise software development.
- Proven experience leading software development teams and delivering complex, scalable, high-performance enterprise software solutions.
- Technical depth in software design, architecture, and development, preferably with Java-based enterprise applications.
- Hands-on understanding of modern programming technologies such as Java, JavaScript, React, or comparable frameworks.
- Experience working with databases and data-driven enterprise applications.
- Experience managing software releases, product priorities, and customer-impacting issues across multiple products or solution areas.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and collaborate effectively across engineering, product management, technical support, consulting, and customer-facing groups.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders across India and global teams.
- Ability to translate complex technical and business concepts into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated leadership in matrixed, global, or distributed environments, including the ability to influence change and drive alignment.
- Equivalent combination of education, training, and related experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
- Inspiring Others - Motivating individuals toward higher levels of performance that are aligned with the organization’s vision and values.
- Global Perspective - Demonstrating awareness of and sensitivity to the international market, cultural, technological, political, and legal factors that impact individual and work group priorities and results, leveraging own understanding of the organization’s global strategy, global business trends, and regional differences to enhance individual and work group results.
- Delegation and Empowerment - Identifying and leveraging opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks and decision-making responsibilities to individuals or teams with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up.
- Experience or working knowledge of fraud, compliance, financial crimes, or government integrity domains.
- Familiarity with SAS 9 Government, Integrity, and Fraud solutions, including Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence, Enterprise Case Management, or related fraud solutions.
- Experience leading modernization initiatives for legacy or enterprise-scale software products.
- Experience working in global product development environments with distributed engineering teams.
- Strong advocacy, collaboration, and communication skills across diverse technical and business stakeholders.
World-class benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include:
- PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
You are welcome here.
At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.
Additional Information:
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact Recruitingsupport@sas.com.
Let's stay in touch! Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on company news, job updates and more.
#SAS
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Who's Hiring
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- Technology & Software
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What North Carolina Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in software development manager jobs across North Carolina.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field
- Five or more years of software engineering experience with at least two years in a lead or management role
- Demonstrated experience managing full-cycle software delivery using Agile or Scrum frameworks
- Proficiency overseeing cloud-based development environments, particularly AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills working with product, QA, and DevOps teams
- Experience with hiring, mentoring, and performance management for engineering teams of five or more
Software Development Manager Jobs in North Carolina: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a software development manager in North Carolina?
Software development manager roles in North Carolina do not require a state-issued license or certification. The standard path is a bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering, several years of hands-on development experience, and a transition into a team lead or senior engineer role. North Carolina employers, particularly in the Research Triangle and Charlotte tech corridors, look for candidates who have led delivery teams and can show measurable outcomes from that leadership.
Which companies hire software development managers in North Carolina?
Employers hiring software development managers in North Carolina right now include CVS Health, SAS, and MetLife, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. North Carolina's concentration of technology companies, major financial institutions in Charlotte, and large academic medical systems across the Triangle and Triad means consistent demand across multiple industries throughout the year.
Which North Carolina cities have the most software development manager jobs?
The cities with the most software development manager openings in North Carolina are Cary, Raleigh, and Charlotte. The Research Triangle anchors the state's tech hiring because of the density of enterprise software companies, biotech firms, and university-affiliated research organizations in and around Raleigh and Durham, while Charlotte's financial services sector drives steady demand for managers leading fintech and data platform teams.
Are there remote software development manager jobs in North Carolina?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 75% of software development manager openings tied to North Carolina are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how much of the work centers on code review, sprint planning, and team communication rather than physical presence. The most fully remote positions tend to be with technology product companies, while financial services and healthcare IT employers in North Carolina more commonly require hybrid schedules.
How can I get hired as a software development manager in North Carolina with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a team lead or tech lead role within a North Carolina employer before stepping into a formal management title. Companies such as Red Hat and SAS Institute in the Research Triangle and the large financial technology organizations in Charlotte regularly promote senior engineers who have informally led project teams. Building a record of mentoring junior developers, owning sprint planning, or coordinating cross-team delivery makes you competitive for that first manager opening without a prior management title.
Where can I find and apply to software development manager jobs in North Carolina?
You can find and apply to software development manager jobs in North Carolina on Migrate Mate, which lists current North Carolina openings across the Research Triangle, Charlotte, and the Triad. Find roles that fit your experience and seniority level and apply directly to the ones that match.
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