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Description
4 Days in the office from any of our locations in Pittsburgh, PA, Johnston RI,Dallas TX, Nashville TN, Short Hills NJ, Westwood or Medford MA, Phoenix AZ and couple other locations
Responsibilities
As the Manager of Software Engineering, you will serve as a key contributor and leader in the space of technological innovation. As Manager, you will combine your technical expertise and strong leadership skills to spearhead a results-driven engineering operation. The dynamic workload will encompass both attribute enhancements and cutting-edge innovations.
The Manager of Software Engineering will be responsible for:
Developing, managing and retaining a team of highly-inquisitive technologists, offering them both mentoring and coaching.
Collaborating with architects, product managers and other technical or non-technical stakeholders to define design approaches that are aligned with the customer-centric product vision.
Ensuring the best engineering and documentation practices are understood and followed.
Coordinating with peers within the organization to ensure seamless integration of functional workflows.
Ensuring successful incremental product releases while driving to deadlines and optimizing investments. Assuring quality through efficient management of team and resources.
Evaluating and limiting risk and vulnerabilities during the software development process by consistently employing industry best-practices.
- Manage technology budget tracking, spending reviews, forecasting, timesheet approvals, and contractor and vendor tracking; oversee capacity planning, resource allocation, hiring support, skill gaps, and workload balancing.
- Partner with L2 support, infrastructure, development, and operations teams on production incident triage, issue resolution, recovery planning, and root cause analysis.
- Owning the EPP (Enterprise Platform Payments) technology roadmap and delivery plans: aligning priorities with business objectives, tracking sprint, release, and go-live milestones, coordinating cross-program dependencies, and escalating delivery risks with mitigation plans.
- Serving as the primary coordination point across EPP teams, resolving blockers, coordinating implementation activities, and supporting daily issue, risk, and escalation reviews.
- Presenting bi-weekly technology updates to senior leadership on delivery health, readiness, production status, risks, budget concerns, and escalations.
- Supporting architecture and solution-design reviews and providing implementation guidance to architects and technical leads.
- Managing EPP environment availability, deployment schedules, refreshes, and conflicts across application, infrastructure, DevOps, and release-management teams.
- Governing mock testing, SIT, QA, command-center execution, and hypercare, including test-data preparation, defect remediation, go-live checklists, and readiness assessments.
- Overseeing remediation of Qualys, Wiz, Sonatype, and Fortify findings, ensuring clear ownership, meeting compliance deadlines, and reporting status to leadership.
RequiredQualifications
10+ years of hands-on software development experience with a proven record of successfully developing consumer-facing, reliable and scalable products
7+ years of relevant managerial experience, managing teams of technologists and engineers
Excellent understanding of engineering software processes, methodologies (agile, waterfall, SCRUM and life-cycle), configuration management, release management and systems verification and test
Mastery of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
AWS/AZURE/GCP experience, including managing sensitive assets
Bash and Linux experience
Experience with CICD pipeline (CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
Strong communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills
Desired Qualifications
5+ years of experience in the financial services industry, developing solutions for consumer banking, portfolio management, trading, compliance or wealth management
Understanding of banking system and custodial and consumer banking operations
Comfortable navigating large corporate structure to ensure timely delivery of projects
Knowledge of Zelle, RTP and ACH
Education and Certifications
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline
- Preferred: Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline
Pay Transparency
The salary range for this position is $180,000 – $231,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn additional incentive earnings (if applicable). Actual pay is based on various factors including, but not limited to, the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience..
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits
Some job boards have started using jobseeker-reported data to estimate salary ranges for roles. If you apply and qualify for this role, a recruiter will discuss accurate pay guidance.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.
Background Check
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.
Benefits
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more.
Awards We've Received
Dave Thomas Foundation’s Best Adoption-Friendly Workplace
Disability:IN World's Top Disability Inclusive Business
Glassdoor
Best Place to Work in Consulting, Finance & Insurance
Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 100 Award
Newsweek America's Most Charitable Company
The Banker's
US Bank of the Year
Description
4 Days in the office from any of our locations in Pittsburgh, PA, Johnston RI,Dallas TX, Nashville TN, Short Hills NJ, Westwood or Medford MA, Phoenix AZ and couple other locations
Responsibilities
As the Manager of Software Engineering, you will serve as a key contributor and leader in the space of technological innovation. As Manager, you will combine your technical expertise and strong leadership skills to spearhead a results-driven engineering operation. The dynamic workload will encompass both attribute enhancements and cutting-edge innovations.
The Manager of Software Engineering will be responsible for:
Developing, managing and retaining a team of highly-inquisitive technologists, offering them both mentoring and coaching.
Collaborating with architects, product managers and other technical or non-technical stakeholders to define design approaches that are aligned with the customer-centric product vision.
Ensuring the best engineering and documentation practices are understood and followed.
Coordinating with peers within the organization to ensure seamless integration of functional workflows.
Ensuring successful incremental product releases while driving to deadlines and optimizing investments. Assuring quality through efficient management of team and resources.
Evaluating and limiting risk and vulnerabilities during the software development process by consistently employing industry best-practices.
- Manage technology budget tracking, spending reviews, forecasting, timesheet approvals, and contractor and vendor tracking; oversee capacity planning, resource allocation, hiring support, skill gaps, and workload balancing.
- Partner with L2 support, infrastructure, development, and operations teams on production incident triage, issue resolution, recovery planning, and root cause analysis.
- Owning the EPP (Enterprise Platform Payments) technology roadmap and delivery plans: aligning priorities with business objectives, tracking sprint, release, and go-live milestones, coordinating cross-program dependencies, and escalating delivery risks with mitigation plans.
- Serving as the primary coordination point across EPP teams, resolving blockers, coordinating implementation activities, and supporting daily issue, risk, and escalation reviews.
- Presenting bi-weekly technology updates to senior leadership on delivery health, readiness, production status, risks, budget concerns, and escalations.
- Supporting architecture and solution-design reviews and providing implementation guidance to architects and technical leads.
- Managing EPP environment availability, deployment schedules, refreshes, and conflicts across application, infrastructure, DevOps, and release-management teams.
- Governing mock testing, SIT, QA, command-center execution, and hypercare, including test-data preparation, defect remediation, go-live checklists, and readiness assessments.
- Overseeing remediation of Qualys, Wiz, Sonatype, and Fortify findings, ensuring clear ownership, meeting compliance deadlines, and reporting status to leadership.
RequiredQualifications
10+ years of hands-on software development experience with a proven record of successfully developing consumer-facing, reliable and scalable products
7+ years of relevant managerial experience, managing teams of technologists and engineers
Excellent understanding of engineering software processes, methodologies (agile, waterfall, SCRUM and life-cycle), configuration management, release management and systems verification and test
Mastery of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.
AWS/AZURE/GCP experience, including managing sensitive assets
Bash and Linux experience
Experience with CICD pipeline (CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
Strong communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills
Desired Qualifications
5+ years of experience in the financial services industry, developing solutions for consumer banking, portfolio management, trading, compliance or wealth management
Understanding of banking system and custodial and consumer banking operations
Comfortable navigating large corporate structure to ensure timely delivery of projects
Knowledge of Zelle, RTP and ACH
Education and Certifications
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline
- Preferred: Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline
Pay Transparency
The salary range for this position is $180,000 – $231,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn additional incentive earnings (if applicable). Actual pay is based on various factors including, but not limited to, the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience..
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits
Some job boards have started using jobseeker-reported data to estimate salary ranges for roles. If you apply and qualify for this role, a recruiter will discuss accurate pay guidance.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.
Background Check
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.
Benefits
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more.
Awards We've Received
Dave Thomas Foundation’s Best Adoption-Friendly Workplace
Disability:IN World's Top Disability Inclusive Business
Glassdoor
Best Place to Work in Consulting, Finance & Insurance
Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 100 Award
Newsweek America's Most Charitable Company
The Banker's
US Bank of the Year
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Who's Hiring
- Lockheed Martin27
- L3Harris8
- Options Clearing Corporation7
- Humana3
- Peraton3
Top Industries Hiring
- Education
- Manufacturing
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in software engineering associate manager jobs.
- 3-5 years of software engineering experience with at least one year leading or mentoring engineers
- Proficiency in one or more backend or full-stack languages such as Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript
- Experience running agile ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, and standups
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and CI/CD pipeline tools
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with product managers and stakeholders on roadmap prioritization
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Software Engineering Associate Manager Job Search
Quantify your team leadership impact
Hiring managers for associate manager roles want to see numbers behind your leadership. Replace vague claims with specifics: how many engineers you mentored, how much your team's cycle time improved, or how many incidents you reduced through process changes.
Highlight cross-functional delivery experience
Software engineering associate manager listings consistently ask for experience coordinating with product, design, and QA. Your resume should name actual cross-functional projects you drove, not just that you attended syncs or participated in planning ceremonies.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists software engineering associate manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at the right growth stage
Associate manager roles at Series B or C startups often come with more scope than the same title at a large enterprise. Filter your search by company size and read recent press releases to gauge whether headcount is growing, which signals real team-building authority.
Prepare a people management narrative for interviews
Expect behavioral questions about handling underperformers, running one-on-ones, and navigating disagreements with product managers. Prepare two or three concrete stories now, because interviewers for this level probe management judgment more than technical depth.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
When you receive an offer, ask explicitly how many direct reports the role starts with and whether that number is expected to grow. Associate manager titles vary widely in authority, so clarifying team size and reporting structure protects you from a role that is engineer-track in disguise.
Software Engineering Associate Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most software engineering associate managers?
The companies hiring the most software engineering associate managers right now include Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, and Options Clearing Corporation, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Florida, and Colorado, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Openings are concentrated at mid-to-large technology companies and high-growth startups scaling their engineering organizations.
How many software engineering associate manager jobs are remote?
About 86% of software engineering associate manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the management layer's need for some in-person presence at many companies. Platform, infrastructure, and backend-focused associate manager roles tend to have the highest remote availability compared to roles tied to on-site product teams.
How do you become a software engineering associate manager?
Most software engineering associate managers move up from a senior individual contributor role after demonstrating informal leadership, such as onboarding new hires, running technical planning, or owning a project end to end. The clearest path is to ask your manager for a stretch assignment that includes people responsibilities, deliver consistently on it, and then make a direct case for the title change with specific evidence of your impact on the team.
Can you get a software engineering associate manager role with limited management experience?
Yes, many companies hire engineers into associate manager roles specifically because they want someone who is still close to the code. If your formal people management experience is thin, emphasize any time you led an intern, coordinated a project across teams, or drove an engineering process improvement. Framing your technical credibility as a foundation for the role, rather than a substitute for it, is the most effective angle in both your resume and your interviews.
What does the software engineering associate manager interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to five rounds and combines a technical screen, a system design discussion, and a set of behavioral interviews focused on people management scenarios. Many companies add a hiring manager conversation early to assess cultural fit and a final round with a senior engineering leader. Expect at least one exercise where you are asked how you would handle a specific team conflict, an underperforming engineer, or a missed deadline.
Where can I find and apply to software engineering associate manager jobs?
You can find and apply to software engineering associate manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the listings, find the roles that match your background and goals, and apply directly to each one that fits.
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