Manager - Software Engineering

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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro paragraph about Ally and career, etc. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" could be the introductory description of the role and company. We'll include that as a

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    • each benefit category. Pay: Base Pay Range $110,000 - $180,000 and Incentive Compensation mention. So we need Pay section. Schedule: we already have Work Schedule info. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual data. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Remove. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include navigation, cookie, etc. We must output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. Structure:

      About the role

      Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. 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?

      Responsibilities

      • Lead the end-to-end delivery of business initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, architectural standards, security requirements, and enterprise technology strategies.
      • Provide technical leadership for applications built using React, Java Spring Boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS cloud services, and batch processing technologies.
      • Drive solution design discussions and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to define scalable, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions.
      • Partner with Product Owners and Business Stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, delivery plans, and implementation roadmaps.
      • Ensure technical stories and features contain appropriate architectural guidance, acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, and implementation details.
      • Lead AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives, including application migration, performance optimization, resiliency improvements, and operational automation.
      • Drive adoption of cloud-native best practices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, logging, and security controls.
      • Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to optimize platform stability, scalability, and cost efficiency across AWS environments.
      • Oversee integration solutions involving internal and external enterprise systems through APIs, event-driven architectures, and messaging platforms.
      • Provide technical governance for Kafka-based event integrations and high-volume transactional processing.
      • Support design and execution of integration patterns that ensure data consistency, reliability, scalability, and operational visibility.
      • Provide strategic direction and oversight for enterprise batch processing solutions utilizing IBM DataStage, Spring Batch, AWS Batch.
      • Ensure batch workloads meet performance, reliability, recovery, and operational support requirements.
      • Collaborate with data engineering teams on database design, optimization, and data quality initiatives across Oracle and PostgreSQL platforms.
      • Own delivery commitments, release planning, resource allocation, risk management, dependency management, and stakeholder communications.
      • Manage multiple concurrent initiatives while ensuring predictable delivery of high-quality solutions.
      • Partner closely with Program Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, QA teams, and Operations teams to remove delivery blockers and maintain execution transparency.
      • Provide regular updates to senior leadership regarding project status, milestones, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
      • Serve as the escalation point for critical production incidents and major business-impacting issues.
      • Drive root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement activities.
      • Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards, vulnerability remediation requirements, audit controls, and regulatory obligations.
      • Establish and monitor application health, service-level objectives, operational metrics, and support readiness.
      • Promote engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, pair programming, secure coding practices, design reviews, CI/CD.
      • Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on software quality, developer productivity, reliability, and technical debt reduction.
      • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and learning.
      • Mentor software engineers, technical leads, and delivery team members.
      • Conduct performance discussions, career development planning, and coaching sessions.
      • Support recruitment activities including resume reviews, technical interviews, candidate evaluations, and onboarding.
      • Build high-performing teams capable of delivering enterprise-scale software solutions.

      Requirements

      • 7+ years of relevant experience
      • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent experience

      Qualifications

      • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, application delivery, or technical leadership roles
      • Strong hands-on experience with React.js, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and Microservices, Spring Batch and AWS Batch
      • 3+ years of experience leading large-scale application delivery initiatives and engineering teams
      • Experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native application architecture
      • Experience designing and supporting distributed systems, high-availability solutions, and enterprise integrations
      • Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies and SDLC best practices

      Skills

      • Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Kafka Event Streaming
      • Ability to lead multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously
      • Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
      • Ability to influence technical and business leaders across organizational boundaries
      • Proven track record of delivering complex enterprise solutions while balancing business priorities, risk, quality, and operational excellence
      • Experience with DataStage, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code
      • Experience leading application modernization and cloud migration programs
      • Familiarity with financial services or highly regulated environments

      Benefits

      • Time 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)
      • Planning for the Future: 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
      • Supporting 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
      • Building 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
      • Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs
      • Other 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

      Pay

      Base Pay Range $110,000.00 - $180,000.00. This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.

      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.

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