Senior Manager - Enterprise Application Engineering

About the role

At Bealls Inc., we've built our business around bringing brands, style and value to families while creating exceptional experiences for our guests for 111 years. A family-owned company with more than 660 stores across 23 states, we have remained true to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and commitment to serving communities across the country. We are a leading off-price retailer with a loyal customer following and growing national presence, providing us a strong foundation for continued success and long-term growth. Talented, dedicated associates are central to everything we accomplish. As our business continues to grow and evolve, we’re creating opportunities for associates to contribute in meaningful ways, build new skills, and grow their careers. We believe great results come from working together. We foster a collaborative environment where associates are empowered to share ideas, collaborate across teams and take ownership of their development. Our leaders are committed to providing support, guidance and opportunities that help people reach their potential.

The Senior Manager- Enterprise Application Engineering leads Bealls’ enterprise application development organization. The role advances a modern, cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure and an AI-augmented software development lifecycle, while owning end-to-end delivery: capacity, execution, quality, support, and partner management across all business areas. It is equally accountable for building new capabilities and for keeping the established application portfolio stable, secure, and progressively modernized.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & People Development
  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers and engineering managers across the application development organization
  • Own hiring, performance management, and career development for the team
  • Set technical direction and foster a collaborative, standards-driven engineering culture
• Delivery Management
  • Capacity Management — own capacity planning and resource allocation across concurrent product lines, balancing new development against the maintenance backlog
  • Sprint & Delivery Execution — run agile delivery — sprint planning, execution, and release management — to deliver predictably across all business areas
  • Support SLAs & Escalation — own production support, service-level commitments, and incident escalation for the application portfolio
  • Quality & Standards — set and enforce standards for code quality, testing, security, branch governance, and observability
  • Vendor Management — direct external delivery partners on scope, quality, throughput, and skills mix
• Application Engineering & Modernization
  • Deliver cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure across web, mobile (.NET MAUI) and handheld/PDA surfaces
  • Drive the integration architecture toward Azure-based integrations and a general publish/subscribe pattern, retiring legacy ETL and file-transfer tooling, with transformation localized at the endpoints
  • Keep the established .NET and C# application portfolio stable, secure, and supported while looking for opportunities to modernize
  • Make sound architecture decisions in partnership with leadership and domain teams
• AI-Enabled Delivery
  • Guide delivery of AI applications — conversational assistants, retrieval-augmented experiences, and agentic workflows — with appropriate grounding, access control, and human-in-the-loop review
  • Apply AI across the software development lifecycle to relieve capacity and delivery-timeline constraints, championing effective, measured use of AI development tools
• Interaction Partners closely with Mer