Sr. Development Manager

About the role

Position Summary The Senior Development Manager is responsible for leading the Application Development team while remaining an active hands-on contributor to software delivery efforts. This role combines technical leadership, team management, solution design, and software development responsibilities. The position provides day-to-day leadership for development resources, supports engineering best practices, contributes to software architecture and implementation, and partners closely with the Director of Engineering to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and technology strategy. The Senior Development Manager serves as a working leader, balancing people leadership responsibilities with direct technical contributions across application, web, and software development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Management: Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and mentorship for the Application Development team.
• Team Leadership & Management: Partner with the Director of Engineering to conduct performance reviews, establish employee goals, identify development opportunities, and support career growth planning for team members.
• Team Leadership & Management: Manage team workload, priorities, and resource allocation to ensure successful project delivery.
• Team Leadership & Management: Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing development culture.
• Team Leadership & Management: Support employee engagement, team effectiveness, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as the senior technical resource for application and web development initiatives.
• Technical Leadership: Collaborate with the Director of Engineering to define, implement, and maintain development standards, coding practices, architectural principles, and software delivery best practices.
• Technical Leadership: Lead technical design discussions and provide guidance on solution architecture.
• Technical Leadership: Perform code reviews and promote software quality, maintainability, and performance.
• Technical Leadership: Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex technical issues.
• Technical Leadership: Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and development tools that improve engineering effectiveness.
• Hands-On Development: Actively participate in software development projects as an individual contributor.
• Hands-On Development: Design, develop, test, and support business-critical applications and web solutions.
• Hands-On Development: Contribute to application modernization and enhancement initiatives.
• Hands-On Development: Support system integrations and cross-platform solutions where required.
• Hands-On Development: Participate in sprint planning, estimation, backlog refinement, and technical execution activities.
• Hands-On Development: Assist in production support and resolution of critical business-impacting issues.
• Delivery & Project Oversight: Coordinate development activities across multiple projects and initiatives.
• Delivery & Project Oversight: Ensure development work is delivered on schedule and aligned with business objectives.
• Delivery & Project Oversight: Identify project risks and work with Engineering leadership to develop mitigation strategies.
• Delivery & Project Oversight: Collaborate with Integration, Analytics, Product, and Business stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Delivery & Project Oversight: Support continuous improvement of development processes and team effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience.
• Experience leading software projects and development teams.
• Strong full-stack application development background.
• Experience with software architecture, SDLC methodologies, and Agile practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Working Relationships

• Director, Engineering
• Integration Tech Supervisor
• Integrations SME
• Analytics/Data SME
• Product Owners
• Business Stakeholders

Success Measures

• Successful delivery of software development initiatives.
• High application quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Effective team performance and employee development.
• Adoption of engineering standards and best practices.
• Strong collaboration across Development, Integration, and Analytics functions.
• Continuous improvement of development processes and technical capabilities.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• This position requires applicants to be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship; TestEquity does not sponsor applicants for work visas.