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Real Soft, Inc.
locationJacksonville, FL, USA
PublishedPublished: 7/4/2026
Full time
2 Candidate Submittal Slots, New High Level Policy

MSP Owner: Rob Finton
Location: St.Louis,MO REMOTE
Duration: 6 months
skill id: 10848183

Competencies: 8-10+ years experience required
Business Analysis

Job Summary:
A Senior Manager, Software Engineering will lead one or more teams of skilled technical software engineers in the development and maintenance of applications and systems for assigned functional areas or business units. Responsibilities include guiding the design, development and implementation of software solutions by translating business requirements into technical roadmaps and leading teams in building high-quality, maintainable software.

Key Responsibilities*
• Guide and lead team in strategic discussion and technical developments recommendations to improve quality of software solutions and supporting infrastructure to better meet users' needs.
• Drive effective cross-functional team collaboration to conceptualize technology solutions and services, leveraging data to drive original design ideas and decisions.
• Ensure software engineering team is adhering to software development best practices to analyze, design, develop, test, and implement high quality technology solutions that meet the needs of the business. This includes alignment with IT standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Implement and drive adherence to quality assurance change initiatives. Foster and environment that encourages team to continually review and improve operational improvements.
• Ensure reliability and resiliency in supported technology portfolios by implementing appropriate tools and procedures to monitor, identify, and proactively remediate software stability issues before causing customer impact.
• Develop complex, long-term work schedules that enable the organization to achieve its business goals. Involves coordinating and planning dependencies across multiple teams to enable prioritized delivery of initiatives across the technology portfolio.
• Define and maintain a technology roadmap to facilitate application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized across both technical and business needs.
• Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Ensure the performance of skilled technical resources within the department or area of responsibility is appropriately being managed and developed through setting appropriate performance objectives for direct/indirect reports and holding individuals Team Members accountable for achieving them. Ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken, where necessary, to ensure the achievement of committed objectives.
• Clearly articulate and outline the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and technology strategy within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate Team Members to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve area goals and commitments.
• Support the development and management of labor, software, and outside service budgets and work with leadership to report variances and make recommendations where necessary.
• Evaluate the capabilities of Team Members within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implement formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility. Coach and mentor others to support the continued talent grown and development of the team
• Drive the team toward results, help with communication and make sure the work required matches the published timeline. When it doesn't matches, make sure that planning activities occurs to reset the team or the work, and feel comfortable providing next steps.

Skills Required
• Understands and applies the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and maintenance, to effectively develop high quality software solutions.
• Understanding the technology solutions, challenges the team is facing and driving the team toward results
• Effectively plan, organize, prioritize and oversee activities to efficiently meet objectives.
• Assimilates and understands data and information from various sources in order to draw appropriate conclusions and make relevant recommendations.
• Understands business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business.
• Envisions and documents the future state of processes and technology by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, technology, organization infrastructure, and capabilities to achieve the desired future state.
• Creates clear, comprehensive, and effective, documentation and analysis that convey complex technical concepts, using documentation tools to craft structured and visually appealing content that meets the intended purposes. Provides technical guidance and leadership to team.
• Develops software through use of various programming languages, tools and platforms.
• Guides team on overall understanding, deployment, and management of cloud-based infrastructure and services.
• Provides guidance on the design, execution and reporting on systems/service tests to ensure that applications functions as specified in the requirements.
• Reviews and evaluates recommendations and requirements to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Builds the structure and culture of the project team, and defines roles and responsibilities within that structure to enable the achievement of project mission and objectives and the effective operation of key business processes.
• Identifies, sequences, and resources project schedules for timely completion.
• Plans, identifies, monitors, analyzes, and prioritizes risks, threats, and opportunities to create response plans, and manage the risk if it occurs.
• Ensures that Team members at all levels in the organization possess and develop the skills knowledge and experiences needed to fulfill the short-term and long-term ambitions of the organization and that they are motivated to learn, grow and develop.
• Expresses ideas, requests action, formulates plans, and policies by means of clear and effective verbal communications.
• Shifts into and out of a mental mindset associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment, and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario

Section III - Job Qualifications & Skills
Domain Retail
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication
- Team collaboration
- Documentation and knowledge sharing

Managerial Experience Experience planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers (3 to 6 years)
Education Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level, Project Code :