Manager - Software Engineering

Ally and Your Career 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? Work 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. The Opportunity The Manager - Software Engineering is responsible for the successful delivery, modernization, stability, and continuous improvement for the Ally's critical applications. This role provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams and serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, product management, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and engineering teams. This individual owns end-to-end delivery for a highly integrated enterprise platform built using React, Java Spring Boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS cloud technologies, batch processing frameworks, and event-driven architectures. This individual is accountable for delivery execution, technical design governance, application reliability, operational excellence, modernization initiatives, production support, regulatory compliance, and team development. At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. The Work Itself Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery • 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. Application Architecture & Integration • 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 Batch Processing & Data Management • 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 Delivery & Program Execution • 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. Application Stability & Operational Excellence • 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. Engineering Excellence • Promote engineering best practices including: • Code reviews • Automated testing • Pair programming • Secure coding practices • Design reviews • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (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. Talent Development & Leadership • Mentor software engineers, technical leads, and delivery team members. • Conduct performance discussions, career development planning, and coaching