Senior Manager, Software Development

Senior Manager, Software Development- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina

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About the job

As a Senior Software Development Manager within the SAS 9 Fraud Analytics team, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for delivering and modernizing solutions across the SAS 9 Government, Integrity, and Fraud solutions portfolio, including Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence, Enterprise Case Management, and related fraud solutions. In this role, you will provide technical and people leadership to drive high-quality software delivery, improve performance, scalability, reliability, and security, and support the ongoing modernization of enterprise software products. You will work closely with engineering managers, technical leads, product management, technical support, consultants, and strategic partners to align development priorities with customer needs and business objectives.

You will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of modernization and development initiatives while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will:

• Lead day-to-day operations, priorities, and delivery commitments for a software development team.
• Provide people leadership by hiring, mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering talent.
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure adherence to R&D standards, secure software development practices, architecture guidelines, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with product management, customers, technical support, consultants, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and align delivery priorities.
• Manage and prioritize development initiatives, modernization efforts, releases, and customer-impacting issues across multiple products.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress effectively to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with peer leaders to define and execute strategic initiatives aligned with organizational and product objectives.
• Partner with project, program, and product management teams to ensure software scope, release plans, and timelines meet customer and business expectations.
• Drive process improvements, engineering efficiencies, and innovation to improve team productivity and product quality.
• Stay informed about emerging technologies, engineering trends, and modernization opportunities, and evaluate their applicability to products and processes.
• Ensure applicable security policies, processes, and compliance requirements are followed to support secure and reliable software delivery.
• Model SAS values by demonstrating curiosity, passion, authenticity, accountability, and a strong commitment to customer success.

Required qualifications

• Requires a minimum of twelve years of related programming or testing experience, including three years of project lead, supervisory or management experience. 
• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, preferably computer science, math, or statistics.
• Experience working with enterprise software products, preferably in analytics, compliance, financial services, fraud, or related domains.
• Strong software engineering background with experience in enterprise software development.
• Proven experience leading software development teams and delivering complex, scalable, high-performance enterprise software solutions.
• Technical depth in software design, architecture, and development, preferably with Java-based enterprise applications.
• Hands-on understanding of modern programming technologies such as Java, JavaScript, React, or comparable frameworks.
• Experience working with databases and data-driven enterprise applications.
• Experience managing software releases, product priorities, and customer-impacting issues across multiple products or solution areas.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and collaborate effectively across engineering, product management, technical support, consulting, and customer-facing groups.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders across India and global teams.
• Ability to translate complex technical and business concepts into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated leadership in matrixed, global, or distributed environments, including the ability to influence change and drive alignment.
• Equivalent combination of education, training, and related experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Inspiring Others - Motivating individuals toward higher levels of performance that are aligned with the organization’s vision and values.
• Global Perspective - Demonstrating awareness of and sensitivity to the international market, cultural, technological, political, and legal factors that impact individual and work group priorities and results, leveraging own understanding of the organization’s global strategy, global business trends, and regional differences to enhance individual and work group results.
• Delegation and Empowerment - Identifying and leveraging opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks and decision-making responsibilities to individuals or teams with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up.
• Experience or working knowledge of fraud, compliance, financial crimes, or government integrity domains.
• Familiarity with SAS 9 Government, Integrity, and Fraud solutions, including Anti-Money Laundering, Customer Due Diligence, Enterprise Case Management, or related fraud solutions.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives for legacy or enterprise-scale software products.
• Experience working in global product development environments with distributed engineering teams.
• Strong advocacy, collaboration, and communication skills across diverse technical and business stakeholders.

World-class benefits

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include:
• PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

You are welcome here.

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Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

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