Software Development Manager

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Element employees make a difference in the lives of others every day. We are re-defining the fleet management industry to be people first, then business - delivering on our promise of a superior client experience. This takes hard work and innovation, and we need more like-minded people on our team.

We're looking for a versatile technology leader to join our team as Software Development Manager. In this role, you will provide hands-on leadership across diverse technology strategic initiatives while serving as a technology-agnostic leader who can drive large-scale software development programs. You will contribute directly through analysis, documentation, and coding to deliver high-quality, scalable, and testable solutions across enterprise platforms. This role enables business transformation and measurable outcomes while balancing strategic alignment with technical excellence.

• Lead software development initiatives across multiple technology platforms and teams, ensuring timely and successful delivery of complex business projects while defining transformation scoping, process optimization, and data strategies for ERP-centric investments.
• Define and oversee architectural design, technical roadmaps, and best practices for coding, testing, and documentation aligned with enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define scope, optimize processes, and design sustainable software solutions while implementing development best practices for Financial and Core systems.
• Actively engage in technical reviews, peer programming, and requirement analysis, contributing hands-on to technical specifications, design documents, and architecture diagrams.
• Provide high-level cost estimation, clarify technical implementation details, lead requirement collection, evaluate solution options, and recommend optimal approaches.
• Track build activities against project plans, remove roadblocks, participate in design and change committees, and create technical work breakdown structures and task dependencies.
• Participate in Agile sprint planning, peer reviews, deployment preparation, and proactively contribute to risk management, scope management, and status reporting.
• Serve as technical leader for upgrades, modernization projects, and integrations, while evaluating emerging technologies and ensuring system health, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Mentor and guide junior and new team members, supporting knowledge development and learning path definition.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of progressive, hands-on experience in software engineering, system design, and application development.
• 2 to 4+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership role leading development teams.
• Proven experience supporting the architecture and delivery of large-scale systems, including modernization and digital transformation initiatives across multiple technology stacks.
• Strong hands-on expertise in object-oriented and distributed system design, microservices and event-driven architectures, performance optimization, fault tolerance, system integrations, APIs, cloud-native architecture, and modern development frameworks.
• Hands-on coding experience in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/Type Script, or Go, with strong knowledge of security architecture and experience producing architecture artifacts including design specifications and integration documentation.

• Experience with ERP or financial systems integration, including platforms such as SAP FICO or FICA.
• Hands‑on experience integrating with legacy applications, including mainframe-based systems, and modernizing or exposing them through APIs and service layers.
• Exposure to both product‑centric development environments and enterprise IT landscapes, with understanding of delivery models, governance, and scalability requirements.
• Exceptional analytical, problem‑solving, communication, stakeholder engagement, Agile, Dev Ops, and CI/CD capabilities with demonstrated…