Senior Software Engineering Manager

Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Senior Software Engineering Manager within PNC's Lending Tech organization, you will be based in Denver, CO or Phoenix, AZ.

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager supporting Digital Payment Development, you will lead and grow a team of engineers delivering high-availability, secure, and maintainable payment and money-movement capabilities. You will manage engineering talent across product lines, build a culture of engineering craftsmanship, and drive technology modernization through sound architecture, clean coding practices, and disciplined SDLC execution.

• Manage a group of software engineers (and/or managers) across one or more Digital Payment product lines; ensure predictable delivery and operational excellence.
• Own execution of the SDLC end-to‑end (requirements alignment, design, build, test, release, and support), balancing delivery speed with quality and risk controls.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering practices that raise code quality, reduce defects, and increase reliability (e.g., peer review, automated testing, CI/CD health).

• Lead solution architecture and design discussions for Java/Spring Boot services and integrations; ensure designs meet scalability, resiliency, and maintainability needs.
• Champion clean coding standards and SOLID principles; drive pragmatic patterns that enable team autonomy and long‑term maintainability.
• Promote 12‑factor development principles for service configuration, observability, and deployability; partner with platform/ops to ensure operational readiness.

• Ensure healthy CI/CD pipelines and effective git branching strategies; align team workflows to reduce merge risk and improve deployment confidence.
• Drive production readiness: monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response improvements; ensure teams can troubleshoot effectively and safely.
• Model and reinforce adherence to access controls and environment governance; ensure practices respect production safeguards and entitlements.

• Own talent management: recruiting, mentoring, coaching, and enabling a culture of learning with a focus on engineering craftsmanship.
• Build and sustain high‑performing teams through clear goals, effective delegation, accountability, and supportive development plans.
• Foster technological innovation and adoption of current trends and practices while maintaining disciplined risk management.

• Java expertise, including modern language features and best practices for building maintainable enterprise services.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot (service development, RESTful APIs, dependency injection, security patterns, and testing practices).
• Solid database engineering knowledge across MySQL and Oracle (data modeling, performance tuning fundamentals, SQL fluency).
• Demonstrated mastery of SDLC disciplines and quality practices (design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, release readiness).
• Hands‑on understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern Dev Ops practices; ability to guide teams on build/deploy reliability and repeatable delivery.
• Proficiency with git workflows and branching strategies; ability to set standards that support team scale and production safety.
• Proven ability to lead solution architecture and design decisions and communicate trade‑offs clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Leads delivery through a ticket‑based workflow (e.g., Jira), ensuring clear acceptance criteria, prioritization, and traceability from intake through release and support.
• Establishes and enforces a “Definition of Ready” and “Definition of Done” for tickets,…