Description
Onsite – Spartanburg, SC
We’re looking for an experienced Technical Engineering Manager, who can drive the end-to-end delivery of software, data, and platform initiatives across our lending ecosystem. This role is hands-on in planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
You’ll lead cross-functional delivery across software engineering, data engineering, and product teams — and you’ll also manage a small team of technical professionals.
This is a great fit for someone who thrives in complex environments, enjoys solving delivery challenges, and is comfortable translating between business needs and technical execution.
What You’ll Do
- Own the program plan, delivery roadmap, and executionfor initiatives within your assigned business area.
- Work directly with business leaders to clarify scope, define requirements, and establish success metrics.
- Run delivery across engineering teams — ensuring clear priorities, timelines, risk mitigation, and communication.
- Drive sprint/iteration planning, dependency tracking, and cross-team coordination.
- Build delivery discipline: consistent processes, documentation, governance, and post-launch reviews.
- Anticipate risks and interdependencies across systems (origination, servicing, data, integrations, etc.).
- Communicate program status, decisions, and blockers to IT and business leadership.
- Coach and lead a team of engineers and product owners to ensure alignment, quality, and accountability.
- Identify opportunities to improve how we estimate, plan, and deliver projects.
- Maintain strong relationships with business partners, vendors, and technology stakeholders.
What You Bring
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years technology project/program management
- 5+ years people leadership
- Experience leading multiple software, API, integration, data, and/or cloud projects
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, or hybrid methodologies
- Experience leading technical discussions with engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Lending, banking, auto finance, or regulated industry experience
- Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or AWS experience
- Product Owner or product-led delivery experience
- PMP, CSM, SAFe, or similar certification
Team Leadership
- This role directly manages a small delivery team (software engineers, data engineers, and product owners) and helps shape their development, performance, and delivery effectiveness.
- Work Environment and Physical Demands
- This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinelyusesstandard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position with a standard work schedule of Monday–Friday, with some schedule variations as needed.
Travel
This position may require up to 20% travel.
Required Disclosures
EEO Statement
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Notice that posting is no exhaustive list of responsibilities
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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