Software Engineering Manager – Custody Platforms
$120,000–$217,500 year
On-site · North Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Lead software engineering teams responsible for custody platforms in financial services, owning end-to-end delivery across design, development, testing, production release, and support. Provide technical leadership across architecture, system design, and code quality, including mainframe (z/OS), COBOL, JCL, Db2, and cloud/open systems. Drive modernization initiatives including mainframe-to-cloud integration, API enablement, and event-driven architectures. Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness for mission-critical custody platforms. Embed and improve Agile delivery practices—backlog management, sprint execution, and release planning—while coaching teams and fostering engineering excellence. Collaborate with product, risk, operations, architecture, infrastructure, and vendor teams, and lead escalation during incidents and major releases. Balance hands-on technical depth with people leadership, guiding architecture, data models, and enterprise integration patterns, and promote automation and straight-through processing, including AI-enabled improvements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in technology or program management roles within financial services
- 6+ years of experience working in an Agile ecosystem
- Strong experience with custody platforms, securities processing, or post-trade systems (e.g., settlements, asset servicing, corporate actions)
- Experience with vendor engagement and management
- Experience leading globally distributed teams
- Hands-on experience with AI, machine learning, and Agentic AI in enterprise environments; familiarity with mainframe technologies and integration patterns preferred
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