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About the Role

As a Software Engineering Manager within Retail Studio, you will lead a growing team responsible for designing, building, and scaling platform capabilities that support the Production Validation Environment (PVE). This role combines engineering leadership, organizational development, and technical oversight within a fast-paced environment focused on innovation, continuous learning, and rapid delivery. The ideal candidate is an energetic people leader who is passionate about developing talent, building high-performing teams, and helping engineers succeed.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers supporting the Retail Studio and PVE platform.
Manage a distributed team, including offshore engineering resources, while establishing strong communication, accountability, and delivery practices.
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
Participate in hiring, workforce planning, team growth, and organizational development initiatives.
Create an environment where team success is prioritized above individual accomplishment.
Lead engineering delivery for capabilities that support production validation, synthetic-data-driven testing, and customer-impacting technology simulations.
Partner with product, architecture, business, risk, and operations teams to deliver strategic outcomes aligned with Retail Banking priorities.
Drive execution against aggressive timelines while maintaining high standards for quality, reliability, and scalability.
Support expansion of the platform across branch, care center, and future digital banking channels.
Provide technical guidance and oversight across modern application architectures, APIs, integrations, cloud technologies, and microservices-based solutions.
Partner with architects and senior engineers to establish scalable engineering patterns and best practices.
Maintain awareness of evolving technologies and help the organization adopt modern engineering approaches where appropriate.
Guide teams building solutions utilizing technologies such as Java, APIs, cloud services, and modern integration frameworks.
Communicate effectively with senior technology and business leaders regarding progress, risks, and strategic priorities.
Represent engineering teams in discussions with executive stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
Translate complex technical initiatives into clear business outcomes.
Champion Agile delivery practices, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps methodologies.
Ensure adherence to security, risk, compliance, and governance standards required in a financial services environment.
Drive operational excellence, resiliency, observability, and maintainability across platform services.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of technology industry experience.
Minimum 3 years of people leadership, team lead, or management experience.
Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technology solutions.
Experience managing distributed and/or offshore engineering teams.
Working knowledge of APIs and integration patterns.
Working knowledge of Microservices architectures.
Working knowledge of Cloud-based platforms and services.
Working knowledge of Modern software development practices.
Ability to lead teams working with technologies such as Java and modern backend frameworks.
Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and technical domains.
Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Skills

Application Development
Business Management
Customer Solutions
Design
Group Problem Solving
Process Improvements
Release Management
Software Solutions
User Experience (UX) Design
Agile Development
Application Delivery Process
Application Development Tools
Coaching Others
Design Thinking
IT Environment
Software Process Improvement (SPI)
System Testing

Location

Pittsburgh, PA
Dallas, TX
Cleveland, OH
Denver, CO
Birmingham, AL

Work Type

In-office

Experience Level

5+ years of industry-relevant experience
3 years of prior management experience

Education Level

Bachelors

Salary/Compensations

$100,100.00 – $223,080.00

Benefits

Medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
Dental and vision options
Employee and spouse/child life insurance
Short and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans
Dependent care reimbursement account
Back-up child/elder care
Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
Educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
Robust wellness program with financial incentives
Maternity and/or parental leave
Up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
Between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level and years of service

About the Company

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.
PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance.
PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Equal Opportunity

PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law.
This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and, for any registered role, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.
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