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About the Role

This hands-on technical leadership role is responsible for the development, modernization, integration, and support of custom business applications that enable critical operations. The position combines people leadership with direct technical involvement, guiding a team of software engineers while contributing to architecture, design reviews, troubleshooting, and strategic technology decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support activities.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making while developing team capabilities in cloud technologies, integrations, automation, AI, and modern engineering practices.
• Lead the development, support, and modernization of custom applications, APIs, and integrations, driving the transition from legacy systems to cloud-ready, API-first architectures.
• Reduce technical debt and architectural risk while evaluating and introducing technologies that improve scalability, maintainability, security, and business value.
• Partner with stakeholders, vendors, and technology teams to define integration strategies and ensure reliable, secure, and adaptable solutions.
• Improve software delivery practices through strong source control, testing, CI/CD, documentation, release management, and code quality standards.
• Partner with Information Security, Architecture and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with security, governance, and operational requirements.
• Promote disciplined change management and support operational stability across the application portfolio.
• Partner with business leaders, PMO, project managers, analysts, and technology teams to prioritize and deliver solutions that support strategic objectives.
• Provide effort estimates, resource planning, technical roadmaps, status reporting, and risk management.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to responsibly apply automation and AI-enabled capabilities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, support efficiency, or business workflows.
• Evaluate AI-assisted development and workflow tools pragmatically, ensuring usage aligns with security, compliance, and governance expectations.
• Foster research and development initiatives by encouraging the exploration, evaluation, and adoption of emerging technologies that can create measurable business value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including meaningful experience leading or mentoring software engineers in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated success leading custom application development and integration work supporting business-critical operations.
• Strong hands-on software development experience with C#/.NET and experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or similar technologies.
• Ability to evaluate and apply the appropriate technology stack based on business and technical requirements.
• Experience designing, developing, or modernizing applications using contemporary software development frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and modern programming languages.
• Strong experience with SQL Server and related data access technologies.
• Experience designing and supporting secure RESTful APIs, enterprise integrations, authentication frameworks, and cloud-based solutions.
• Experience with modern software delivery practices including Git-based source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, Agile delivery methods, and structured release management.
• Experience leading architecture discussions, code reviews, debugging efforts, and technical decision-making for medium-to-large initiatives.
• Experience working across multiple stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams to deliver solutions in a complex enterprise environment.
• Working knowledge of IT Service Management principles and their relationship to incident, problem, and change management.
• Experience in cable television, broadcast, streaming, media, advertising, rights, scheduling, or production finance environments.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and integration patterns in a phased, low-disruption manner.
• Experience with modern full-stack development technologies including JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Angular, Node.js, Python, or similar frameworks and platforms.
• Experience with Blazor, Entity Framework, Power Automate, or comparable workflow and automation tooling.
• Exposure to observability, logging, and application performance monitoring practices.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted development or automation capabilities in a controlled enterprise setting.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, and team development skills.
• Technical credibility and sound architectural judgment.
• Ability to influence across business and technology teams without relying solely on direct authority.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and business stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a high-accountability environment with competing priorities, operational demands, and delivery deadlines.
• Collaborative, pragmatic, and improvement-oriented leadership style.

Skills

• C#/.NET
• Python
• Java
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Go
• SQL Server
• RESTful APIs
• Git
• CI/CD
• Agile
• IT Service Management
• React
• Angular
• Node.js
• Blazor
• Entity Framework
• Power Automate
• Observability
• Logging
• Application Performance Monitoring
• AI
• Automation
• Cloud technologies
• Integrations
• Modern engineering practices

Work Type

• Occasional evening or weekend work may be required
• Some travel may be required

Experience Level

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience
• Meaningful experience leading or mentoring software engineers in an enterprise environment

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Salary/Compensations

• $127,200-$175,400 annually

About the Company

• Hallmark Media is a leading media company.