Senior Manager - Enterprise Application Engineering
WHY JOIN BEALLS?
At Bealls Inc., we've built our business around bringing brands, style and value to families while creating exceptional experiences for our guests for 111 years. A family-owned company with more than 660 stores across 23 states, we have remained true to our entrepreneurial spirit, core practices, and commitment to serving communities across the country.
We are a leading off-price retailer with a loyal customer following and growing national presence, providing us a strong foundation for continued success and long-term growth. Talented, dedicated associates are central to everything we accomplish. As our business continues to grow and evolve, we’re creating opportunities for associates to contribute in meaningful ways, build new skills, and grow their careers.
We believe great results come from working together. We foster a collaborative environment where associates are empowered to share ideas, collaborate across teams and take ownership of their development. Our leaders are committed to providing support, guidance and opportunities that help people reach their potential.
FUNCTION\:
The Senior Manager- Enterprise Application Engineering leads Bealls’ enterprise application development organization. The role advances a modern, cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure and an AI-augmented software development lifecycle, while owning end-to-end delivery\: capacity, execution, quality, support, and partner management across all business areas. It is equally accountable for building new capabilities and for keeping the established application portfolio stable, secure, and progressively modernized.
INTERACTION\:
Partners closely with Merchandising, Planning & Allocation, Store Operations, Logistics, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Ecommerce, Data Engineering, Information Technology leadership, and external delivery partners
SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES [ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS]
Team Leadership & People Development
Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers and engineering managers across the application development organization
Own hiring, performance management, and career development for the team
Set technical direction and foster a collaborative, standards-driven engineering culture
Delivery Management
Capacity Management — own capacity planning and resource allocation across concurrent product lines, balancing new development against the maintenance backlog
Sprint & Delivery Execution — run agile delivery — sprint planning, execution, and release management — to deliver predictably across all business areas
Support SLAs & Escalation — own production support, service-level commitments, and incident escalation for the application portfolio
Quality & Standards — set and enforce standards for code quality, testing, security, branch governance, and observability
Vendor Management — direct external delivery partners on scope, quality, throughput, and skills mix
Application Engineering & Modernization
Deliver cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure across web, mobile (.NET MAUI) and handheld/PDA surfaces
Drive the integration architecture toward Azure-based integrations and a general publish/subscribe pattern, retiring legacy ETL and file-transfer tooling, with transformation localized at the endpoints
Keep the established .NET and C# application portfolio stable, secure, and supported while looking for opportunities to modernize
Make sound architecture decisions in partnership with leadership and domain teams
AI-Enabled Delivery
Guide delivery of AI applications — conversational assistants, retrieval-augmented experiences, and agentic workflows — with appropriate grounding, access control, and human-in-the-loop review
Apply AI across the software development lifecycle to relieve capacity and delivery-timeline constraints, championing effective, measured use of AI development tools
Other
Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading engineers or engineering managers
Deep, hands-on-credible experience in the .NET / C# ecosystem across both modern .NET and older framework applications
Demonstrated delivery on Microsoft Azure — compute, integration, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD
Demonstrated ability to lead delivery across multiple concurrent teams or product lines, including capacity planning, sprint execution, quality, and production support
Experience designing or delivering integration / messaging architectures (pub/sub, event-driven, or service-bus) and migrating off legacy ETL tooling
Track record modernizing or maintaining an established application portfolio while shipping new capabilities in parallel
Experience managing external delivery partners alongside full-time staff
Strong architecture and technical judgment; able to communicate decisions to both engineers and executives
Preferred
Delivery experience with AI/LLM applications — retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, agentic patterns, and AI-in-the-SDLC practices
Retail, off-price, or merchandising / supply-chain domain exposure
Familiarity with .NET MAUI or mobile / PDA / handheld delivery for store and warehouse environments
Exposure to payment-device / PIN PAD applications and the associated security / PCI considerations
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