Duration
6+ Months
Location
IL-Naperville or MN-St. Paul, Hybrid 3-4 days onsite
Overview
Every Turnberry consultant belongs to a practice, an internal group of consultants and leaders with shared experience and expertise. Each of these practices aligns to one of the core services Turnberry offers to clients. As a Software Engineering Manager (QSR Intelligence team), you will join Turnberry's Digital Modernization practice, where technology and strategy combine to deliver exceptional digital experiences, empowering organizations to thrive in today's digital market.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership and People Management
- Lead and support a distributed team of engineers, fostering collaboration, accountability, engagement, and professional growth
- Create a high-performing team culture centered on transparency, ownership, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and guidance to engineers while empowering teams to operate independently without micromanagement
- Facilitate effective communication and alignment across geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders
- Identify team risks, resource gaps, delivery concerns, and organizational blockers early and proactively drive resolution
- Promote strong agile team dynamics and ensure consistent participation in Scrum ceremonies and delivery processes
Program and Delivery Leadership
- Own delivery execution and operational direction for the QSR Intelligence platform
- Translate strategic business goals and product vision into actionable plans, milestones, sprint objectives, and team priorities
- Coordinate execution across feature teams, product teams, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and delivery continuity
- Drive program momentum by establishing clear expectations, timelines, priorities, and accountability measures
- Ensure teams consistently deliver incremental business value aligned to sprint goals and organizational objectives
- Monitor progress, communicate status updates, escalate blockers, and provide transparency to leadership and stakeholders
- Support Program Increment (PI) planning activities and ongoing roadmap execution
Agile and Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Lead and actively participate in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives
- Partner closely with product owners, architects, business stakeholders, and development teams to clarify priorities and requirements
- Help teams effectively break down complex initiatives into manageable deliverables and sprint commitments
- Drive collaboration between engineering and business teams to ensure successful execution and alignment with enterprise goals
- Ensure adherence to Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), quality standards, and Definition of Done (DoD)
Technical and Strategic Oversight
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to support architectural alignment and delivery decisions
- Leverage existing tools, platforms, and architectural standards to maximize delivery efficiency and scalability
- Maintain sufficient technical understanding to facilitate decision-making, remove obstacles, and support engineering teams effectively
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading and managing software engineering teams of 7+ developers in agile environments
- 5+ years of software engineering management or technical leadership experience
- 7–10 years of overall experience within software development organizations
- Demonstrated success leading distributed or geographically diverse teams
- Strong experience driving agile delivery, sprint execution, roadmap planning, and cross-functional coordination
- Ability to lead engineers through influence, mentorship, and collaboration rather than direct oversight
- Exceptional communication, organizational, stakeholder management, and team facilitation skills
- Experience managing ambiguity, shifting priorities, and complex program execution
The salary range for this role is $140,000 to $205,000 or the hourly equivalent. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Turnberry Solutions offers benefits such as a comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision), disability and group term life insurance, health and flexible spending accounts, a utilization bonus, 401(k) with match, flexible time off for salaried employees, parental leave for salaried employees, and flexible work arrangements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with Turnberry, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
At Turnberry, we are committed to creating a positive and connected work environment for all and are fully invested in and focused on hiring and growing a diverse team of high performers. We believe that uniqueness in ideas, experiences, and backgrounds make us a better Turnberry: Turnberry is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age, ancestry, family medical or genetic information, gender identity and expression, marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics.
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Turnberry will provide reasonable accommodation with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please send an email to our Human Resources department at [email protected].
