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Senior Manager Software Development

Stearns Bank
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At Stearns Bank, we’re helping people, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and local communities nationwide reach their full financial potential. Sound like something you want to be a part of? If so, we’re currently looking for a Senior Manager, Software Development. This is a Connected Mobile Work Environment. 


 

Come see how we’re doing business unusual and charting our own path to reimagine a more inclusive financial services and banking ecosystem for all.

 

BENEFITS

Stearns Bank understands and respects that everyone is managing unique career, family, and wellness needs. That’s why we offer industry-leading benefits to employees to help them live healthy lives and bring their full selves to work every day. Benefits may vary for part-time positions. Some of those benefits include:

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan & 401k Plan 
  • Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision, Telehealth, Life insurance)
  • 12-week Paid Medical Leave
  • Paid Parental Leave: 21-weeks Primary Care Parent, 14-weeks Secondary Care Parent
  • $5,000 Family Care Reimbursement: Childcare, Elder Care, Student Loan Debt, Pet expenses, down payment assistance
  • PTO from 13 to 23 days depending on tenure. Cashout and Carryover options.
  • 10 Days Sick Time
  • 11 Paid Holidays
  • 4 Days Volunteer Time
  • 2 Days Self Allowance Time
    • Tuition Assistance

 

For this position, we anticipate an annual range between $150,000- $180,000. 

Final employment offers will be dependent upon the selected candidate’s relevant qualifications and experience.


 

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Manager of Software Development is a key leadership role responsible for guiding the development, modernization, and support of enterprise applications across the Salesforce Platform, Microsoft Power Platform, and .NET technologies.

 

This leader oversees multiple development teams while also contributing hands-on through architecture design, solution prototyping, and technical delivery. The Senior Manager ensures scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions that support Stearns Bank’s strategic objectives, operational excellence, and long-term digital transformation. Experience with AI-enabled development and automation is a strong plus.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership & Team Management

  • Lead, mentor, and support software development teams across Salesforce, Power Platform, and .NET environments.
  • Participate actively in coaching, technical direction, prioritization, and team development to build a high-performance engineering culture.
  • Establish and maintain engineering standards, coding best practices, and application lifecycle processes.

 

Architecture & Platform Evolution

  • Contribute hands-on technical work, including architecture design, prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and development contributions.
  • Drive application architecture decisions focused on scalability, maintainability, security, and long-term sustainability.
  • Define modernization strategies, design patterns, testing frameworks, CI/CD practices, and DevOps alignment.
  • Guide teams in balancing out-of-the-box platform capabilities with custom development when needed.

 

Application Development & Delivery

  • Participate in and oversee the delivery of high-quality releases and enhancements across all major platforms.
  • Ensure disciplined execution across requirements, technical design, development, testing, documentation, and release management.
  • Promote automation, efficiency, and simplification across development and support processes.

 

Integrations & Cross-Functional Alignment

  • Define integration strategies across Salesforce, Power Apps, .NET applications, core banking systems, digital banking, and third-party platforms.
  • Partner with enterprise architecture, information security, data teams, and business leaders to ensure compliance with regulatory and operational requirements.
  • Evaluate platform capabilities and emerging tools to align with business priorities and future technology evolution.

 

Strategic Leadership & Innovation

  • Serve as a thought leader in software engineering, architecture governance, and digital solution design.
  • Provide guidance on platform choices, development methodologies, and best practices that support enterprise transformation.
  • Champion the use of out-of-the-box capabilities before pursuing customization.
  • Support planning, prioritization, and long-term roadmap development.

 

REQUIREMENTS

  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 lbs.  
    • Ability to understand and carry out directions in English.
  • Ability to sit for extended periods of time, twist, bend, sit, walk use hands to twist, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, such as computer mouse, computer keyboard, calculator, stapler, telephone, staple puller, etc., reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, talk, or hear.
  • Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 4 years in engineering leadership or management roles.
  • Deep experience with Salesforce Platform, Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate, Phyton, and .NET development.
  • Strong background in software architecture, secure SDLC, integration patterns, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
  • Experience with AI-enhanced development tools is a strong plus.

 

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS

  • Salesforce Platform Developer I
  • Salesforce Platform Developer II
  • Microsoft Power Platform Developer Certification

 

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

  • Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect
  • Salesforce Administrator or Advanced Administrator
  • Salesforce Experience Cloud or Marketing Cloud certifications
  • Salesforce Architect track (Application Architect or System Architect)
  • Azure Developer or Azure Solutions Architect

 

THE COMPANY

Founded in 1912, Stearns Financial Services Inc. (SFSI) is a $3.2 billion, independently owned financial institution with locations in Minnesota, Florida and Arizona, and over 35,000 small business customers nationwide. Specializing in affordable housing financing, USDA and SBA lending, and small business and equipment financing, Stearns Bank is regularly recognized as one of the country’s top-performing banks and “Best Banks to Work For” by American Banker.

 

As a Star Tribune Top Workplaces award recipient and an award recipient of the Minnesota Business Magazine 100 Best Places to Work in Minnesota, Stearns takes pride in their team and holds their employees in extremely high regard. We offer a competitive salary and benefit package including our Employee Stock Ownership Program-one of the best long-term incentive programs in the nation. To learn more about Stearns Bank, visit www. StearnsBank.com

 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER /AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, or creed, religion, sex, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status, status with regard to public assistance, or any other class protected by Federal, State, local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.