Job Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Sr Manager Software Engineering – Digital Applications
Location: Northfield, IL
Reports To: Director of Digital & Ecommerce

Position Overview:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Digital Applications to lead the development and delivery of modern digital applications grounded in composable architecture and built for scale, agility, and user impact. This role demands a strong balance of technical depth, agile execution excellence, and business acumen.

You will be responsible for leading product-centric engineering teams and playing a critical role in business relationship management (BRM), actively partnering with business stakeholders to align technology initiatives with strategic goals. As a trusted advisor and strategic liaison between IT and the business, you’ll ensure that digital application capabilities enable measurable outcomes and drive continuous value.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Technology & Product Leadership

• Define and drive a technology roadmap that enables digital business growth through composable, scalable, and secure application platforms.

• Lead adoption of MACH architecture (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) and other modern patterns to accelerate delivery and adaptability.

• Support a product-based engineering operating model, aligning teams around value streams and business outcomes.

• Champion innovation, digital agility, and technical modernization in partnership with enterprise architecture and digital strategy teams.

Application Development & Agile Delivery

• Oversee digital application design, development, deployment, and lifecycle across multiple product lines.

• Implement Agile and SAFe best practices to ensure iterative delivery, fast feedback loops, and alignment to Program Increments (PIs).

• Leverage DevOps and CI/CD pipelines to enhance release velocity and system resiliency.

• Ensure engineering excellence through continuous integration, automated testing, code quality reviews, and scalable design.

Business Relationship Management & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a strategic Business Relationship Manager (BRM) between IT and business stakeholders across sales, marketing, operations, and customer experience.

• Act as a trusted advisor to business units—translating strategic needs into actionable digital initiatives and product roadmaps.

• Influence business prioritization through clear articulation of value, feasibility, and cost-benefit analysis of digital initiatives.

• Drive proactive engagement, stakeholder satisfaction, and strong alignment between IT execution and business goals.

Team & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers, architects, and scrum masters to deliver business value consistently.

• Recruit and develop top engineering talent while fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

• Encourage innovation through experimentation, learning cycles, and a fail-fast mindset.

Execution Excellence & Governance

• Drive project execution with a focus on meeting delivery commitments, quality standards, and budget constraints.

• Collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, data, and operations teams to ensure secure, compliant, and performant applications.

• Implement effective governance processes for intake, prioritization, delivery, and support of digital application initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s preferred).

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering with at least 5 years in leadership roles.

• Proven expertise in leading digital application delivery using modern web frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, .NET Core, Java).

• Strong technical experience with composable architecture, APIs, microservices, and MACH principles.

• Deep understanding of Agile/SAFe methodologies, value stream mapping, and lean delivery models.

• Demonstrated success as a Business Relationship Manager (BRM) or similar role partnering with senior business stakeholders.

• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills; able to influence across business and technology teams.

• Experience managing geographically distributed teams and vendor/partner relationships.

Why Join Us:

As the Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Digital Applications, you will play a mission-critical role in shaping our digital future. You'll lead engineering teams that build transformative products, collaborate closely with business stakeholders as a strategic partner, and ensure the successful execution of digital programs that drive real business impact.

Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

The anticipated salary range for this position:

The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp.

Every day, we’re focused on building a more diverse and inclusive company, one that recognizes, values and respects the differences we all bring to the workplace. From doing what’s right to delivering business results, together, we’re better. Explore our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page here.

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.