Sr. Development Manager

About Wealth Enhancement

Wealth Enhancement is an independent wealth management firm with an endless passion for enriching the lives of our clients. We continually seek to perfect our craft of personalized financial planning with our team-based Roundtable and UniFi processes that go far beyond the standard approach. We proudly provide unique financial plans and investment management services to over 80,000 households from our over 140 offices - and growing - nationwide.

Since 1997, Wealth Enhancement has tirelessly raised the standard of wealth management with specialized knowledge and more attentive service that helps every client craft their future. For more information, please visit www.wealthenhancement.com.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Development Manager! This leadership role is responsible for managing and directing WEG’s developer resources, ensuring alignment with the company’s technology vision and architecture strategy. As Sr. Development Manager, you will drive innovative software solutions across the Salesforce, Workday, React, and Node.js platforms, ensuring best practices, scalable delivery, and technical excellence.

This is a Remote position.

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $175,000, exclusive of bonuses and benefits. We encourage you to apply and provide us with your compensation expectations when you do. We're big on open conversations, so, let's have one.

Primary Job Functions

Development Work Oversight

• Communicate potential code overlap risks to development teams and proactively recommend solutions.
• Provide regular, strategic project updates to technology leadership.
• Stay current with technology advancements and proactively anticipate company and platform needs.
• Ensure the implementation and consistency of established architecture standards across all products and initiatives.
• Create and maintain analytics reporting on development efforts to inform data-driven decisions.

Daily Management of Development Resources

• Understand, prioritize, and optimize the workload of development resources within product teams.
• Serve as a primary escalation point for development resources to address complex solutions and remove barriers.
• Anticipate technical skill requirements and collaborate with technology leadership to proactively address gaps.
• Manage and coordinate project allocations in partnership with the finance team, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Team Leadership and Development

• Mentor and guide developers to enhance their technical capabilities and support career growth.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing, and innovative team environment.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive, actionable feedback.
• Promote accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement within the development team.

Quality Assurance and Best Practices

• Ensure all development work adheres to platform, security, and industry best practices.

• Implement and enforce coding standards, governance, and development processes.

• Conduct code reviews to ensure high-quality, scalable, and maintainable deliverables.

• Continuously evaluate and improve development processes to enhance efficiency and quality.

• All other duties as assigned.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in computer science, information technology, or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years in a leadership role delivering software application projects
• Minimum of 3 years people leadership experience preferred
• Experience or exposure to Salesforce and Workday platforms preferred
• Salesforce Platform Builder certification preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to manage and mentor a team of developers
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to handle complex technical challenges

WEG hires employees and makes decisions about their salary qualifications based on factors such as the role to be performed; educational and professional experience, qualifications, skills and credentials; tenure, cost-of-living and demand for the role in the applicable market. To comply with state, pay transparency laws, we must disclose the entire salary grade. The entire salary grade for those who are classified as this level is $116,300 - $174,500. The