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Position OverviewAt PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company's success.
As a Software Engineering Manager for PNC's Site Reliability Engineering Center, you will work within PNC's Information Technology Group and be located at one of our IT Hubs: Cleveland, Ohio; Birmingham, Alabama; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado or Phoenix, Arizona and manage the daylight shift.
The Site Reliability Center (SRC) is focused on establishing a culture of operational excellence by ensuring infrastructure, platforms, and applications adhere to SRC onboarding standards that improve reliability, enable proactive issue resolution, and reduce customer impact. This role supports the vision of building a collaborative technology organization across application, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver a stable, reliable, and secure environment. Key responsibilities include driving customer-centric service improvements, implementing proactive and preventative reliability practices, fostering cross-functional collaboration, enhancing monitoring and observability capabilities, promoting a blameless culture of continuous learning, and reducing operational toil through automation. The ideal candidate will help improve service performance, strengthen operational resiliency, and advance automation and observability initiatives that enhance the overall customer experience.
As a Software Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), you will lead a team responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical platforms that power PNC's digital experiences. This role blends technical leadership, hands-on problem solving, and people management, driving both production stability and continuous improvement across complex distributed systems. You will....
Manage SRE and related Teams; lead, coach, and develop a team of SRE engineers; set clear goals, drive accountability, and foster a culture of ownership and excellence; partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align technology and business objectives; support talent development, performance management, and succession planning; encourage innovation, continuous learning, and DevOps/SRE best practices.
Provide after-hours operational leadership and on-call support. Participate in an on-call leadership rotation supporting critical production services, major incidents, and high-severity customer-impacting events. Availability outside standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, may be required to support incident response, change events, escalations, and business continuity needs.
Lead incident management & remediation; manage and actively participate in end-to-end incident response for major (P1/P2) incidents; guide real-time triage, diagnostics, and troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and network layers; ensure rapid execution of remediation actions and service restoration; provide clear, timely communication to stakeholders during incidents; oversee post-incident analysis, reporting, and documentation to drive improvements.
Provide technical leadership in production support; serve as an escalation point for complex production issues; guide troubleshooting across: applications, infrastructure (Linux/Windows), databases (Oracle, SQL), middleware and integrations; ensure efficient log, metric, and system analysis; oversee batch/ETL monitoring and recovery processes; foster strong collaboration across engineering, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
Drive problem management & root cause resolution; lead root cause analysis (RCA) efforts for major and recurring incidents; ensure ownership and resolution of problem records; drive permanent fixes and systemic improvements to eliminate repeat issues, identify trends and patterns to reduce risk and improve stability; partner with engineering teams to resolve code defects and system gaps and promote knowledge sharing via runbooks, knowledge articles, and error catalogs.PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.Job Description

• Manages development projects, development teams and application support functions.
• Oversees multiple application programming and analysis projects which include development, installation and maintenance of application programs.
• Monitors and maintains adherence and compliance to quality standards on an ongoing basis.
• Maximizes staff contribution through professional growth and development, to increase teamwork and more effectively meet business needs.
• Analyzes applications to ensure that all systems that are developed, meet business needs and specifications.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

• Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

PNC also has fundamental expectations of our people managers. As a manager of talent in PNC, you will be expected to:

• Include Intentionally - Cultivates diverse teams and inclusive workplaces to expand thinking.
• Live the Values - Role models our values with transparency and courage.
• Enable Change - Takes action to drive change and innovation that will transform our business.
• Achieve Results - Takes personal ownership to deliver results. Empowers and trusts others in decision making.
• Develop the Best - Raises the bar with every talent decision and guides the achievement of all employees and customers.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred SkillsApplication Development, Business Management, Customer Solutions, Design, Group Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Release Management, Software Solutions, User Experience (UX) DesignCompetenciesAgile Development, Application Delivery Process, Application Development Tools, Coaching Others, Design Thinking, IT Environment, Software Process Improvement (SPI), System TestingWork ExperienceRoles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. At least 3 years of prior management experience is typically required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.EducationBachelorsCertificationsNo Required Certification(s)LicensesNo Required License(s)Language AssessmentsNo Required or Preferred Language AssessmentsPay TransparencyBase Salary: $110,110.00 - $204,490.00Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.Application WindowGenerally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 09/02/2026, although it may be longer with business discretion.BenefitsPNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visitpncthrive.com.

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At PNC we foster an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations to employment applicants and qualified individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to perform the essential functions of their positions.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law.

This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and, for any registered role, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.

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