Manager, Software Development

Bring more to life.
Ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference in life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology? At Cytiva, part of Danaher, our work helps save lives. We provide innovative solutions that support everything from biological research to vaccines, medicines, and cell and gene therapies. You'll join a culture where continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation drive meaningful impact.

The Manager, Software Development reports to the Sr. Director, Software Engineering & Build Services and leads a global team within Enterprise Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers delivering business logic, enhancements, and integrations across enterprise platforms while driving engineering standards for code quality, security, testing, and peer reviews.
• Enable Agile and CI/CD delivery practices, ensuring quality gates, traceability, version control, documentation, and audit-ready SDLC compliance.
• Partner with Architecture, Analysis & Design, Release Management, and Operations teams to deliver scalable, supportable solutions and ensure deployment readiness and operational stability.
• Monitor and improve engineering performance through KPIs such as throughput, defect trends, cycle time, and technical debt.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Experience leading software engineering teams and delivering enterprise solutions.
• Strong knowledge of modern engineering practices, including Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, SDLC governance, traceability, and audit-ready delivery.
• Experience working in regulated environments (GxP/CSV, SOX) and using enterprise development toolchains, source control, and change management processes.

Nice to Have

• Experience delivering customizations and extensions on vendor-supported enterprise platforms.
• Experience with engineering quality metrics and test automation strategies.

Additional Information

• Up to 10% travel, including occasional international travel.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.