Dir. Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
• Recruit IT professionals with relevant business and industry experience, and develop, reward, and energize a competent, effective team within the technology organization. Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
• Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point, and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives.
• Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive the change required to execute product roadmaps.
• Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance.
• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex, and dynamic product development environment.
• Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large-scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies.
• Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining, and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (i.e., FTEs, not contractors).
• Experience with cloud-based SaaS applications.
• Experience with Containerization Technologies.
• Experience with integrating internal or external enterprise systems via APIs, Events, or other integration implementations