Sr. Director, Engineering Lead

We are seeking a skilled People Leader with strong expertise in Engineering who will lead a team of Software Engineers to design, build, and maintain software systems that deliver business value. In this role, you will focus on code quality, architecture decisions, and reliable delivery while leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.

You will lead and grow a high-performing team to deliver AI-first digital capabilities and AI-native platforms, shaping both the technology and the talent that will define our digital future.

This role encompasses organization-wide technical strategy, people management and architectural direction. You will define strategic direction and be accountable for outcomes, shape organizational practices and maintain external industry visibility. You will handle organizational-scale complexity creating clarity from chaos.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Delivery: Drive delivery of the most critical technical initiatives and platforms, establish engineering delivery practices, and be the technical authority on high-stakes projects
• People: Lead team of technical leaders, develop their expert skills shape engineering talent strategy, build high-performing teams, and own succession planning
• Business: Shape technology-driven business strategy, represent technical perspective at executive level
• AI: Lead design of AI-augmented engineering workflows for your area, evaluate new AI tools, train engineers on effective AI usage, and balance speed with verification
• Reliability: Establish SLOs/SLIs across teams, build resilient systems, lead reliability initiatives for your area, mentor engineers on reliability practices, and drive reliability culture
• Documentation: Establish documentation standards across teams in your area, build knowledge management systems, and mentor engineers on effective technical writing
• Process: Drive process efficiency within your team, coordinate cross-functional technical work, and lead retrospectives

ROLE BEHAVIOURS

• Don't Lose Your Curiosity: Shapes organizational culture around curiosity and continuous learning; sponsors experimental initiatives across the organization; recognized as a thought leader in problem discovery; influences industry practices around innovation and exploration
• Set an example for your team: Consistently demonstrates a clear vision, positive energy, and exemplary expert actions that motivate your team of direct reports to strive for their highest potential
• Own the Outcome: Defines organizational accountability standards focused on business impact; shapes industry practices around outcome ownership in the AI era; sponsors transformational initiatives with full outcome accountability; recognized externally for ownership culture leadership
• Be Polymath Oriented: Enables cross-disciplinary learning across the team; inspires creation of holistic solutions spanning technical and business domains; embodies the Renaissance Engineer ideal; translates specialized knowledge into accessible explanations; thinks like a business insider
• Communicate with Precision: Enables spec-driven development practices; mentors others on precise communication; spans C-level executives to frontline workers; drives clarity as a core value across their function; represents the organization externally
• Think in Systems: Shapes systems design practices across their function; enables chaos engineering experiments; influences cross-team architecture decisions; creates clarity from complexity; bridges technical systems with business processes

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 12+ years of relevant experience.

EXPERT-LEVEL SKILLS

• Business Immersion: You are a recognized thought leader across business stakeholders. You influence business strategy, exemplify the business immersion mindset, and shape how engineering engages with the business.
• Data Integration: You lead definition of data integration patterns and best practices. You enable architecture of large-scale data flows, solve the most complex integration challenges, and are the authority on enterprise data integration.
• Full-Stack Development: You work comfortably in any language and rapidly acquire new skillsas needed and ensure same for your team of direct reports. You deliver production solutions in days not months, shape full-stack practices, and exemplify polymathic engineering.
• Multi-Audience Communication: You shape communication pra