Director of Engineering

DTN is a global leader providing insights and analytics to our customers to feed, fuel, and protect the world.  We help people make critical business decisions that impact the agriculture, oil and gas, trading, and weather industries.

It’s a difference you’ve likely felt without even knowing it. From the food on your plate to the gas in your car to the last flight you took, chances are a DTN customer made it possible. And that’s just for starters. That’s why we say, “When our customers prosper, we all win.”

Job Description:

Help Us Shape the Future 

DTN is a global leader providing insights and analytics to our customers to feed, fuel, and protect the world.  We help people make critical business decisions that impact the agriculture, oil and gas, trading, and weather industries.  

It’s a difference you’ve likely felt without even knowing it. From the food on your plate to the gas in your car to the last flight you took, chances are a DTN customer made it possible. And that’s just for starters. That’s why we say, “When our customers prosper, we all win.” 

DTN is looking for a Director of Engineering to join our team. This role is remote within the United States and will oversee our rapid application delivery platform (“Eco Applications”) which includes UX, our design system, customer portal, common services, DevOps, Identity, and more. 
 
Eco Applications provides the foundational capabilities for consistently delivering delightful user experiences that are both secure and scalable across our growing application portfolio.

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead multiple teams using current tools and following current agile practices, 

• Guide, coach, motivate and lead team to understand and deliver on business and career objectives 

• Translate strategy to establish team objectives 

• Lead technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and work through technical issues 

• Provide pro-active and clear communication to cross-functional leaders including developing mitigation plans and recommendations 

• Drive a culture of high performance and ensure performance concerns are identified and addressed in a timely manner 

• Actively contribute to managing and delivering on the current budget 

What You Need: 

• 8+ years engineering management experience. 

• 10+ years of experience with software development. 

• 5+ years of strong practical experience with both Agile and Scrum. 

• Experience in handling multiple requirements from customers, product management, support and other key stakeholders and help negotiate the best possible solution to maximize product value with limited technical resources.  

• Experience in leading and providing mentoring, coaching and guidance to engineering managers. 

• Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple teams and departments – identifying any hurdles to progress and improving internal and cross-functional communications and processes. 

• Able to motivate, inspire and drive engineering teams to drive a culture of excellence and pride of ownership.    

• Experience in working with Product Management to map product roadmaps to engineering schedules.  

• Experience with summarizing and presenting key information, and proven ability to influence and drive decisions at the executive level.  

• Proven ability to drive the engineering teams to be accountable for on-time delivery of quality features and products.  

• Experience leading, managing and delivering with Agile processes.  

• Proven track record of successful rollouts for large enterprise software product suites.  

• Strong customer service mindset and great attention to detail. 

• Broad understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices 

• A thorough understanding of software development processes and workflows 

• Strong practical experience with both Agile and SCRUM 

• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly, and master diverse web technologies and techniques 

• Able to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences and levels 

• Able to facilitate resolution of technical conflicts and help the team with trade-offs 

• Strong understanding of the direction of technological innovation and ability to bring that expertise to the company 

What Will Make You Stand Out: 

• Hands on technical experience   

• Solid understanding of deploying web solutions to AWS 

• Expe