Director, Software Engineering

Job Description:

Position Description: 

Reduces technical debts and modernizes applications. Improves stability and resiliency of software applications and batch processes. Improves software engineering standards and quality to drive innovation within the team. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. Establishes software engineering standards, influences strategic decisions, and builds solutions according to Agile methodologies. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level. 

• Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams. 

• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs. 

• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit. 

• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables. 

• Consults on the documentation of major technology applications. 

• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components. 

• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues. 

• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization. 

• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives. 

• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects. 

• Advises senior management on technical strategy. 

• Researches and recommends new technologies. 

• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives. 

• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development. 

• Identifies and plans for future resource needs. 

• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit. 

Education and Experience: 

No degree and eight (8) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) coordinating the implementation of comprehensive end-to-end test strategy and automation frameworks for DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) software development projects and platform modernization initiatives. 

Or, alternatively, Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) coordinating the implementation of comprehensive end-to-end test strategy and automation frameworks for DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) software development projects and platform modernization initiatives. 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign edu