Director of Engineering

Company Description

IDIQ is an award-winning company looking for talented individuals to join the team. We are passionate about fostering your unique skills, supporting your career goals and creating an exceptional work environment while providing outstanding solutions that our members trust.

IDIQ® is recognized as one of the fastest-growing industry leaders in identity theft protection and credit report monitoring. The IDIQ flagship brand is IdentityIQ®, offering real-time fraud alerts and credit report information to not only protect but also educate consumers. Popular IDIQ brands also include MyScoreIQ® for financial health and protection; Credit & Debt®, a credit and debt education-based membership platform; and IDIQ® Pre-Paid Legal Services℠, a leading provider of voluntary employee benefits.  As one of the fastest growing companies in the United States with consecutive spots on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list, we provide award-winning services and a positive work environment.  

We offer generous benefits such as paid vacation time, paid volunteer leave, health insurance, employer-match 401(K) contributions, continuing training opportunities and more. We also provide our staff with unending free coffee, relaxation rooms, game rooms and company events.

We value innovative thinking, excellent communication skills, on-your-feet problem-solving and a penchant for team collaboration. In this role, you are an integral part of our company’s success, helping create innovative solutions that serve our members’ needs.

If you are looking to join a growing company and work among talented peers, we encourage you to apply today!

Job Description

The Director of Engineering plays a leading strategic role in IDIQ’s digital platform strategy across the enterprise, driving the design, development, testing, deployment, and operations of the IDIQ platform ecosystem. The Director of Engineering applies their considerable technical experience and architectural vision to lead formal and informal design meetings and discussions to identify appropriate enterprise-wide and team solutions. This role is responsible for solving business problems with technology and using structured decision making to trade-off multiple solutions against each other to identify the optimum solution.

Responsibilities for this role include:

• Partner with Product Management to drive end-to-end product delivery processes in a product operating model, assisting with market fit, feasibility, design, architecture, and delivery to market
• Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their projects.
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements.
• Ensure overall company compliance with security regulations.
• Ensure software compliance with PCI DSS regulations.
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines.
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources.
• Hire engineers and coordinate their training.
• Be highly engaged with development teams, driving modern architecture into the enterprise, championing design patterns, leading code reviews, and giving 1 on 1 technical feedback to the team.
• Implement innovative technologies.
• Create processes and standards for selection, implementation, and support of systems.

Additional duties

• Able to handle and maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive consumer information in compliance with applicable privacy and data protection regulations
• Must follow all company policies and procedures regarding data privacy and protection and data loss prevention
• Regular and predictable attendance is required.
• Performs other job-related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience working in IT operations, supervising technology teams, and overseeing large information technology projects
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies and modern human-computer interfaces.
• Excellent understanding of computer systems, security, network and systems administration, databases and data storage systems, and telecommunications systems
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with teams across the entire organization.
• Excellent leadership and decision-making skills.
• Strong knowledge of project management principles.
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end d