Director Engineering Strategy and Insights

Job Description

Position Summary: 
 
The Director of Engineering Strategy and Insights within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) is responsible for shaping and communicating the strategic vision for engineering development, driving innovation, and ensuring alignment with the broader organizational investment strategy. This role involves partnering with senior leaders to define and maintain development strategies, enable effective delivery, capture value, and drive governance. The Director will also lead competitive benchmarking and innovation initiatives to maintain the company's technology competitive edge. 
 
Key Responsibilities: 
 
1. Strategic Vision & Executive Narration: 
   - Partner closely with the VP of the OCTO, development leaders, and the Chief Technology Officer to define a comprehensive development strategy prioritizing velocity and innovation. 
   - Rationalize the development portfolio, ensuring alignment with the broader investment strategy. 
   - Define, maintain, and communicate a consolidated strategic view of development strategy, initiatives, and outcomes. 
   - Develop and deliver board and executive content, including strategy narratives, outcomes articulation, and CTO goals. 
   - Act as the chief delegate for the VP of the OCTO in related matters, performing ad hoc analysis and material creation as needed. 
 
2. Delivery Enablement: 
   - Maintain integrated modernization roadmaps, aligned with broader product roadmaps. 
   - Lead outcome-focused trade-off facilitation, providing strategic insights rooted in long-term vision and external benchmarking. 
 
3. Value Capture and Outcome Tracking: 
   - Review and recommend outcomes and metrics strategies for key development initiatives and processes. 
   - Partner with Finance to effectively track and report associated benefits. 
   - Collaborate with Finance in the investment planning process to fund strategic development initiatives, aligning investments with end-state architecture and product vision. 
   - Partner with M&A on the technical due diligence playbook. 
 
4. Governance: 
   - Drive effective governance to track outcomes and assess ongoing trade-offs. 
   - Define, mature, and standardize the development organizational governance model across all lines of business, aligning with enterprise governance. 
   - Conduct cross-functional monthly operational reviews. 
   - Drive automation and streamlining across governance forums in partnership with OCTO finance and merchant operations groups. 
 
5. Innovation: 
   - Lead competitive benchmarking standards and research across development. 
   - Establish M&A pipelines to accelerate value generation through a “development as a differentiator” focus. 
   - Enable AI and automation strategy development and competitive benchmarking. 
   - Drive competitive benchmarking for AI and automation across processes and tools for employees.

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