Senior Director, Software Development (Hybrid, Denver)

Senior Director, Software Development
About Us
Accuris specializes in SaaS technology solutions that leverage proprietary artificial intelligence and unmatched access to engineering data and insights embedded into workflows to solve problems, reduce risk, and accelerate innovation. We serve more than 6,000 global customers and 650,000 engineering end users across 100+ countries and dozens of industries—including aerospace and defense, energy, sustainability, construction, and architecture. In partnership with 400+ Standards Development Organizations, we streamline access to 2.8 million engineering standards to drive innovation and progress worldwide.

Position Summary
As Senior Director of Software Engineering, you will lead the development of Accuris’ next-generation product offering that supports model-based systems engineering (MBSE), requirements management, and interoperability between PLM and ALM systems. You will work closely with Product and Architecture leadership to shape strategy, align roadmaps, and deliver intelligent, scalable, and secure solutions that transform how engineering teams manage complexity across the product lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge AI to real-world engineering challenges while guiding high-performing teams to build products that define the future of digital engineering.

Job Responsibilities
• Lead and Scale Engineering Teams: Provide both technological and organizational leadership across multiple agile/scrum teams, ensuring clarity of vision, accountability, and consistent delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Ensure Alignment with Enterprise Architecture: Guide teams to produce strong technical designs that align with established enterprise architecture; collaborate closely with the Architecture team to ensure solutions are scalable, interoperable, and fit within the broader technology landscape.
• Champion Pragmatism & Excellence: Drive the right balance between technical elegance, functional requirements, and practical business outcomes while implementing and integrating new technologies.
• Deliver with Quality & Velocity: Take a leadership role in ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of products across the full application lifecycle—from design and development to deployment and support.
• Advance Modern Engineering Practices: Evolve and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines; collaborate with quality engineering teams to strengthen automated unit, regression, and integration testing.
• Build Cross-Functional Partnerships: Cultivate strong relationships with Product, Architecture, IT, business stakeholders, and external partners; ensure engineering outcomes align with enterprise priorities and customer needs.
• Develop People & Teams: Mentor and coach engineers, scrum leads, and technical leaders; foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and a culture of innovation across all engineering teams.
• Align Technology to Strategy: Maintain a deep understanding of business goals and long-term strategy, ensuring that architectural and technical decisions directly support customer needs and strategic objectives.
Experience:
• Proven Track Record: 15+ years of progressive responsibility in technical and engineering leadership roles, including 5+ years leading multiple agile development teams in a scaled environment.
• Technical Breadth with Depth in .NET: Ability to work across a variety of programming languages with deep expertise in the core project stack (.NET Core / C#).
• Modern Architectures & Cloud: Hands-on experience with microservices design, RESTful APIs, and SaaS/PaaS application development; strong background deploying and scaling cloud-native applications across multiple cloud providers.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Proficiency with container runtimes and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, including real-world experience running production workloads.
• Data & Event-Driven Systems: Experience architecting and developing solutions for high-volume data ingestion and processing using technologies such as Kafka, Redis, or Apache Storm.
• Continuous Delivery: Demonstrated success designing and evolving CI/CD pipelines, enforcing quality practices, and enabling rapid, reliable release cycles.
• AI & Search (Preferred): Familiarity with search and indexing technologies; experience applying AI/ML to engineering workflows is a strong plus.
• Business Acumen: Strong judgment in balancing technical trade-offs with business needs; able to prioritize effectively, collaborate across functions, and thrive in ambiguous environments.
• Leadership & Communication: Exceptional communication skills with a track record of mentoring, influencing, and bringing together diverse teams and cultures to achieve shared goals.