Senior Director of Software Engineering, Blockchain Technology - Environmental Solutions

The Senior Director of Software Engineering will play a pivotal role in our strategic transformation from product to platform-centric software engineering practices while modernizing our technology stack and transitioning to agile development. These efforts are occurring within the broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend our market leadership and build next-generation cloud-based software platforms. In short, the Senior Director of Software Engineering will lead fundamental software product, engineering, organizational and operational changes.

As Senior Director of Software Engineering, you will be responsible to develop the portfolio’s technology strategy, develop and maintain web applications, develop future state platforms, migrate legacy applications onto new platforms and have a forward looking view on innovative ways to improve developer efficiency. You will be responsible for the SDLC, technical design, development, QA, build systems, software deployment, datacenters and cloud operations.  

The ideal candidate must be technical enough to be hands on and has the managerial expertise to direct multiple software development teams as they maintain existing software and build for the future.  Must have the ability to function as an architect and have an excellent customer focused attitude to lead our development teams. This position will require leading an agile transformation while maintaining the daily operations. Requires expert insight into the technical complexity of key components and must provide technical guidance to software engineering managers, architects, programmers, infrastructure, product management and other non-technical team members.  

Partnering, collaborating and aligning with Product Management and customer-facing peers will be key in identifying what needs development so we are always delivering value to our customers. As a strategic partner with the business and this position will lead the creation of a multi-year roadmap of how technology enables the business and drives value and efficiency at the same time.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with product management and co-lead an agile transformation

• Partner with customer-facing peers to create and deliver on multi-year roadmaps

• Manage and build teams.

• Lead the transformation from multiple applications/tools into a few platforms

• Migrate legacy applications onto the platform

• Set & vet the architecture direction of multiple applications in the portfolio

• Identify and consolidate duplicate product functionality, infrastructure environments and teams

• Automate manual tasks

• Ensure development teams estimate development effort by breaking down components into work items

• Ensure managers assign resources to work items and ensure deadlines are met

• Provide software development progress reports to executive management

• Occasionally get into the user stories and code to validate engineering direction and design

• Work closely with application support to ensure escalated items are addressed accordingly

• Ensure production operations of 99.99% uptime

• Partner with infrastructure to efficiently manage the cloud environments

• Implement and enforce cost controls

• Lead technology audit compliance based on SOC2 and SPGI guidelines

• Provide mentoring and guidance to team members

• Continually work on process improvement

• Stay current with modern software development technology

• Lead from the front and be a cultural change agent. Build a proactive, Get Stuff Done culture

Experience:

• Experience partnering with Product Management in an agile SDLC

• Prior experience building platforms

• Experience with Blockchain 

• Prior development and management of cloud base software with 1,000’s of users is a must

• Must come from a software development background. Prior experience as a software engineer

• Experience in a regulated industry or extensive SSAE16/SOC2 experience

• Intimate knowledge of Internet development, Java

• Experience with cloud software development

• Management of high-performing agile teams

• Management of on-shore and off-shore teams

• Management of a development team of 75+ FTEs (Dev, QA, BA, System Engineers)

• Previous architecture experience with large scale cloud based software

• Experience in Microservices Architecture to design, develop and deliver high scalable product using  Java/ Spring boot 

• Experience working with Serverless, Elastic Search, Redis, NoSQL, Kuber