Senior Director of Engineering

DTN is a global leader providing insights and analytics to our customers to feed, fuel, and protect the world.  We help people make critical business decisions that impact the agriculture, oil and gas, trading, and weather industries.

It’s a difference you’ve likely felt without even knowing it. From the food on your plate to the gas in your car to the last flight you took, chances are a DTN customer made it possible. And that’s just for starters. That’s why we say, “When our customers prosper, we all win.”

Job Description:

DTN is looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to join our team. This role is remote within the United States, and will oversee our Eco Data teams. 

What you will be responsible for:  

• Identify, establish, and implement a consistent data management approach across the organization in regard to areas such as: ingestion of 3rd party data, creation of data, data quality, etc. 

• Lead multiple teams using current tools and following current agile practices 

• Guide, coach, motivate and lead team to understand and deliver on business and career objectives   

• Effectively translate functional strategy and establish team objectives   

• Lead technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and work through technical issues   

• Provide proactive and clear communication to cross-functional leaders including developing mitigation plans and recommendations   

• Drive a culture of high performance and ensure performance concerns are identified and addressed in a timely manner   

• Actively contribute to managing and delivering on the current budget 

What you will bring to the role:  

• 8+ years engineering management experience 

• 10+ years of experience with software development 

• 5+ years of strong practical experience with both Agile and Scrum 

• Experience in handling multiple requirements from customers, product management, support and other key stakeholders and help negotiate the best possible solution to maximize product value with limited technical resources 

• Experience in leading and providing mentoring, coaching and guidance to engineering managers   

• Able to motivate, inspire and drive engineering teams to drive a culture of excellence and pride of ownership 

• Experience in working with Product Management to map product roadmaps to engineering schedules 

• Experience with summarizing and presenting key information, and proven ability to influence and drive decisions at the executive level 

• Proven ability to drive the engineering teams to be accountable for on-time delivery of quality features and products   

• Proven track record of successful rollouts for large enterprise software product suites    

• Strong customer service mindset and great attention to detail 

• Broad understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices    

• Ability to