Dir. Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast-paced, agile environment. Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics. Recruit IT professionals with relevant business and industry experience, and develop, reward, and energize a competent, effective team within the technology organization. Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce. Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point, and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives. Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps. Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive the change required to execute product roadmaps. Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance. Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases. Qualifications 6+ years of experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex, and dynamic product development environment. Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large-scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies. Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining, and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (i.e., FTEs, not contractors). Experience with cloud-based SaaS applications . Experience with Containerization Technologies . Experience with integrating internal or external enterprise systems via APIs, Events, or other integration implementations