Director, Software Engineering

The Impact: You will play a crucial role in developing products for the Environmental Solutions group. As Director, you'll lead engineering teams and help define enterprise and application architectures, APIs, information models, and interoperability frameworks while managing technology.

Whats in it for you:

• Build and manage a team of talented software engineers with the ability to not only keep up with, but also pioneer, in this space.
• Collaborate with and influence leadership so that your teams work directly impacts company strategy and direction.
• Develop deep partnerships with engineering and product teams to deliver on major cross-functional measurements and testing.
• Communicate effectively at all organizational levels, including with executives.
• Provide success in partnering teams with dramatically varying backgrounds, from the highly technical to the highly creative.
• Experience instills a culture of ownership, collaboration, and results.
• Track record of recruiting talent in software engineering and data engineering.
• Ability to translate business concepts into a technical architecture
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define priorities and develop roadmaps
• Project management skills
• Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, strong attention to detail
• Team-oriented, energetic, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership in the execution and delivery of technology solutions to support business applications.
• Define, develop, and manage technical architecture for Environmental Solutions projects, including cloud infrastructure, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, and data platforms.
• Own and drive the Information Modelling workstream, creating comprehensive conceptual, logical, and physical data models to ensure consistency, flexibility, and scalability.
• This includes leading and coordinating activities throughout development, ensuring the appropriate use of standard models and software packages, as well as standard methods of integration, and developing common application services.
• Ensure that the best development processes and technologies are used in the design, construction, and implementation of applications.
• Ensures timely delivery of the application development projects without compromising the quality and performance of the system
• Drive innovation and continuous learning, staying informed about emerging technologies relevant to environmental and sustainability solutions.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in application development (including application architecture, information modelling, data governance, software development, and system integration).
• 6+ years of people management experience with 2+ years of managing managers
• Deep expertise and proven ownership of information modelling and data architecture practices, including metadata management, conceptual/logical/physical modelling, and data governance.
• Proven hands-on experience with API design, microservices architectures, cloud computing, container orchestration systems, containerization, ETL, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong technical knowledge of cybersecurity standards, risk management practices, data privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Exceptional documentation and diagramming skills (UML or equivalent).
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills, able to effectively communicate complex technical concepts across various teams and levels of the organization.
• Critical thinking, abstract problem-solving ability, strong analytical skills, and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience in designing and implementing systems related to commodity markets, including trading platforms.
• Familiarity with market mechanisms and regulations governing carbon trading and environmental credits.
• Experience working with environmental registries that track carbon credits, renewable energy certificates, or other sustainability-related data.
• Understanding of compliance requirements and best practices for data management within environmental registries.

Personal Attributes:

• Highly motivated, proactive, and capable of independent decision-making with emphasis on driving specific, measurable, and value-adding goals
• Creative thinker with a strong focus on efficient and reusable solutions and continuous improvement.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in geographically dispersed and diverse teams.
• Detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to excellence in architecture and systems design.