Director of Software Engineering

Are you a software engineering executive ready to take on a new challenge? Our client develops an industry-leading safety and compliance solutions provider with customers across the U.S. and Canada. Recently named a Top Workplaces award winner across multiple locations in 2022. This position includes a highly competitive salary, great benefits package, and an exciting place to work.

Position Summary:

• Plays a pivotal role in the strategic transformation from product to platform-centric technology organization.
• Contribute at the leadership level to modernizing the technology stack, building out next-generation cloud-based software platforms, and integrating technology acquired via an M&A process.
• Will be responsible for partnering with other product/technology leaders regarding the SDLC, technical design, development, QA, and DevOps. Directs multiple software development teams in legacy product maintenance, and new product/feature development.
• Requires expertise in providing technical guidance to software engineering directors/managers, programmers, and other non-technical team members.
• Works with Enterprise Architect to develop enterprise-caliber architectural patterns and solutions for multiple products and drive the overall technical direction across the organization using on-prem and cloud solutions and modern software development patterns (TDD, DevSecOps, domain-driven design, microservices, containers, etc.).
• Responsible for establishing/enforcing organizational development/design standards and best practices, both with internal as well as third-party development partners/teams.
• Drive/evangelize continued expansion and maturation of agile/scrum development methodologies.
• Partner with product management and customer-facing peers to deliver on multi-year roadmaps.
• Provide software development metric tracking and reporting to executive management. Key contributor in developing, evangelizing, and enforcing the future-state technology strategy.
• Work closely with application support to ensure escalated items are addressed accordingly and partner with infrastructure to ensure on-prem and cloud environments are managed efficiently.

Responsibilities/Job Duties:

• Partner with Technology leadership and business leadership to create, execute and maintain a technology roadmap.
• Manage/direct the development and maintenance of web and desktop applications, the development of future-state platforms, and migrating applications onto the new platforms.
• Review and provide feedback/guidance on technical deliverables to software engineering directors/managers, programmers, and non-technical team members.
• Own the software development standards and best practices and drive adoption/adherence throughout the technology organization.
• Leverage knowledge and experience to make technology decisions that drive innovation and agility while minimizing risks and costs.