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.
• Work closely with Compliance and Information Security to ensure standards and regulatory compliance requirements are adhered to.
• Key participant in design sessions, mentoring, and guidance efforts with 
• This role requires significant interaction and collaboration with other engineering groups, product, planning, operations, IT organizations, vendor development, and support groups, as needed.
• Candidate must have a passion for reducing complexity whenever possible.
• Candidate must have the ability to independently advise, communicate and implement elegant and efficient software design solutions.
• Candidate must have the ability to effectively collaborate with a team in designing and implementing creative technical solutions.
• Candidate must be comfortable in communicating technology and tooling recommendations to upper management with appropriate justification.

Qualifications required:

• Extensive hands-on experience with C#, .NET, SQL Server, Javascript frameworks (React, Angular, Ember), and designing, building, and implementing RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with LAMP stack development
• Experience with software project/test/bug management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Familiarity with Software QA Engineering processes and best practices (test automation, security testing, load testing, risk-based regression testing, smoke testing, etc.), and tools (Zephyr, Test FLO for Jira, Selenium, Test Studio)
• Experience with message bus/event streaming (RabbitMQ, Kafka) technologies and NoSQL databases
• Experience developing cloud-native applications for commercial cloud deployment (Azure, AWS, etc.), monitoring and optimization, and accompanying security/privacy considerations
• Experience with microservices and domain-driven design patterns
• Management of a development team of 50+ FTEs (Dev, QA, DevOps)
• Experience in leading and managing offshore development engagements/vendors
• Experience partnering with product management in an agile SDLC
• Experience developing a strategic technology roadmap
• Experience in technical leadership of projects and teams from design and architecture, through development and delivery
• Excellent communication skills are required.
• Excellent documentation/technical writing skills are required.
• Ability to create distributed frameworks that leverage .NET
• Familiarity and experience in DevOps (CI/CD)
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills

Qualifications desired:

• Experience administrating and developing Business Intelligence software solutions
• Certifications in the areas of database, agile development, SOA, and development tools from premier vendors

Education Required:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and minimum 12 years of relevant experience preferred.