Director Software Engineering & Development

As a Director Engineering, your role & responsibility will include the following.  

• Define the product roadmap and delivery planning. 
• Provides technical leadership in design, delivery, and support of product software and platforms. 
• Participate in driving technical architectural decisions for the product.  
• Prioritization of the features and deliverable artifacts 
• Augmentation of the product development staff.  
• Mentor managers to implement best practices to motivate and organize their  teams. 
• Prepare schedules, report status as well as make hiring decisions. 
• Ensure to provide proven ability to evaluate and improve software development  best practices. 
• Provide DevOps and other processes to assure consistency, quality and  timeliness. 
• Participate in interviewing as well as hiring final decisions. 
• Guide and provide input to all strategic as well as technical planning for entire  products. 
• Monitor and provide input for evaluation and prioritize change requests.
• Create and monitor the set of policies that establish standard development  languages, tools, and methodology; documentation practices; and examination  procedures for developed systems to ensure alignment with overall architecture.' 
• Participate in project scope, schedule, and cost reviews. 
• Understand and socialize product capabilities and limitations. 
• Identify and implement ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrate  accuracy and thoroughness. 
• Establish working relationships with external technology vendors. 
• Integrate customer requirements through the engineering effort for championing  next generation products. 
• Quickly gain an understanding of the company's technology and markets,  establish yourself as a credible leader. 
• Release scheduling. 
• Keeps abreast of new technologies and has demonstrated knowledge and  experience in various technologies. 
• Manage 3rd party consulting partners/vendors implementing products. 
• Prepare and submit weekly project status reports; prepare monthly reports  outlining team assignments and/or changes, project status changes, and  forecasts project timelines.
• Provide leadership to individuals or team(s) through coaching, feedback,  development goals, and performance management. 

• Prioritize employee career development to grow the internal pipeline of leadership  talent. 
• Prioritize, assign, and manage department activities and projects in accordance  with the department's goals and objectives. Adjust hours of work, priorities, and  staff assignments to ensure efficient operation, based on workload. 

Qualification & Experience  

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Information  Systems or related field or equivalent work experience required. 
• Relevant certifications also preferred among other indications of someone who  values continuing education. 
• 15+ years’ experience "living" with various operating systems, development tools  and development methodologies including Java, data structures, Scala, Python,  NodeJS 
• 8+ years of individual contributor software development experience.
• 6+ years management experience in a fast-growing product software  environment with proven ability to lead and engage development, QA and  implementation teams working on multiple projects. 
• Idea generation and creativity in this position are a must, as are the ability to  work with deadlines, manage and complete projects on time and within budget. 
• Proven ability to establish and drive processes and procedures with quantifiable  metrics to measure the success and effectiveness of the development  organization. 
• Proven history of delivering on deadlines/releases without compromising quality. 
• Mastery of engineering concepts and core technologies: development models,  programming languages, databases, testing, and documentation. 
• Development experience with compilers, web Services, database engines and  related technologies. 
• Experience with Agile software development and SCRUM methodologies. 
• Proven track record of delivering high quality software products. 
• A solid engineering foundation indicated by a demonstrated understanding of  
• product design, life cycle, software development practices, and support services.  Understanding of standard engineering processes and software development  methodologies. 
• Experience coordinating the work and competences of software staff within  functional project groups. 
• Ability to work cross functionally and as a team with other executive committee  members. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Communicate effectively with different business units about technology and  processes using lay terms and descriptions.  
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• Experience Preferred: 
• Experience building horizontally scalable solutions leveraging containers,  microservices, Big Data technologies among other related technologies. 
• Experience working with graphical user experience and user interface design. 
• Experience working with object-oriented software development, web services,  web development or other similar technical products. 
• Experience with database engines, languages, and compilers  
• Experience with user acceptance testing, regression testing and integration  testing. 
• Experience working on open-source software projects for Apache and other great  open-source software organizations. 
• Demonstrable experience training and leading teams as a great people leader.
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