US Technology - Software Engineering Director

Role Value Proposition:

As a Director, you will be responsible for end-to-end, long-term lifecycle and technical direction of IT product development teams including multi-phased initiatives from original concept through final implementation and maintenance; creating plans, schedules, estimates, allocation of people, and status sharing in an Agile environment. You will be managing full-stack software engineers on a fast-paced team building and running systems that are customer-first, leveraging modern, cloud technologies, cutting edge design, and integrations across the entire software stack. You will also work closely with our Product and Design teams, to help shape the solutions that we deliver to our customers. You will have an opportunity to impact every part of the system, foster and cultivate your curiosity and fill a critical role enabling the team to focus on delivering amazing technology and customer solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Manager key technology advisor
• Application roadmap that allows the product to deliver value in the short and long term
• Managing the overall technical implementation across the Product portfolio
• Remove barriers from Development teams to increase: CI/CD, Test Automation, Integration of Production Mgmt
• Establish and enforce best practices in code control, code reviews, unit testing, DevOps, and application maintenance
• Ensuring secure, high code quality across the entire team
• Identify risk and drive audits to conclusion
• Utilize Agile software development metrics, maintenance metrics and KPIs to help optimize product delivery
• Deeply manages financials and budgets
• People/Resource Management (hiring, development, engaging talent, utilization)
• Vendor accountability

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Ten plus years in full-stack software engineering
• Five plus years in leaning/managing a team of technologists
• Passion for technology, deliberately bringing technology into your own life and the work that you do
• Experience with activities, tools and techniques for converting business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
• Knowledge and ability to apply secure coding standards used to prevent security vulnerabilities
• Experience in manage effective teams through development opportunities, recognition and feedback for both onshore and offshore teams.
• Ability to build, deliver and operate complex, cloud-based systems
• Cross functional leadership: organize, motivate and lead those outside of the team

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• DevOps practices for CI/CD, release management, and automation using Azure DevOps
• Git-based repositories such as GitHub, Bitbucket or Azure Repos
• Container-based development leveraging Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Microsoft Azure Services: Functions, Kubernetes, CosmosDB,Storage, App Service
• Modern Identity and Access Management and general AppSec practices