Director, Software Engineering

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction, planning and execution for Content Engineering leaders and teams to deliver business and customer focused roadmaps.
• Bring deep domain expertise and hands on experience with Software Engineering, Data products, AI in SLDC and System architecture, preferably in Supply Chain Domain.
• Strong Experience in cloud-based SaaS services, API & UI frameworks, and Microservice architectures.
• Hands on experience with GenAI and Agentic Frameworks
• Leading and mentoring geo distributed leaders and building high performance cross geo organizations.
• Develops relationships at all levels of the organization as a trusted leader and strong communication skills.
• Excel in all areas of strategy development, including project management, analysis, problem solving, verbal and written communication, consensus building, and people development.
• Understand the financial impacts and manage budgetary decisions for technology solutions and forecast future technology practices needed within the area of expertise.

Skill Requirements

• Experience in building and leading geo distributed teams to deliver critical roadmap items.
• Experience leading and mentoring leaders and managers to build high performance organizations.
• Deep domain experience in Data, SaaS and System Architecture space.
• Deep experience in building mission critical SaaS/Cloud based service
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and experience working with cross functional partners and executives.
• Experience with high availability architecture and design for mission critical applications.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines that do security scans, code quality scans, unit testing, and automated testing.

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a relevant area.
• 15+ years of Software Engineering experience in a SaaS environment.
• 7+ years' experience in an Engineering Leadership role
• Experience managing large teams (40+ people) and scaling a business appropriately based on available resources.
• Technical Strength in cloud architectures, application architecture, engineering processes and SDLC.
• Experience with offshore development