The Director of Software Engineering is responsible for leading multiple engineering teams, driving technology strategy, ensuring successful product delivery, and building a high-performance engineering organization. This role combines technical leadership, people management, delivery governance, architecture oversight, and stakeholder management to deliver scalable and secure software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership
- Define and execute the technology roadmap aligned with business objectives.
- Lead engineering managers, architects, and software development teams.
- Establish engineering best practices, standards, and governance processes.
- Drive innovation, modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Product & Delivery Management
- Oversee end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Ensure predictable and high-quality delivery across multiple programs.
- Partner with Product Management, Architecture, and Business teams to prioritize initiatives.
- Track delivery metrics, engineering productivity, and operational excellence.





Technical Strategy & Architecture
- Guide architectural decisions for scalable cloud-native platforms.
- Promote microservices, API-first, event-driven, and modern engineering practices.
- Ensure security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability of systems.
- Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and engineering excellence frameworks.

People Leadership
- Build, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers.
- Conduct workforce planning, hiring, succession planning, and talent development.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Lead performance management and growth opportunities initiatives.

Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with executive leadership on strategic technology investments.
- Communicate engineering progress, risks, dependencies, and business impacts.

Manage vendor relationships and technology partnerships when requ

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