Engineering Director

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with product management, technical leadership, and peers to create product roadmaps, estimate work, and set priorities for your teams
• Leading and managed multiple cross-disciplinary, geographically dispersed software development teams delivering high-quality software solutions
• Defining, driving, and achieving objectives and key results for your teams
• Focusing on continuous improvement and increasing development velocity while maintaining code quality
• Promoting an effective working environment that is supportive and rewarding, aligned with our values and behaviors
• Recruiting, coaching, mentoring, developing, inspiring, and retaining great people
• Defining & driving the right decisions for tech systems, and acting as a gatekeeper for dev tooling, platforms, QA tools, CI/CD, release control, code quality etc
• Instilling ownership, accountability, and technical excellence in your team by driving efficient processes and implementing engineering best practice
• Monitoring the efficiency of resource use and managing costs appropriately
• Collaborating with key stakeholders across the organization on a variety of different projects ranging from consumer-facing features to backend functionality
• Keeping stakeholders up to date on all activities that affect their individual goals and being the point contact for work status

Requirements:

• 10+ years’ experience in software delivery at a senior level in a fast-moving high growth environment.
• You will have worked on significant cloud software projects, delivering robust, fast-paced solutions to significant business challenges, while always focused on continuous improvement.
•  You have up-to-date hands-on technical knowledge, are obsessed with your area of expertise, and stay current on up-and-coming practices in software development.
• You are a strong leader who will have in-depth experience managing large teams of Software Engineers, QAs, and DevOps and will have significant commercial budget responsibility.
• You enjoy working collaboratively and easily establishing effective relationships across all levels in the organization.
• You are an effective communicator who understands the need for strong stakeholder management.
• You inspire people through your impact and credibility and always demonstrate accountability and take responsibility for your deliverables while maintaining standards and hitting deadlines.
• You always embrace and respond to new challenges.
• Ideally, you will have worked in both scale-up and medium size technology companies.
• You thrive in a dynamic environment and have strong agency to get things done, with exceptional English communication skills with experience in a leadership position where clarity of communications can determine success or failure.