Position: Application Development Director
You will be working on standardizing high-level processes; such as incident management, SLA agreement, etc. You will also be working on recruiting and hiring the best talents and figure out what positions we need to fulfill in this growing company. To be a successful director of engineering, you should have exceptional leadership communication and project management skills, years of management experience, and a belief in developing the skills and talents of others. Ideal candidates will have worked in companies that have seen major headcount growth and the challenges and processes that needed to be changed due to that growth. You will also have experience in identifying and navigating organizational changes, a keen interest in international trends in engineering and leadership, and above-average emotional intelligence.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership and management of managers responsible for engineering teams and providing overall technical direction.
Ensures applications, systems and network meets the agreed-upon SLA
Establish software engineering standards and guidelines for the software engineering organization.
Conceives team structure and constantly seeks opportunities to adjust team structure to maximize agility and efficiency.
Champion communications on technology and strategic initiatives.
Establish a fun, creative, and enjoyable environment balanced with strong collaboration and productivity.
Present issues and risks, and their business impact to management in a timely manner with proposed mitigation. Actively seeks and removes impediments to team success regardless of where they originate.
Human resource contributions associated with the team, including recruiting, hiring, performance evaluation, and coaching.
Continuously improves software development productivity, quality, predictability, and team morale.
Establish people management and processes to attract and retain the best talent in the software and technology space.
Qualifications:
10+ years in team leadership roles, which includes experience managing managers, and managing multiple teams
10+ years of overall software development experience with practical experience working in Agile and DevOps environments
Proven ability to lead teams of 50-100 engineers and advanced software development practices.
Strong leadership, critical thinking and analysis, and exceptional communication skills. Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization. Proven ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Highly entrepreneurial, creative, open-minded, highly collaborative and innovative
Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills; able to work well in a cross-functional, matrix management environment
Solid software engineering foundation indicated by a demonstrated understanding of product design of complex systems, which includes web-based enterprise platforms.
Experience with DevOps technologies and principles, with a proven example having implemented continuous delivery methodologies like continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous automated testing
B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent, M.S. preferred
