Engineering Director

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and execute the overall engineering strategy, aligning technology initiatives with business goals and product roadmap.
• Lead and develop multiple engineering functions, including DevOps, Mobile Platform Engineering, and QA/Testing, fostering a high-performance, accountable, and delivery-focused culture.
• Directly manage senior leaders (including Head of DevOps) and ensure alignment across all engineering domains.
• Drive the modernization of legacy systems and codebases, defining and executing a migration strategy toward scalable, maintainable, cloud-native, and microservices-based architectures.
• Lead the adoption and evolution of open infrastructure technologies, with a strong focus on OpenStack and related ecosystem tools.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, governance frameworks, and best practices across all teams.
• Own and improve the end-to-end SDLC, including CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary).
• Champion engineering excellence through coding standards, code reviews, and architectural best practices.
• Drive adoption of microservices architecture and domain-driven design principles where appropriate.
• Ensure systems are designed for high scalability and performance, supporting growing workloads and traffic.
• Define and implement strategies for horizontal and vertical scaling, load balancing, and performance optimization.
• Drive integration and effective use of AI-powered development tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude, Cursor).
• Partner closely with DevOps to ensure scalable, reliable, and automated infrastructure.
• Oversee architecture decisions for distributed systems and microservices environments.
• Define and track key engineering metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate).
• Ensure strong collaboration between engineering, product, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Lead hiring, mentoring, and development of engineering managers and senior engineers across all domains.
• Manage engineering capacity, planning, and prioritization across multiple teams and functions.
• Ensure security, compliance, and reliability are embedded into engineering processes.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with leadership experience.
• Proven track record in senior engineering leadership roles managing multiple functions (DevOps, QA, Mobile, Platform teams).
• Strong experience in legacy system modernization and migration.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, scalability, and microservices architecture.
• Rock solid experience and expertise with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and deployment approaches.
• Experience implementing engineering standards and governance.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor).
• Strong technical background in modern programming languages including C#, .NET, Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience with OpenStack and open-source infrastructure ecosystems.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure concepts.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering and QA best practices.
• Proven ability to scale engineering teams and systems.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.