Director - Data engineering

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 career growth 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 required.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Leadership

• Proven experience leading large engineering organizations (50+ engineers preferred).


• Strong experience managing Engineering Managers and Technical Leads.


• Excellent stakeholder and executive communication skills.

Technical Expertise

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices.


• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.


• Expertise in API architecture, distributed systems, and enterprise application development. 


• Experience implementing DevOps, Git-based development, and CI/CD pipelines. 


• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies. 

Business & Delivery

• Experience managing multimillion-dollar technology programs.


• Expertise in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or scaled delivery frameworks.


• Strong risk, budget, and vendor management capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.


• Experience in AI/ML platforms, Data Engineering, and Cloud Transformation initiatives.


• Exposure to Kubernetes, Containers, Serverless Architectures, and Enterprise Platforms.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• On-time delivery of strategic initiatives.


• Platform availability and reliability.


• Engineering productivity and cycle time.


• Employee engagement and retention.


• Technology modernization and automation adoption.


• Customer satisfaction and business impact.

Typical Reporting Structure

Director of Software Engineering → Engineering Managers

→ Technical Leads / Architects

→ Senior Software Engineers

→ Software Engineers / QA Engineers / DevOps Engineers