Director of Software Engineering
- Southfield, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers, ensuring project goals are met, products are delivered efficiently while meeting high-quality standards, and overall alignment with Guardian’s long-term goals.
- Drives the software strategy for the entire organization.
- Consults with management regarding project specifics and determine requirements, boundaries and priorities.
- Provide effective employee performance management utilizing SMART goals, constructive feedback and coaching for improvement.
- Oversee the design, development, and implementation of all new software systems and/or enhancements to current software systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product vendors, and solution architects to translate business requests into work items for the development teams to implement;
- Develop and implement best practices for software development, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Effectively manage vendors to maximize value.
- Maintain an excellent understanding of the business long term goals and strategy to ensure that designs are aligned.
- Manage resource allocation, budgeting, and long-term planning for the software team.
- Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency;
- Assume a leadership role in ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of products through the entire application life cycle;
- Foster and maintain a culture of design excellence, innovation, quality, collaboration, planning, continuous improvement and responsiveness in the software engineering team.
- Work closely with Executive leadership to design and architect major customer features.
- Act as a strategist and champion for enterprise architecture and design principles.
- Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality and time to market imperatives.
- Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance.
- Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in cloud-hosted Azure and/or AWS environments.
- Drive the data engineering effort ensuring the availability and quality of data to the business
- Review new and existing systems design projects and procurement or outsourcing plans for compliance with standards and architectural plans.
- Strong people management skills, proven success in recruiting, creating and motivating a strong performing engineering team;
- Understanding of cloud based development methodologies and state of the art design patterns;
- Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development;
- A positive attitude with a service delivery mentality;
- Ability to work independently and supervise a diverse staff;
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and strong technical knowledge;
- Ability to coach/mentor IT staff members to function as a highly effective team;
- Enthusiasm for investigating and implementing new software tools/applications (off the shelf and internally developed);
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field required
- 3+ years of direct management experience of at least 5 on-site engineers;
- At least 5 years’ experience in developing scalable web applications and architectural standards;
- Proficient in at least one strongly-typed language (Java, C/C++, C#, etc);
- Experience with Javascript, Python, C++, or Go;
- Experience with Agile software development;
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics environment
- Experience with Azure and the available data related products such as data factory, piplelines, OneLake and Fabric.
- PowerBI or SQL experience;
- 4+ years of engineering leadership experience – managing multiple teams and/or locations