Engineering Director

Job Description

Purpose of the Role:

To lead the development of next generation distributed platforms, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving product quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications skills and a team player.

Responsibilities:

Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment.
Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives.
Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps.
Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps.
Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance.
Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.
Work with a Java , React JS and stack to build user experiences and business services, using American Express frameworks and cloud platform.
Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences or related experience with advanced degree preferred
13+ years of experience managing agile software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast paced, complex, and dynamic product development environment
A Full-stack expert having expertise in building web applications revolving around technology stacks like Javascript, React JS, Node JS, Springboot, Spring, Kafka, Redis etc. Also, in-depth knowledge on Application design, Testing capabilities, Design & building Microservices.
Extensive hands-on experience building distributed applications and managing the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies.
Experience managing large engineering teams using a servant leadership mindset.
Proven experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (i.e., Full Time Employees, not partners/contractors).
Experience with Scrum, Kanban, or another Agile application development methodology.
Proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.
Knowledge CI/CD, system testing, test automation.
Experience in infrastructure, application monitoring, platform stabilization and service performance a plus.