The Software Engineering Director will drive strategic IT initiatives across app dev, infrastructure and personnel. 

The candidate will have a strong background in planning, creating and executing IT initatives across an organization. Analytical skills are essential to understand the business and its technology and then drive execution of strategic IT initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, team building and effective decision-making skills.

DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES include, but not limited to:

• Provide leadership and accountability for the IT organization ensuring that deliverables are completed on time, on budget, and meet quality expectations.
• Drive and execute growth strategy
• Drive an implement new technologies within the organization
• Lead the planning and processes for organizational modernization
• Partner with executive leadership to implement growth strategy across IT and business units
• Work closely with the Process Director in planning and executing roadmaps, workflows and documentation
• Resource planning for specific projects as part of the Engineering strategic and implementation plans
• Work with 3rd party vendors, negotiate contracts
• Evaluate which IT services should remain outsourced vs which should be brought in house
• Collaborate with, Business teams, Software Engineering teams, vendors and suppliers
• Collaborate with other functional teams to drive best practices towards project completion

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proven experience in IT leadership in large organizations, across app dev and infrastructure projects
• Minimum of 10 years of technology leadership experience
• Preference for someone who has large corporate environment experience, who can bring that perspective to the team
• Proven analytical, problem-solving skills
• Strong acumen, attention to detail, and the ability to solve problems and clearly communicate topics across various audiences
• Strong ability to partner with executive leadership