Senior Director of Engineering
Location
Herndon, VA | United States
Job description
Position Title: Senior Director of Engineering
Location: Herndon, VA/ Open to remote work in the following states: NC, SC, GA, TX, NJ, WA, FL
Company Overview: Exostar is a leader in cloud-based software solutions for identity and access management, collaboration and supply chain management. Initially formed as a joint venture of A&D and commercial aviation industries leaders BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Rolls-Royce; Exostar now also offers solutions for health care and life sciences industries with leaders such as Merck. Today, Exostar connects and enables over 220,000 organizations in more than 175 countries worldwide.
Responsibilities: - Lead and manage a global team of engineers, providing technology leadership, guidance, support and mentorship.
- Manage and mentor multiple engineering managers across regions.
- Develop and implement engineering strategies to deliver products that customers love.
- Track and report on metrics to the executive leadership team. Identify, communicate and manage areas of focus and improvement.
- Create strategies to attract and engage strong technology talent globally and to actively grow skills of the team.
- Ensure consistent and predictable agile delivery across product teams.
- Build and foster a culture of technology innovation and continuous learning.
- Work collaboratively with Product Management, Operations, and Support teams to foster a one-team mindset.
- Create and maintain best practices, guardrails and standards across the Software Engineering discipline.
- Work with Software Architects and Product Managers to build out Exostar’s microservices platform on Microsoft Azure.
- Create or identify tools to help engineers deliver, design, test and monitor software systems that can be maintained without the originators continued involvement.
- Increase cross-training and collaboration between groups, breaking down silos in place.
- Lay out .NET, Java, UI (Angular), Data and Azure based technology roadmaps and provide organizational visibility on progress to deliver.
Qualifications - 15+ years of progressive experience in SaaS software development.
- 5+ years of leadership experience leading software development teams.
- Experience working with global and remote teams.
- Proven record of a high say/do ratio.
- Excellent communication skills with experience communicating to senior leaders and executives.
- Experience building technology teams by laying out recruiting and staffing strategies.
- Experience rolling out technology transformation and modernization of legacy software and development practices.
- Cloud development expertise on Azure/AWS/GCP including intimate familiarity with best practices.
- Experience driving and owning the SDLC and optimizing and implementing secure, stable continuous delivery practices.
- Experience in highly regulated domains is a strong advantage.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
Personal and Professional Attributes: - Empathy – Understands the team and stakeholders and their motivations. Works actively to make everyone they interact with successful.
- Pragmatic – Knows when to trade off short and long-term gains and can help guide stakeholders through these decisions while coaching them on the implications.
- Learning Oriented – Strives to learn more about the people he or she is working with, about the business, the business environment, technology and its application and the process being followed.
- Technical Debt Savvy – Becomes a driving force for addressing technical debt by guiding and coaching delivery teams on both avoiding new debt and removing old debt. Works with business leaders to understand the implications of technical debt and helps guide them in supporting the delivery teams to address it.
- Customer focus (internally/externally) – Capacity to anticipate customers’ needs and place customers at the center of own thinking and actions.
- Coaching skills – Knows how to provide constructive feedback, guidance and support.
- Continuous Improvement – Use of a systematic approach for evaluating current processes and identifying options to streamline them.
- Strategic Thinking & Vision – Able to see the bigger picture and have a long-term vision.
- Team Building – Understands the principles to unite a group into an effective team.
- Problem Solving – Troubleshoots quickly, but also know the right times to ask for help.
Exostar is an Equal OpportunitiesEmployer. The company provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or genetic information. Exostar is committed in providing equal employment opportunity for all person in all facets of employment including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, training, benefits, transfers and working conditions.
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