Senior Director of Software Engineering

• Technical Leadership: Set best practices and standards for software engineering, architecture, and DevOps, driving organizational success and technical vision. 

• Strategic Planning: Lead technology strategy, aligning investments with business priorities and product roadmaps. 

• Operational Excellence: Ensure delivery reliability, product stability, and client satisfaction through robust engineering frameworks and practices. 

• Global Impact: Lead and collaborate across distributed teams in the U.S. and the Philippines, influencing productivity, system architecture, and technology direction. 

• M&A Integration: Oversee technical due diligence, planning, and post-close integration for M&A initiatives. 

Qualifications 

• Experience: 10+ years of progressive engineering or technology leadership, including 5+ years in a senior leadership role. 

• Technical Expertise: Deep expertise in software architecture, cloud transformation, DevOps, and agile practices. 

• ERP/SaaS Leadership: Proven success leading ERP or enterprise SaaS development teams in a matrixed, global environment. 

• AI/ML: Strong record of leveraging AI/ML technologies to enhance product capability and delivery efficiency. 

• M&A: Demonstrated experience managing M&A technical integration from due diligence through full operational alignment. 

• Leadership: Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to influence across executive, product, and technical audiences. 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, OR equivalent professional experience demonstrating expert-level programming competency and proven technical leadership capability. 

• Expert-level proficiency in multiple programming languages and cloud-native patterns. 

• Advanced CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure as code. 

• Deep understanding of secure development practices and quality assurance methodologies. 

• Proven ability to influence technical decisions and establish technical vision. 

• Strong coaching skills with a track record of developing engineers. 

• Exceptional skills for technical documentation, presentations, and cross-functional collaboration. 

• Strategic thinking and change leadership. 

• Hybrid work environment with significant flexibility for strategic work. 

• Strategic planning sessions and technical review leadership. 

• On-call technical leadership during critical incidents and emergencies. 

• Travel for conferences, team meetings, training, customer engagements (up to 15%).