Associate Director, Lead Engineering Leader - PxE Talent

Strategic Vision and Alignment

You will contribute to defining, communicating, and continuously refining a compelling engineering vision that translates business objectives into actionable strategies. Ensure engineering teams are aligned and engaged, collaborating closely with product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security teams. Leverage technical artifacts and feedback loops to illustrate and evolve the vision.

You will advocate for the integrated engineering strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring organizational awareness of objectives, KPIs, maturity, and compliance. Promote a culture of reuse, quality, and speed to maximize outcomes. Actively engage and energize teams around the engineering vision and its alignment with business and technology goals.

Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization

You will drive achievement of engineering KPIs, including system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability. Maintain and evolve engineering dashboards (planning, code quality, CI/CD, performance, security, operations). Contribute hands-on to design and code, mentor engineers, and resolve technical challenges.

You will inspire teams to adopt new technologies and best practices, fostering a passion for engineering excellence. You will be an engineering expert, mentor, and develop full-stack engineering talent in modern practices such as frontend, microservices, cloud-native design, AI/ML/GenAI, data engineering, DevSecOps, and advanced deployment techniques like, Blue-Green, Canary to minimize downtime, enabling A/B testing approaches.

You will lead by example through thought leadership—speaking at conferences, publishing, R&D, or collaborating with academia. Cultivate a growth mindset and modern engineering behaviors across the team.

Capability Evolution and Development

You will establish and evolve engineering standards, coding practices, and quality benchmarks to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring operational excellence and resilience.

Iterative Value Delivery

You will embrace an iterative and incremental product development, favoring action, prioritizing rapid learning, and adaptation over extensive upfront planning. Apply leaning-forward approach and empirical methods to navigate complexity, ensuring each iteration delivers value and aligns with customer and business needs.

Customer-Centric Problem Solving

You will maintain a relentless focus on solving the most critical customer challenges. Align technical solutions with business outcomes, minimize unnecessary complexity, and drive teams toward high performance through continuous learning and collaborative execution.

Tech/Quality Risk Management

You will establish and evolve engineering standards, coding practices, and quality benchmarks to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring operational excellence and resilience.

Influential Communication

You will influence, persuade, and drive decision-making processes. Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. Craft clear, structured arguments and technical trade-offs, supported by evidence.

Organizational Engagement and Collaboration

You will engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from team members to middle management to executives. Build collaborative and constructive relationships, co-creating and driving momentum and value across multiple organizational levels.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required.
• Enterprise experience is the most relevant factor.
• 15+ years of proven experience with programming languages, technologies, and frameworks such as Python, C#, Java, Node.js, Golang, .NET Core, XML/JSON, REST/SOAP/GraphQL, SQL/NoSQL, SSO/MFA, and unit testing frameworks.
• 10+ years software engineering and product architecture/design foundation with deep understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/ER/DFD diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, code instrumentation, and messaging patterns (e.g., routing, transformation, construction, channel, endpoint, adapter, sequencing).
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native integration services on one or more hyper-scalers like Azure, AWS, GCP (e.g., API Gateways, Message Brokers, Queuing Services, Workflow Automation & Orchestration, ETL/ELT, Event Streaming, Real-Time Data Processing, Service Mesh).
• 5+ years of experience with defining and driving engineering KPIs, implementing engineering maturity models, and driving continuous improvement.
• 3+ years of experience with AI/ML; experience with the latest GenAI models is preferred.
• Deep understanding of methodologies and tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, CAST, etc., to deliver high-quality products rapidly.
• Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance requirements in enterprise software engineering.
• Demonstrated experience aligning engineering initiatives with business and customer value, delivering measurable outcomes in agile environments.
• Proven ability to drive adoption of modern engineering practices at scale, including cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and developing diverse engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred

• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.

Wage Disclosure

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $130,900 to $268,700.