Director of Development

Primary Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership: Define and execute the long-term software engineering strategy for the organization.
  • Lead architecture and technical design decisions for enterprise applications and services.
  • Establish engineering standards, coding guidelines, architectural principles and development best practices.
  • Balance delivery of business initiatives with reduction of technical debt and platform modernization.
  • Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes and software quality.
  • Serve as the organization's senior technical authority for software engineering.
• Software Architecture & Development: Lead the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of enterprise software systems.
  • Review application architecture, database design, API design and implementation approaches.
  • Guide modernization initiatives involving legacy applications and platforms.
  • Develop scalable service-oriented and API-driven architectures.
  • Promote reusable software components and engineering consistency.
  • Ensure applications are secure, maintainable, scalable and supportable.
• Data Operations & Reporting: Provide strategic leadership for the organization's Data Operations function.
  • Partner with the Data Operations Manager to ensure reliable reporting, ETL processes, data synchronization and enterprise reporting platforms.
  • Oversee Microsoft SQL Server architecture, database performance and data integrity.
  • Support enterprise reporting initiatives utilizing Microsoft Power BI.
  • Ensure application architecture and database design remain aligned with long-term business needs.
• Software Delivery & Engineering Operations: Lead Agile software development using Azure DevOps.
  • Manage engineering roadmaps, sprint planning, backlog prioritization and release planning.
  • Establish engineering metrics around delivery, quality, stability, cycle time and operational performance.
  • Improve deployment automation and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement engineering governance including peer reviews, coding standards, release management and production change control.
  • Drive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, logging, observability and incident management.
• AI-Enabled Software Engineering: Develop and implement an enterprise strategy for AI-assisted software development.
  • Evaluate, deploy and govern agentic AI coding platforms including Claude Code and other enterprise AI development tools.
  • Establish engineering standards for responsible AI-assisted code generation, automated code reviews, documentation generation, testing, refactoring and technical analysis.
  • Design secure workflows that integrate AI agents into the software development lifecycle while protecting intellectual property and sensitive business information.
  • Lead adoption of AI-powered engineering practices that improve developer productivity without compromising software quality, maintainability, or security.
  • Develop governance policies for AI-generated code, validation requirements and human review processes.
  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies that provide measurable business value.
  • Mentor engineering teams on effective prompt engineering, AI collaboration techniques and best practices for integrating agentic development into daily workflows.
• Team Leadership: Recruit, hire, mentor and retain high-performing engineering talent.
  • Build an engineering culture focused on accountability, technical excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Develop future technical leaders within the organization.
  • Conduct performance management, career development, coaching and succession planning.
  • Promote collaboration between Development, Data Operations, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure and business stakeholders.
• Strategic Leadership: Partner with executive leadership to develop technology roadmaps.
  • Participate in strategic planning, budgeting, staffing and resource allocation.
  • Evaluate technology investments and software platforms.
  • Manage relationships with software vendors and technology partners.
  • Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Communicate engineering initiatives and project status to executive leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of enterprise software development experience.
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams.
• Experience managing technical managers and cross-functional engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise software architectures.
• Strong understanding of Agile software delivery methodologies.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Required Technical Expertise

• Software Engineering: C#.NET Framework / .NETASP.NET CorePythonRESTful API developmentSOLID PrinciplesDesign PatternsMicroservices
• Database Technologies: Microsoft SQL ServerStored ProceduresPerformance TuningDatabase DesignETL Processes
• Development Operations: Azure DevOpsAzureGitCI/CDAgile / Scrum

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with one or more of the following: Microsoft AzureReactInfrastructure as CodeEvent-driven architectureMicrosoft Graph APIOAuth / OpenID Connect / Microsoft Entra IDAI-assisted development platforms (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, or similar)
• Large Language Model integration and AI orchestrationPrompt engineering and AI workflow automation

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Collection Master software
• Experience in the litigation or collections industry
• Experience with Azure SQL or other cloud-based database services
• Experience supporting large-scale reporting or analytics platforms

Benefits

• PTO, Paid Holidays
• Medical Benefits, Competitive Salary and 401k and profit-sharing plans!
• Medical Benefits include - Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability.