Director of Engineering

About the role

The Director of Engineering is responsible for the execution, delivery, organizational effectiveness, and operational excellence of DAPI's engineering organization. Reporting to the VP, Data & AI Product Innovation, they oversee Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Quality Engineering through their respective Lead Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop DAPI's Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Quality Engineering organizations through their respective Lead Engineers.
• Establish organizational structures, hiring, career development frameworks, succession planning, and workforce strategies that support long-term growth.
• Develop and maintain DAPI's engineering technology roadmap, ensuring platform investments support business priorities, scalability, security, and future growth.
• Drive a culture of accountability, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Manage performance, coaching, and leadership development for engineering teams.
• Align engineering capacity and organizational priorities with DAPI's strategic objectives.
• Own DAPI's enterprise engineering architecture, ensuring software, data, AI, quality, and cloud platforms operate as a cohesive technology ecosystem.
• Own engineering execution across DAPI's software, data, analytics, and AI portfolios.
• Establish delivery governance, operational metrics, and performance reporting to improve predictability, transparency, and accountability.
• Partner with Product and Delivery leadership to align engineering capacity with roadmap priorities and business objectives.
• Ensure platform reliability, quality standards, incident management, and operational readiness across all engineering functions.
• Resolve cross-functional delivery risks, resource constraints, and organizational blockers.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, Infrastructure, Security, and business stakeholders to align engineering efforts with organizational priorities.
• Represent Engineering in executive planning, enterprise architecture reviews, vendor evaluations, and strategic technology initiatives.
• Communicate engineering strategy, progress, risks, and investment recommendations to senior leadership.
• Ensure alignment between engineering, AI, data, quality, and enterprise technology strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field.
• 10 - 12+ years of progressive engineering experience across software engineering, data engineering, cloud platforms, quality engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience managing technical leaders, engineering managers, quality organizations, or multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• 3+ years leading multiple engineering disciplines simultaneously, including software, data, quality, platform, or infrastructure functions.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering organizations responsible for enterprise-scale software products, data platforms, AI-enabled solutions, and quality engineering practices.
• Experience managing engineering delivery across multiple teams and technology domains.
• Strong understanding of software engineering, data engineering, quality engineering, DevOps, DataOps, cloud architecture, and AI platform practices.
• Proven success building engineering organizations, developing leaders, and establishing scalable operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate engineering strategy and delivery performance to executive leadership.
• Knowledge of engineering organization leadership, workforce planning, and talent development.
• Enterprise software engineering, data engineering, and quality engineering operating models.
• DevOps, DataOps, quality engineering, platform engineering, and reliability practices.
• Cloud architecture, security, compliance, governance, and operational excellence.
• AI platform enablement and responsible AI implementation.
• Engineering quality management, test automation strategy, release governance, and continuous improvement practices.
• Financial planning, portfolio management, and organizational scaling.

Qualifications

• Cultural competency and the ability to communicate effectively in a culturally sensitive manner with both individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds.
• Lead / develop engineering leaders and high-performing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Manage complex portfolios spanning software, data, AI, and quality engineering functions.
• Align engineering execution with strategic business objectives.
• Establish operational excellence frameworks and engineering governance practices.
• Build scalable organizations capable of supporting long-term enterprise growth.
• Communicate effectively with executives, technical leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Balance innovation, quality, delivery commitments, operational stability, and risk management.

Skills

• Build and scale engineering organizations capable of supporting enterprise growth.
• Influence and collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Make informed decisions under ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Develop future engineering leaders through mentorship and coaching.
• Drive accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Balance strategic thinking with operational execution.

Benefits

For applicants who will perform this position in New York City or Westchester County, the proposed annual salary is $190,000 p/yr. to $200,000 p/yr. For applicants who will perform this position outside of New York City or Westchester County, salary will reflect local market rates and be commensurate with the applicant’s skills, job-related knowledge, and experience.

Pay

$190,000 p/yr. to $200,000 p/yr. for NYC/Westchester County residents, local market rates for others.

Schedule

N/A

Contact

New York Blood Center Enterprises (NYBCe) is a subsidiary of New York Blood Center (NYBC), founded in 1964 and serving the tri-state area for over 60 years. NYBCe delivers 500,000 lifesaving blood products annually to 150+ hospitals, EMS and healthcare partners, and one million blood products to 400+ U.S. hospitals annually. NYBCe also delivers cellular therapies, specialty pharmacy, and medical services to 200+ research, academic, and biopharmaceutical organizations. NYBCe's Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute is a leader in hematology and transfusion medicine research, dedicated to studying, preventing, treating, and curing bloodborne and blood-related diseases. NYBC serves as a vital community lifeline, helping patients and advancing global public health. For more information, visit nybc.org. Connect with us on Facebook, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn.