Director Product Engineering

Responsibilities

• Define and sustain a clear platform vision aligned with corporate and business-unit strategy.
• Prioritize and execute initiatives per Steering Committee (SteerCo) directives and ROI.
• Make informed architecture decisions; champion cloud-native, event-driven, and DevSecOps patterns.
• Enforce enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
• Own communications with SteerCo, senior business sponsors, and peer platform owners.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for platform-related issues.
• Ensure deliverables meet schedule, quality, and performance targets (SLIs/SLOs).
• Drive continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and root-cause analysis.
• Lead multiple on-shore and off-shore software teams (managers & senior managers) delivering innovative technology solutions.
• Mature Agile practices; leverage data for predictability, capacity planning, and cost management.
• Coach and develop engineering and product managers, fostering a high-performance, inclusive culture.
• Define product strategies, OKRs, roadmaps, and success metrics; communicate progress to leadership.
• Balance new features with technical debt remediation and platform health.
• Partner with Architecture, Cyber Security, Data, and adjacent platform teams to align dependencies and integration patterns.
• Cook up release planning, change-management, and user-enablement activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or related field.
• 15 + years of progressive product-development experience, including 5–7 years leading multi-team engineering organizations.
• Proven expertise in Agile delivery models and modern SDLC, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
• Certifications: Agile Certified Professional (required); Certified Scrum Master (preferred); Certified Agile Leadership (preferred).
• Hands-on familiarity with Azure, GitHub, DevOps pipelines, API design, DataOps, OpenAI/GenAI, Angular (or comparable front-end frameworks), and event-driven architectures.
• Demonstrated success in setting platform vision, making architecture trade-offs, and engaging executive stakeholders.