Director, Software Development

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable Content & Asset Management platforms supporting internal and consumer-facing FOX products.
• Partner with Product Management and Business stakeholders to define technical strategy, roadmap, and implementation milestones for core platform services.
• Design and implement integrations that support hundreds of millions of users across FOX’s digital ecosystem.
• Drive adoption of generative AI, LLMs, and intelligent agent frameworks to improve platform capabilities, developer productivity, and user experience.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices including architecture reviews, code reviews, testing strategies, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead and mentor high-performing Agile engineering teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.
• Remove delivery roadblocks while maintaining predictable execution, quality, and sustainable team velocity.
• Collaborate closely with Architects, DevOps Engineers, and Infrastructure teams on system design, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Evaluate technical risks, establish engineering priorities, and develop execution plans aligned with business objectives.
• Champion modern software engineering practices including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Build an inclusive engineering culture focused on coaching, career development, and continuous learning.
• Collaborate across engineering organizations to improve processes, platform capabilities, and delivery outcomes.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading architecture and development of large-scale, distributed, high-performance software platforms.
• Demonstrated success managing and developing high-performing Agile engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in object-oriented software design and reusable architectural patterns.
• Strong experience developing applications using JavaScript and TypeScript, with a focus on Node.js.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions on AWS.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies.
• Experience integrating AI/ML models, including generative AI and LLM technologies, into production systems.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale software solutions requiring coordination across multiple engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable plans.
• Experience working with modern development workflows and engineering collaboration tools.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services including Lambda, ECS, OpenSearch Service, S3, SQS, SNS, and EC2 (Nice to Have).
• Experience with Python (Nice to Have).
• Experience working with MySQL, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch (Nice to Have).
• Experience with Docker and containerized application deployment (Nice to Have).
• Familiarity with GitHub-based development workflows (Nice to Have).
• Experience using Jira for Agile planning and project management (Nice to Have).
• Experience supporting media, broadcast, digital publishing, or content management platforms (Nice to Have).
• Experience building AI-enabled developer tools or intelligent workflow automation (Nice to Have).