Director, Software Engineering

About the role

The Director, Software Engineering role at Ensemble is a strategic and technical leadership position. You will provide strategic and technical leadership across Ensemble’s software delivery organization, defining and executing the technology strategy that accelerates engineering effectiveness and enables scalable, secure, and resilient platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term business and platform goals.
• Shape architectural direction, standards, and engineering best practices across teams.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering approaches, scalable architectures, and high-quality delivery patterns.
• Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement of software solutions across multiple teams.
• Build and maintain shared frameworks, services, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.
• Ensure strong operational practices including observability, CI/CD maturity, automation, and security-first development.
• Represent engineering in portfolio reviews, technology evaluations, and enterprise decision-making.
• Lead technical design reviews, architecture forums, and complex troubleshooting efforts.
• Set quality benchmarks and ensure teams consistently meet standards for performance, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Drive resolution of systemic issues through data-driven root-cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Champion modernization efforts including microservices, serverless patterns, event-driven systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Evaluate emerging technologies—including AI-enabled development tools—and guide adoption where they drive measurable value.
• Lead and develop engineering managers, leads, and senior engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Build organizational capability through coaching, skills development, and effective team structures.
• Promote an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture rooted in high performance and craftsmanship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading managers or multi-team engineering organizations.
• Strong expertise in modern software architecture, cloud platforms preferably Azure, CI/CD, automation, and observability.
• Software engineering experience building production-grade applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET Core, or similar languages.
• Proven ability to set engineering strategy, guide architectural direction, and lead large-scale delivery.
• Demonstrated success developing leaders and building high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience driving modernization, platform evolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Exposure to AI-enabled development tools, code generation models, or ML-driven insights (e.g., Copilot, embedding models, vector search).
• Demonstrated advanced usage of AI and the management of teams using AI to lean in to process and technological improvements, to include the exploration, experimentation, and application of AI.

Qualifications

• This is a remote position; however, candidates must be willing and able to travel to and work onsite at client, temporary, or corporate office locations as business needs require.
• Must be inquisitive and demonstrate openness to innovation including AI to explore better processes and ways to alleviate friction and improve patient and client experiences.
• The position pays between $148,800-223,200, based on experience.