Firm Enterprise Solutions Director - Group Engineering Leader

Work you’ll do

• Strategic Vision and Alignment: Accountable for defining, communicating, and continuously refining a compelling engineering vision that translates business objectives into actionable strategies. Ensure engineering teams are aligned and engaged, collaborating closely with product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security teams. Leverage technical artifacts and feedback loops to illustrate and evolve the vision.
• Advocacy and Technology Roadmap: Champion the integrated engineering strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring organizational awareness of objectives, KPIs, maturity, and compliance. Promote a culture of reuse, quality, and speed to maximize outcomes. Actively engage and energize teams around the engineering vision and its alignment with business and technology goals.
• Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Define and drive achievement of engineering KPIs, including system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability. Maintain and evolve engineering dashboards (planning, code quality, CI/CD, performance, security, operations). Contribute hands-on to design and code, mentor engineers, and resolve technical challenges. Inspire teams to adopt new technologies and best practices, fostering a passion for engineering excellence.
• Capability Evolution and Development: Being an engineering expert, mentor and develop full-stack engineering talent in modern practices such as frontend, microservices, cloud-native design, AI/ML/GenAI, data engineering, DevSecOps, and advanced deployment techniques like, Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time, enabling A/B testing approaches. Lead by example through thought leadership—speaking at conferences, publishing, R&D, or collaborating with academia. Cultivate a growth mindset and modern engineering behaviors across the team.
• Iterative Value Delivery: Embrace an iterative and incremental product development, favoring action, prioritizing rapid learning, and adaptation over extensive upfront planning. Apply leaning-forward approach and empirical methods to navigate complexity, ensuring each iteration delivers value and aligns with customer and business needs.
• Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Maintain a relentless focus on solving the most critical customer challenges. Align technical solutions with business outcomes, minimize unnecessary complexity, and drive teams toward high performance through continuous learning and collaborative execution.
• Tech/Quality Risk Management: Establish and evolve engineering standards, coding practices, and quality benchmarks to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring operational excellence and resilience.
• Influential Communication: Influence, persuade, and drive decision-making processes. Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. Craft clear, structured arguments and technical trade-offs, supported by evidence.
• Organizational Engagement and Collaboration: Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from team members to middle management to executives. Build collaborative and constructive relationships, co-creating and driving momentum and value across multiple organizational levels.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required. Enterprise experience is the most relevant factor.
• Excellent software engineering and product architecture/design foundation with deep understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/ER/DFD diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, code instrumentation, and messaging patterns (e.g., routing, transformation, construction, channel, endpoint, adapter, sequencing).
• 15+ years of proven experience with programming languages, technologies, and frameworks such as Python, C#, Java, Node.js, Golang, .NET Core, XML/JSON, REST/SOAP/GraphQL, SQL/NoSQL, SSO/MFA, and unit testing frameworks.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with building and scaling highly available, resilient distributed systems using cloud-native integration services on one or more hyper-scalers like Azure, AWS, GCP (e.g., API Gateways, Message Brokers, Queuing Services, Workflow Automation & Orchestration, ETL/ELT, Event Streaming, Real-Time Data Processing, Service Mesh).
• 7+ years of experience with defining and driving engineering KPIs, implementing engineering maturity models, and driving continuous improvement.
• 2+ years of experience in building production systems using cloud native Agentic AI services with right observability and operational excellence.
• Proven ability to lead organizational transformation and drive adoption of modern engineering practices at scale, including cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and developing diverse engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Deep understanding of methodologies and tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, CAST, etc., to deliver high-quality products rapidly.
• Strong understanding of secure by design, privacy, and compliance requirements in enterprise software engineering.
• Proven ability to align engineering initiatives with business and customer value, delivering measurable outcomes in agile environments.