Job Description

The Director is a leader who can effectively guide and build teams to be successful by fostering an environment of trust, collaboration, and high-performance. This person must knock down technical, cultural, or organizational impediments, mentor lead technical staff, and collaborate with other product, architecture, and engineering leaders to develop a healthy organization. The Director should have a passion for delivering results and learning how new technologies and processes can deliver better software to our customers.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• BS/BA degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent experience, with an advanced degree, preferred.

  10 + years of relevant experience with at least 5 years' experience in a leadership role.

  Background and experience in the automotive industry a plus.

  Experience leading teams through cloud adoption a plus.

  7+ years of experience coding and delivering software as a team member.

  Strong software engineering and software architecture skills.

  Team player with excellent work habits and interpersonal skills.

  Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Manages a set of engineering teams.

  Overall responsibility for the engineering and architecture alignment of all solutions delivered within release train(s).

  Builds Scrum and leadership teams that perform at a high level. Fosters inter-team collaboration and productivity.

  Responsible for appropriately allocating teams to the highest value investments per business backlog and release planning. Formulate and communicate mitigation strategies for long-running projects, or projects where risk is high.

  Tracks and measures project work and programs to assess overall success.

  Responsible for ensuring the program scrum teams' overall morale and productivity continue to improve.