Engineering Director

Responsibilities :

• Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment.
• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
• Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
• Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives.
• Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps.
• Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance.
• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases.
• Communicate to senior leaders regarding strategy direction and changes.
• Knowledge on Pega would be an advantage
• Work with a Java and ReactJS stack to build user experiences and business services, using American Express frameworks and cloud platform.
• Bachelor s degree in computer sciences or related experience with advanced degree preferred
• 13+ years of experience managing agile software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast paced, complex, and dynamic product development environment.
• A Full-stack expert having expertise in building web applications revolving around technology stacks like Java 11, Javascript, React JS, Node JS, Springboot, Spring, Kafka, Redis etc. Also, in-depth knowledge on Application design, Testing capabilities, Design & building Microservices.
• Extensive hands-on experience building distributed applications and managing the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies.
• Experience managing large engineering teams using a servant leadership mindset.
• Proven experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (i.e., Full Time Employees, not partners/contractors).
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, or another Agile application development methodology.
• Proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organisation, and in a variety of contexts.
• Knowledge CI/CD, system testing, test automation. Experience in infrastructure, application monitoring, platform stabilisation and service performance a plus.