Director, Software Engineering

Key Skills

AWS, DevOps, Effective communication skills, Lambda

Job Description

• Attracts and empowers highly engaged, passionate, diverse, driven leaders to lead and inspire our engineering teams.
• Leads and enables teams of Engineering Managers, Software Engineers, and Technical Program Managers to deliver highly available, scalable, and performant services in the cloud.
• Showcases steadfast ownership of outcomes and enablement for their teams
• Role model for customer insight and focused delivery for both internal and external customers
• Energetically, passionately, and successfully works across organizational boundaries, collaborating to deliver amazing platform capabilities.
• Experienced operational leader that drives operational excellence and continuous improvement within their team and across the organization.
• Builds and champions agile engineering capabilities and quality engineering practices.
• Demonstrates leadership and expertise by building, operating, and optimizing automated self-service capabilities at enterprise scale.
• Performs a key leadership role in the technology transformation of the existing capabilities and innovation of new capabilities supporting business growth
• Leads and delivers results against the platform strategy roadmap for the enterprise. This includes setting vision, gathering requirements, gaining business consensus, performing vendor and product evaluations, mentoring business and development resources, and delivering solutions.
• Participates in product roadmap discussions, identifies key areas for improvement in the product and incorporate these goals into ongoing & future development initiatives

Essentials:

• BS or MS degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience. MS in CS or IS preferred with emphasis on data science, architecture and modeling or database design.
• Extensive recent experience with technology transformation, specifically designing, implementing, and operating automated, self-service solutions in AWS.
• 10+ years’ experience required in delivering enterprise scale solutions in support of on-line, secure, scalable, resilient software as a service delivery required.
• 7+ years of leading, inspiring, and growing engaged Software Engineering and Operations teams.
• Experience managing people managers
• Experience leading teams in researching new and emerging technologies to realize potential value, business fit, operations, and cost efficiencies of implementing such technologies is vital.
• Extensive experience with agile development methodologies and processes required
• Must possess the drive and passion for technology leadership with the ability to excite, mentor, and empower team members in various roles in the organization
• Must possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills and be able to work with others at all levels; effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.

Preferred:

• Deep Program Management Experience
• AWS Services (SNS, SQS, Lambda)
• Microservices and Micro Frontends
• Serverless Experience
• DevOps Experience

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$215,800—$323,800 USD