Director of Engineering

Our client is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the software engineering function and shape its long-term direction. As a senior leader you will establish the engineering strategy provide oversight for complex software development programs and ensure that their technology people processes and investments support organizational priorities and customer needs.

You will lead and develop engineering managers and technical professionals foster a high-performing and inclusive culture and collaborate closely with Product Management Project Management Operations Quality and Security. You will also champion modern engineering practices operational excellence innovation and the delivery of secure resilient and scalable software solutions in a safety-critical environment.

The position is open to Canadian citizens and Canadian permanent residents.

Key Tasks

• Define and execute the engineering strategy (Software / Hardware / Systems) and multi-year roadmap in alignment with our clients business objectives product priorities and Group technology direction.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the engineering functions including organizational design workforce planning succession planning talent development and capability building.

• Lead coach and develop engineering managers technical leaders and development teams while fostering a culture of accountability collaboration innovation high performance and continuous learning.

• Oversee a portfolio of development initiatives ensuring priorities resources dependencies budgets schedules delivery commitments and life cycle management objectives are effectively managed & met.

• Ensure adherence to our client development processes secure software development practices quality standards software assurance requirements and applicable regulatory or certification obligations.

• Establish governance key performance indicators and reporting mechanisms to monitor engineering delivery product quality operational effectiveness workforce capacity and continuous improvement.

• Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality secure reliable maintainable and scalable software products and solutions.

• Provide executive-level oversight of technical delivery quality security and operational risks and ensure that appropriate mitigation and escalation plans are implemented.

• Partner with Product Management Project Management Operations Quality Sales and other stakeholders to align technology investments and engineering priorities with customer and business needs.

• Collaborate with our clients technology and engineering organizations to promote common standards reusable platforms knowledge sharing and effective integration across organizational boundaries.

• Guide major architectural and technology decisions including the responsible evaluation and adoption of cloud microservices automation artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

• Drive improvements to engineering processes tools development environments developer experience productivity and software lifecycle maturity.

• Establish resource plans and manage the engineering budget including staffing contractors tools infrastructure and other departmental investments.

• Represent our clients Engineering in leadership forums and communicate strategy priorities progress risks decisions and performance to senior management and key stakeholders.

• Support customer partner audit proposal and business-development activities by providing credible senior-level technical and organizational leadership when required.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in software engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field. A masters degree or additional qualification in technology business or management is considered an asset.

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in software development engineering or product development including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role with responsibility for managers multiple teams or a significant engineering function.

• Demonstrated experience defining and implementing software engineering or technology strategies that support organizational objectives and sustainable growth.

• Proven record of leading the development and delivery of complex high-quality software products or integrated software-intensive systems.

• Experience managing departmental budgets resource allocation organizational capacity portfolio priorities and workforce planning.

• Strong knowledge of modern software architectures distributed systems embedded systems RTOS cloud technologies microservices DevOps continuous integration and continuous delivery and secure software development practices.

• Experience with software assurance quality management cybersecurity compliance or certification requirements in safety-critical mission-critical or otherwise regulated environments is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to improve engineering governance processes performance measures development environments and organizational effectiveness.

• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect engineering decisions and investments to customer value risk quality and business outcomes.

• Exceptional leadership and people-management skills including experience coaching managers developing technical leaders supporting succession planning and building high-performing teams.

• Excellent judgment and decision-making ability with a demonstrated capacity to manage ambiguity competing priorities and complex organizational or technical risks.

• Excellent communication influence negotiation and stakeholder-management skills including the ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to executive customer and non-technical audiences.

• Experience working effectively in a matrixed international or cross-functional organization.

• Experience with software development methodologies and tools such as Agile Scrum tools (Jira Confluence Bitbucket Jama) and Microsoft Project.

Benefits

We offer you long-term career opportunities with a corporate culture where you count as a person. Guided by values such as partnership and mutual respect we attach importance to a team-oriented working atmosphere. We value fair and good working conditions. We offer an exciting work environment and a range of benefits focused on work-life balance professional development and flexibility.

Compensation:

Compensation for this position ranges from $185000 to $215000 annually plus a bonus and will be determined based on the successful candidates skills experience and qualifications.