Director Engineering
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An Amazing Career Opportunity fora Director Engineering!!
Location: Sweden Stockholm
Job ID: 34713
The Director of Engineering is responsible for leading the engineering efforts within a specific business unit ensuring the successful delivery of highquality products and fostering a culture of technical excellence across distributed teams. This role requires a blend of technical expertise strategic thinking and people management skills across geographical boundaries and through an indirect people management model driven by influencing. While team members report directly to their local leaders the Director of Engineering will provide functional leadership ensuring alignment with broader product and engineering goals.
Who are we
HID Global powers the trusted identities of the worlds people places and things allowing people to transact safely work productively and travel freely.
We are a hightech software company headquartered in Austin TX with over 4500 worldwide employees.Check us out here:and Identity and Access Management Solutions Department:
HID Global Identity and Access Management Solutions products protect more than 85 million user identities. At HID Global we understand that no person device or workplace can go unprotected. This philosophy of Zero Trust drives us to create new advances in riskbased multifactor authentication leads us to secure user identities in converged access environments and drives the need to expand implementations with our industryleading digital certificates and PKIaaS solution to manage them at scale.
As our Director Engineering youll support HIDs successby:
Technical Leadership:
- Lead the development and of the technical roadmap for the business unit in alignment with product and business goals
- Provide guidance on technical architecture system design and engineering best practices ensuring the scalability reliability and security of solutions
- Oversee key technical decisions and ensure that teams are using appropriate tools frameworks and methodologies (e.g. Agile DevOps CI/CD)
- Stay current with emerging technologies and trends driving innovation and continuous improvement within the engineering function
Recruitment Team Management and Development:
- While engineering team members report to local leaders the Director of Engineering is responsible for providing functional leadership and mentoring across teams within the business unit
- Work closely with local leaders to ensure that the engineering talent aligns with the units technical direction and growth objectives
- Promote a culture of collaboration open communication and shared ownership across distributed teams
- Act as a mentor and coach to engineering leads and senior engineers within the function fostering a supportive and highperforming environment
- Ensure consistency in team development training opportunities and career progression across locations in partnership with local leaders
- Participate in the recruitment of talent focusing on mid and senior level roles by providing a second opinion of candidates in the final interview round
Product Delivery:
- Partner with product management and other crossfunctional teams to define product requirements timelines and deliverables
- Ensure timely and efficient delivery of product releases while managing tradeoffs between scope time and resources
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders especially across shared product efforts to drive consistency and reduce duplication of effort
- Ensure the adoption of agile methodologies sprint planning and efficient workflows that enable timely delivery and quick iteration
Process Optimization:
- Establish and continuously improve engineering processes including code quality standards testing release cycles and incident management
- Implement best practices for monitoring and improving performance using agreed frameworks such as DORA and SPACE
- Champion the adoption of automation DevOps practices and lean engineering methodologies to optimize workflows and improve productivity
Stakeholder Management:
- Act as the primary engineering point of contact for business unit leadership providing regular updates on progress risks and roadmaps
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders including product marketing and sales teams ensuring alignment with broader business objectives
- Work closely with location leaders to address regionspecific challenges and opportunities
Resource Planning and Budgeting:
- Plan investments in alignment with the directions given by the BA VP of Engineering including but limited to site strategy and shared resources/services
- Plan and manage the engineering budget for the business unit ensuring efficient use of resources and alignment with business goals
- Partner with applicable local leaders on their resource and budget planning to ensure alignment with the Business Unit needs
- Approve funding of Epics and Features as a Business Owner
- Ensure that sufficient investments are done in accordance with the agreed capacity allocation guardrails (Features Enablers Security and Compliance Technical Debt and Sustaining/Support)
- Collaborate with HR and recruitment teams in partnership with local leaders to attract hire and retain top engineering talent across multiple locations
What we will love about your background:
- Experience working in a matrixed organization or managing crossfunctional teams
- Ability to align engineering efforts with business goals and drive product innovation
- Strong problemsolving skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fastpaced environment
- Experience working in global teams across multiple time zones
- Previous experience within the Identity and Access Management space
- Ability to effectively communicate in the English language both verbally and in writing
- Ability to read and interpret technical journals specifications international technical standards etc.
YourExperienceand Education include:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or related practical proven experience
- 10 years of experience in software development or engineering leadership roles
- Deep understanding of software development life cycles agile methodologies cloud infrastructure and system design with 10 years of experience in these fields
- Proven experience with largescale systems distributed architectures and complex product portfolios which are consumed externally by customers and partners
- 10 years of experience managing and scaling engineering teams including remote and distributed teams
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills with a track record of developing technical talent and fostering inclusive collaborative team cultures by practicing servant leadership
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders
Who you are as a Team Member:
- Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal
- Willingness to roll upsleevesand dive deep into tactical work when necessary
- Good interpersonal skills willingness to learn and continue to grow professionally
- Strong team player and ability to work well with others
Why apply
- Empowerment: Youll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment learning and enhancing your expertise
- Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive ambitious change
- Integrity: You are resultsorientated reliable and straightforward and value being treated accordingly
HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day think of how many times you tap twist tag push or swipe to get access find information connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified trusted identity that can get you where you need to go without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team youll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group the global leader in access solutions. Youll have 61000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions supporting them with regular feedback training and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact and we encourage them to grow their role locally regionally or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board its important to us to have diverse inclusive teams and we value different perspectives and experiences.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
