Sr Director Software Engineering

You will report directly to VP Engineering and youll work out of our Atlanta GA location on a Hybrid work schedule.

In this role you will impact the companys ability to drive innovation deliver high-quality products and achieve business objectives. Your strategic leadership technical expertise and commitment to excellence will contribute to the companys success reputation and growth in the industry.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES

• Engineering Strategy & Execution: Set a unified strategy across SRE platform and application teams; define measurable outcomes (reliability feature throughput cost/performance) and run operating cadences (QBRs scorecards postmortems).
• Product & Customer-Centric Thinking: Aligns technical priorities with customer needs and understands the business impact of engineering decisions.
• Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps: Lead cloud and hybrid architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP) for scalability and resilience; implement cost governance (FinOps) capacity planning and performance optimization with transparent unit economics.
• SRE & Production Excellence: Establish SLIs/SLOs/error budgets on-call practices incident response and blameless postmortems; mature observability (metrics/logs/traces/RUM) and progressive delivery (canary/bluegreen/feature flags).
• Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement: Build an Internal Developer Platform with paved roads (templates guardrails selfservice CI/CD artifact management secrets); treat shared services as products with clear SLAs and reliability targets.
• Application Development (Web + Data/AI): Guide architecture and delivery of secure scalable web apps leveraging data platforms and ML/AI; integrate model lifecycle (feature stores registries monitoring for drift/bias) with safe rollouts.
• Enterprise Architecture & Integration: Define reference architectures and integration patterns (APIs eventdriven streaming data pipelines) to enable interoperability; govern contracts versioning and change management.
• Quality Engineering & Test Automation: Champion automated testing strategies across unit integration performance and security layers; implement frameworks for continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines and ensure high coverage.
• Security Privacy & Compliance: Embed securitybydesign across SDLC and enforce data governance and privacy (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR/CCPA) with auditability and policyascode.
• Organization Talent & Executive Leadership: Structure and scale distributed teams; establish career frameworks and succession planning; manage budgets and vendor partnerships; communicate strategy and outcomes to executives and external forums.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SRE & Reliability Engineering: Experienced in implementing SLIs/SLOs error budgets and incident management; can guide observability strategies and lead critical postmortems when necessary.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture: Deep understanding of AWS/Azure/GCP and hybrid architectures; able to review designs for scalability resilience and cost optimization and validate IaC patterns.
• Platform Engineering & CI/CD: Proven track record building internal developer platforms and automated pipelines; can coach teams on GitOps progressive delivery and enforce security/compliance guardrails.
• Application Development & Architecture: Strong background in modern web frameworks (React TypeScript) and service architectures (microservices APIs); can mentor on design patterns and intervene in critical reviews.
• Data & AI Integration: Hands-on experience with data platforms and MLOps; able to guide model deployment strategies monitoring for drift/bias and ensure responsible AI practices.
• Quality Engineering & Test Automation: Skilled in establishing automated testing strategies across unit integration performance and security; can step in to optimize frameworks and coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Security & Compliance by Design: Expertise in embedding security controls and ensuring compliance with corporate security guidelines and policies; can lead risk reviews and remediation efforts.
• Enterprise Architecture & Integration: Experienced in API design event-driven systems and data pipelines; can guide integration strategies and resolve cross-team architectural challenges.
• Leadership & Delivery at Scale: Adept at roadmapping OKRs and portfolio management; can coach managers on balancing reliability speed and cost and step in for executive-level communication or vendor negotiations.

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL

In addition to a competitive salary leading-edge work and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer-subsidized Medical Dental Vision and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match Flexible Spending Accounts Health Savings Accounts EAP and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave Paid Time Off (for vacation personal business sick time and parental leave) and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information visit: click here ( application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.