Director of Development
Cincinnati, OH - USA
Job Summary
Director of Development
As the Director of Development at CostQuest Associates you will provide strategic and technical leadership for the development team responsible for building our data-driven software products and platforms. You will guide architectural direction oversee development operations and ensure the successful delivery of scalable solutions used by government agencies and major broadband industry clients.
In this role you will manage cross-functional development teams drive technology modernization and foster an engineering culture focused on quality security innovation and predictable delivery. You will work closelywith Product Data Science GIS and Executive Leadership to align development priorities with business goals and support CQAs continued growth in data analytics and the broadband consulting space.
Position Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the software organization spanning architecture engineering and cloud/platform operations.
Develop communicate and manage the technical roadmap for CQAs platforms APIs databases and analytic tools.
Lead and mentor development managers and technicalleads;develop hiring plans to support team growth.
Ensure high-quality scalable and secure development practices across all systems and services.
Oversee the design and implementation of full-stack architectures supporting large-scale geospatial and economic datasets.
Partner with Product and Data teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Drive best practices in CI/CD code quality automated testing and deployment workflows.
Manage development timelines prioritization and resource allocation across multiple concurrent projects
Oversee production support performance optimization and incident response processes
Develop documentation standards and ensure consistent adherence across engineering teams
Evaluatenew technologies tools and architectures to advance CQAs technical capabilities.
Ensure compliance with U.S. government security reliability and data-handling requirements.
Education:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or related field (Masterspreferred).
Required Skills:
10 years of software development experience including 5 years in technical leadership or a director-level role.
Proven leadership of development teams building cloud-native data or SaaS products.
Expertisein orchestrating modern full-stack development across backend and frontend using backend Python and C# and frontend JavaScript/TypeScript for both APIs/services and modern web UIs.
Strong knowledge of SQL and relational database design; experience with large complex datasets.
Experience with public cloud services acrosscompute/containers managed databases serverless networking object storage and API management.
Experience designing and developing scalable APIs and backend services.
Experience incorporating Artificial Intelligence techniques (ML/CV) into products and workflows with strong governance and security.
Familiarity with GIS and/or broadband-related datasets (preferred).
Excellent communication planning and collaboration skills.
Ability to work in a fast-moving environment and make strategic decisions with incomplete information.
As the Director of Development at CostQuest Associates you will provide strategic and technical leadership for the development team responsible for building our data-driven software products and platforms. You will guide architectural direction oversee development operations and ensure the successful delivery of scalable solutions used by government agencies and major broadband industry clients.
In this role you will manage cross-functional development teams drive technology modernization and foster an engineering culture focused on quality security innovation and predictable delivery. You will work closelywith Product Data Science GIS and Executive Leadership to align development priorities with business goals and support CQAs continued growth in data analytics and the broadband consulting space.
Position Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the software organization spanning architecture engineering and cloud/platform operations.
Develop communicate and manage the technical roadmap for CQAs platforms APIs databases and analytic tools.
Lead and mentor development managers and technicalleads;develop hiring plans to support team growth.
Ensure high-quality scalable and secure development practices across all systems and services.
Oversee the design and implementation of full-stack architectures supporting large-scale geospatial and economic datasets.
Partner with Product and Data teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Drive best practices in CI/CD code quality automated testing and deployment workflows.
Manage development timelines prioritization and resource allocation across multiple concurrent projects
Oversee production support performance optimization and incident response processes
Develop documentation standards and ensure consistent adherence across engineering teams
Evaluatenew technologies tools and architectures to advance CQAs technical capabilities.
Ensure compliance with U.S. government security reliability and data-handling requirements.
Education:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or related field (Masterspreferred).
Required Skills:
10 years of software development experience including 5 years in technical leadership or a director-level role.
Proven leadership of development teams building cloud-native data or SaaS products.
Expertisein orchestrating modern full-stack development across backend and frontend using backend Python and C# and frontend JavaScript/TypeScript for both APIs/services and modern web UIs.
Strong knowledge of SQL and relational database design; experience with large complex datasets.
Experience with public cloud services acrosscompute/containers managed databases serverless networking object storage and API management.
Experience designing and developing scalable APIs and backend services.
Experience incorporating Artificial Intelligence techniques (ML/CV) into products and workflows with strong governance and security.
Familiarity with GIS and/or broadband-related datasets (preferred).
Excellent communication planning and collaboration skills.
Ability to work in a fast-moving environment and make strategic decisions with incomplete information.
Compensation& Benefits:
Competitive Salary and Benefits
Job Type: Full-time Permanent
Bonus Payand Profit Sharing
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
401(k) matching
Health insurance
Company paid Dental Vision Life and LTD insurance
Employeeassistanceprogram
Flexible schedule
Health savings account
Vacation (15 days increasing with years of service) Sick (5 days)
(Days will be adjusted first year based on date of hire)
10 Paid Holidays
Parental leave
Professional developmentassistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ability to commute/relocate:
Reliably commute or planning torelocatebefore starting work (Required)to
Cincinnati OH 45202.
Work Location:
Hybridschedule-Cincinnati OH 45202.
Who We Are
CostQuest Associates is a broadband consulting firm offering a variety of specialized consulting services GIS data and application products. Our teamutilizesGIS (Geographic Information System) solutions to design develop and implement economic models applications and geographic data to support the broadband telecommunications ecosystem.
We are a small company with a large profile in constant pursuit of new challenges to expand our customers range from Fortune 100 companies such as AT&T and Comcast to government departments at the Federal and State we are proud of our accomplishments we define ourselves by the courage to always dowhatsright and the resolve to leave no stone unturned.
CostQuest Associates is based in Cincinnati Ohio with an office in Seattle Washington a presence in Washington D.C. and a network of experts across the US.
What We Do
CostQuest Associates services government clients and the broadband industry with services related to valuation appraisal public policy engineering cost and business excel in custom broadband telecommunication economics work and the creation of niche datasets and applications that enable companies and regulators to make effective informed decisions andallocatetheir capital more efficiently.
Clients such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the US Department of Commerce have relied on ourexpertiseto inform policy and regulatory addition our valuation and appraisal services support the tax and merger and acquisition initiatives for large services providers and other providers of broadband services.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability
CostQuest is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on any protected basis.
If you have a disability and needassistanceduring the application and selectionprocess as a result please let us know. Arrangements can be made to providean accommodationtoassistyou in applying for an open position using our online system or completing any other related paperwork interviewing or anyportionof the employment process. Please contact Betsy Thrush you needan accommodationor other assistance.
Visit our website and LinkedIn page to learn more about CostQuest:
Website: Experience:
Competitive Salary and Benefits
Job Type: Full-time Permanent
Bonus Payand Profit Sharing
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
401(k) matching
Health insurance
Company paid Dental Vision Life and LTD insurance
Employeeassistanceprogram
Flexible schedule
Health savings account
Vacation (15 days increasing with years of service) Sick (5 days)
(Days will be adjusted first year based on date of hire)
10 Paid Holidays
Parental leave
Professional developmentassistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ability to commute/relocate:
Reliably commute or planning torelocatebefore starting work (Required)to
Cincinnati OH 45202.
Work Location:
Hybridschedule-Cincinnati OH 45202.
Who We Are
CostQuest Associates is a broadband consulting firm offering a variety of specialized consulting services GIS data and application products. Our teamutilizesGIS (Geographic Information System) solutions to design develop and implement economic models applications and geographic data to support the broadband telecommunications ecosystem.
We are a small company with a large profile in constant pursuit of new challenges to expand our customers range from Fortune 100 companies such as AT&T and Comcast to government departments at the Federal and State we are proud of our accomplishments we define ourselves by the courage to always dowhatsright and the resolve to leave no stone unturned.
CostQuest Associates is based in Cincinnati Ohio with an office in Seattle Washington a presence in Washington D.C. and a network of experts across the US.
What We Do
CostQuest Associates services government clients and the broadband industry with services related to valuation appraisal public policy engineering cost and business excel in custom broadband telecommunication economics work and the creation of niche datasets and applications that enable companies and regulators to make effective informed decisions andallocatetheir capital more efficiently.
Clients such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the US Department of Commerce have relied on ourexpertiseto inform policy and regulatory addition our valuation and appraisal services support the tax and merger and acquisition initiatives for large services providers and other providers of broadband services.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability
CostQuest is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on any protected basis.
If you have a disability and needassistanceduring the application and selectionprocess as a result please let us know. Arrangements can be made to providean accommodationtoassistyou in applying for an open position using our online system or completing any other related paperwork interviewing or anyportionof the employment process. Please contact Betsy Thrush you needan accommodationor other assistance.
Visit our website and LinkedIn page to learn more about CostQuest:
Website: Experience:
Director
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About Company
A leading broadband consulting firm specializing in cost analysis, network modeling, mapping, regulation, and data science.