Director, Software Quality Engineering

Job Description:

Director Software Quality Engineering - Grade 7

The Workplace Investing Quality Engineering (QE) team is seeking a multifaceted forward thinking organizational leader who is passionate about the customer and committed to quality. Strategic mentality coupled with technical competence of Quality practices drives our ideal candidate toward execution and delivery while they lead a distributed team of Quality Engineers across Workplace Investing.

As a Director of Software Quality Engineering you blend a deep commitment to optimizing delivery through agile and QE practices with a passion for coaching mentoring and developing associates. You are committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. You collaborate with other leaders to establish standards for your chapter influence strategic decision-making and build solutions in your area of expertise. You manage a team of chapter members who primarily work within autonomous squads across product areas but report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping associates grow and develop in their knowledge area and ensure alignment on the how of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 10 years of technical leadership: building an environment and culture to support software quality engineering practices of high quality
• BS or MS degree in a technical field such as computer science/engineering or related field
• Seasoned technical global people leader focused on leading coaching mentoring and developing people and teams to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency.
• Proven record of identifying and developing strategic quality engineering talent.
• A passion for Quality Engineering practices and proven record of implementing such practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong multi-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
• A curiosity and passion to learn new skills and modeling a culture of continuous learning mentoring and coaching
• Experience resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Actively share insights knowledge industry practices and developments across the organization
• You have strong communication interpersonal and relationship building skills and the ability to engage and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Bring a track record of continuous improvement and success in fostering agile ways of working.

The Team

The WI Technology teams design develop implement and support a suite of products and services used across Workplace Investing and beyond. Our goal is to create an outstanding user experience that delights our Workplace Investing associates anticipates their needs and matches services or solutions to support effective decision making. Our work embodies a globally distributed fast paced dynamic Quality Engineering organization that is using innovative technologies to create the next generation of high-quality best in class experiences. The successful candidate will collaborate with other Chapter Leaders people and product leaders aligned to Workplace Investing across the globe.

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