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Senior Director, Software Development

Spencer Thomas Group

Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 29 September 2026 (10 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 27 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Summary:
As Senior Director of Software Engineering you will lead the development of next-generation product offerings that supports model-based systems engineering (MBSE) requirements management and interoperability between PLM and ALM systems. You will work closely with Product and Architecture leadership to shape strategy align roadmaps and deliver intelligent scalable and secure solutions that transform how engineering teams manage complexity across the product lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge AI to real-world engineering challenges while guiding high-performing teams to build products that define the future of digital engineering.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead and Scale Engineering Teams: Provide both technological and organizational leadership across multiple agile/scrum teams ensuring clarity of vision accountability and consistent delivery of high-quality solutions.
Ensure Alignment with Enterprise Architecture: Guide teams to produce strong technical designs that align with established enterprise architecture; collaborate closely with the Architecture team to ensure solutions are scalable interoperable and fit within the broader technology landscape.
Champion Pragmatism & Excellence: Drive the right balance between technical elegance functional requirements and practical business outcomes while implementing and integrating new technologies.
Deliver with Quality & Velocity: Take a leadership role in ensuring on-time high-quality delivery of products across the full application lifecycle from design and development to deployment and support.
Advance Modern Engineering Practices: Evolve and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines; collaborate with quality engineering teams to strengthen automated unit regression and integration testing.
Build Cross-Functional Partnerships: Cultivate strong relationships with Product Architecture IT business stakeholders and external partners; ensure engineering outcomes align with enterprise priorities and customer needs.
Develop People & Teams: Mentor and coach engineers scrum leads and technical leaders; foster knowledge sharing collaboration and a culture of innovation across all engineering teams.
Align Technology to Strategy: Maintain a deep understanding of business goals and long-term strategy ensuring that architectural and technical decisions directly support customer needs and strategic objectives.

Experience:

Proven Track Record: 15 years of progressive responsibility in technical and engineering leadership roles including 5 years leading multiple agile development teams in a scaled environment.
Technical Breadth with Depth : Ability to work across a variety of programming languages with deep expertise in the core project stack (.NET Core / C#).
Modern Architectures & Cloud: Hands-on experience with microservices design RESTful APIs and SaaS/PaaS application development; strong background deploying and scaling cloud-native applications across multiple cloud providers.
Containerization & Orchestration: Proficiency with container runtimes and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes including real-world experience running production workloads.
Data & Event-Driven Systems: Experience architecting and developing solutions for high-volume data ingestion and processing using technologies such as Kafka Redis or Apache Storm.
Continuous Delivery: Demonstrated success designing and evolving CI/CD pipelines enforcing quality practices and enabling rapid reliable release cycles.
AI & Search (Preferred): Familiarity with search and indexing technologies; experience applying AI/ML to engineering workflows is a strong plus.
Business Acumen: Strong judgment in balancing technical trade-offs with business needs; able to prioritize effectively collaborate across functions and thrive in ambiguous environments.
Leadership & Communication: Exceptional communication skills with a track record of mentoring influencing and bringing together diverse teams and cultures to achieve shared goals.
Strong effective communication skills as to bring multiple personalities and cultures together to work towards a common goal.