Director, Software Engineering – Security and Alarm

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and hold Engineering Managers accountable for their team's performance.

• Develop a management pipeline and succession plan through tailored development strategies.

• Recruit and retain engineering talent at both manager and senior individual contributor levels.

• Proactively address performance issues at the senior level.

• Foster a culture that emphasizes psychological safety, accountability, and engineering excellence.

• Oversee delivery health across various teams and sprints.

• Identify and mitigate systemic delivery risks by eliminating structural, process, and personnel barriers.

• Establish and monitor engineering health metrics that reflect delivery consistency, quality, and team engagement.

• Take charge of capacity planning, budget management, and headcount forecasting.

• Ensure effective Scrum practices throughout the organization and coach managers on facilitation and delivery methods.

• Collaborate with Architects and Staff Engineers to ensure architectural coherence and maintain technical quality.

• Manage decisions regarding technical debt and modernization, including choices to build, buy, or modernize.

• Convert business strategy into engineering priorities and roadmaps in partnership with Product.

• Provide updates on engineering status and strategy to executive stakeholders.

• Cultivate alignment among engineering, product, and business leadership.

• Act as the engineering representative in budget, headcount, and planning discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years of experience leading engineering managers or multiple teams.

• Demonstrated history of managing delivery, quality, and team health across several Scrum teams.

• Proven experience in hiring, developing, and retaining engineering managers and senior engineers.

• Experience in creating and implementing a technology modernization or platform migration strategy for established products.

• Proficient understanding of C#, .NET, and Microsoft SQL Server to evaluate architecture, quality, and performance trade-offs.

• Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to foster alignment among engineering, product, and business leaders.

• Proven track record in managing engineering budgets, headcount, and capacity planning.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience (preferred qualification).

• Familiarity with enterprise software for alarm monitoring, security, or other mission-critical sectors (preferred).

• Experience in transitioning legacy platforms to modern frameworks, such as migrating Visual Basic or other outdated codebases to .NET (preferred).

• Experience leading distributed teams across various time zones, including those with contract partners (preferred).

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools to enhance engineering productivity (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to valuing diversity.

• Encouragement of authorized AI tools where applicable to boost efficiency, quality, and innovation.

• Support for AI use subject to requirements for confidentiality, data security, intellectual property, accuracy, and human review.