Director of Engineering

Nicoll Curtin Limited; Galway; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nicoll Curtin Limited is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead a security-focused team delivering cloud-native applications in AWS. You will shape engineering practices, drive strategic planning and ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, define the technical roadmap, and partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver measurable security and business outcomes, while advancing automation, CI/CD, testing and platform

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technical teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale cloud-native applications in AWS.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of engineers and security specialists.
• Define the team's vision, technical strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Own the successful delivery of key engineering initiatives and security improvements.
• Work with engineering, product and business stakeholders to prioritise work and outcomes.
• Champion Secure SDLC practices across development teams.
• Drive improvements in automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing and release processes.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud engineering

DevSecOps

Secure SDLC

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Analytics

Job description

About the Role

An established global organisation is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to lead a team focused on application security within a modern cloud environment. This position combines people leadership, technical direction and strategic planning. You'll be responsible for building a high-performing team, shaping engineering practices and ensuring security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of engineers and security specialists.
• Define the team's vision, technical strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Own the successful delivery of key engineering initiatives and security improvements.
• Work closely with engineering, product and business stakeholders to prioritise work and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Champion Secure SDLC practices across development teams.
• Drive improvements in automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing, release processes and platform reliability.
• Establish engineering standards through architecture reviews, technical guidance and code quality initiatives.
• Use engineering metrics and data to support planning, prioritisation, capacity management and continuous improvement.
• Promote modern engineering practices while staying current with emerging security threats, technologies and frameworks.

Required Experience

• Extensive experience within Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps or Application Security.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale, cloud-native applications within AWS environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Proven experience implementing Secure SDLC across engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps principles and security-focused software delivery.
• Experience working with application security tooling is nice to have, including: SAST (Static Application Security Testing) DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) SCA (Software Composition Analysis) Secrets Management Secrets Scanning
• Experience improving engineering practices through automation, testing and CI/CD.
• Ability to define technical roadmaps and deliver against strategic objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering and business leaders.
• Data-driven approach, using analytics and engineering metrics to guide technical decisions.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with modern Application Security tooling such asCheckmarx, Veracode, Fortify, SonarQube, Snyk or similar.
• Background working within enterprise-scale engineering environments.
• Experience leading security transformation or DevSecOps adoption initiatives.

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