Director, Engineering

Solera Corporation; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 3.500.000 - 5.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Solera seeks a Director of Engineering to own end-to-end delivery across products, balancing greenfield builds and modernization, with a platform-first approach and AI‑driven velocity. You’ll lead a multi‑layered team, coach managers, and drive architecture decisions while empowering hands‑on delivery through AI tooling.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Security, and stakeholders to translate strategy into shipped software, ensure CI/CD discipline, and maintain high engineering

Formación

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 6+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience owning end-to-end product delivery across greenfield and modernization projects.
• Hands-on with AI development agents and integrating AI into the delivery lifecycle.
• Strong architecture and system design expertise, with cross-team collaboration.
• Deep CI/CD, DevOps knowledge, and modern engineering workflows.

Responsabilidades

• Own delivery outcomes from strategy to build, launch, and operate.
• Directly manage and grow a team of managers, senior engineers, and engineers.
• Delegate to and orchestrate AI development agents as part of delivery capacity.
• Define tasks, review AI outputs, and enforce quality, security, and architecture standards.
• Lead architecture design and partner with central architecture teams.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated build–test–deploy flows.
• Drive a platform-first approach, maximizing reuse of shared services.
• Leverage the data lake to inform product decisions and enable AI features.
• Balance greenfield development with modernization to manage risk and value.
• Set engineering standards for quality, security, reliability, observability, and cost.

Conocimientos

Engineering leadership

Product delivery

AI integration

CI/CD

DevOps

Architecture design

Data lake

Platform reuse

Stakeholder communication

People leadership

Herramientas

CI/CD tools

AI coding tools

Cloud platforms

Descripción del empleo

Director, Engineering

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life’s other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation. For more information, please visit solera.com.

The Role

The Director of Engineering owns the end‑to‑end delivery of one or more products, holding full accountability for their technical health, roadmap execution, and business outcomes. You will directly lead a multi‑layered organization of managers, senior managers, and individual software engineers while also operating as a hands‑on leader who delegates and orchestrates work across AI software development agents to accelerate delivery. This is a modern engineering leadership role: part people leader, part technical owner, and part force‑multiplier who treats AI harnesses as a core part of the team's capacity. You will balance a portfolio of greenfield product builds and modernization of existing systems, driving both through a shared platform approach, our enterprise data lake, and strong AI tooling. A qualified candidate is a seasoned engineering leader who is equally comfortable coaching managers, owning architecture design, and getting into the details of CI/CD and delivery pipelines. You bring strong technical judgment, a bias for reuse and platform leverage, and the ability to translate business strategy into shipped software. This position connects strategy to execution. You will deliver reliable, scalable products faster by combining exceptional human teams with AI‑accelerated development.

What You’ll Do

• Own the delivery and technical outcomes of one or more products from strategy and roadmap through architecture, build, launch, and ongoing operation.
• Directly manage and grow a team of managers, senior managers, and software engineers - hiring, coaching, setting performance expectations, and building a high‑accountability, high‑trust culture.
• Delegate to and orchestrate AI software development agents as an integral part of your delivery capacity.
• Defining tasks, reviewing agent output, and establishing guardrails so AI‑accelerated work meets quality, security, and architectural standards.
• Own architecture design for your products, partnering closely with central architecture teams on cross‑cutting changes while retaining decision‑making authority for your domain.
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast, safe, automated build‑test‑deploy flows and strong engineering practices across all teams.
• Drive a platform‑first approach, maximizing reuse of shared services and platform capabilities rather than rebuilding, and contributing improvements back to the platform.
• Leverage the industry leading data lake to inform product decisions, power data‑driven features, and enable analytics and AI capabilities across your products.
• Lead a portfolio balancing greenfield product development and modernization of existing systems, sequencing investment to manage risk, tech debt, and time‑to‑value.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for quality, security, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across human‑and‑AI‑produced code.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Architecture, Security, and business stakeholders to align priorities and translate strategy into delivery commitments.
• Report on delivery health, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership, and manage capacity, budget, and resourcing across your organization.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading engineering teams, with proven experience managing other managers (managers of managers).
• A track record of owning and shipping products end to end, across both greenfield builds and large‑scale modernization/re‑platforming efforts.
• Hands‑on experience delegating to and orchestrating AI development agents or AI coding tools, with a clear point of view on how to integrate AI harnesses into the software delivery lifecycle responsibly.
• Strong architecture and system design skills, with the ability to own architectural decisions and partner effectively with central architecture teams.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD, DevOps practices, and modern engineering workflows (automated testing, infrastructure‑as‑code, observability, secure delivery).
• Experience building on platform / shared‑services approaches and leveraging data lake / data platform capabilities to accelerate delivery and enable data‑and‑AI‑driven features.
• Excellent people leadership skills hiring, coaching, performance management, and developing both managers and senior individual contributors.
• Strong business and communication skills, able to align technical execution with strategy and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.
• A bias for reuse, automation, and leverage and comfort operating amid ambiguity across a portfolio of products.

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs. Solera is the global leader in vehicle lifecycle management software‑as‑a‑service, data, and services. Through four lines of business – vehicle claims, vehicle repairs, vehicle solutions and fleet solutions – Solera is home to many leading brands in the vehicle lifecycle ecosystem, including Identifix, Audatex, DealerSocket, Omnitracs, LoJack, Spireon, eDriving/Mentor, Explore, CAP HPI, Autodata, and others. Solera empowers its customers to succeed in the digital age by providing them with a “one‑stop shop” solution that streamlines operations, offers data‑driven analytics, and enhances customer engagement, which Solera believes helps customers drive sales, promote customer retention, and improve profit margins. Solera serves over 300,000 global customers and partners in 100+ countries. For more information, visit www.solera.com.