Director of Software Engineering

Iowa Ag; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Four weeks paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Vylor Des Moines is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to translate business strategy into long-term technical direction and lead a multi-team engineering organization. You will own governance, budgeting, and the delivery health across the portfolio.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of experience, including leading managers, and a track record of transforming organizations, modernizing platforms, and managing risk with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a computing field or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading a multi-team engineering organization, including leading managers.
• Experience translating strategy into multi-year direction and delivering against it.
• Experience owning portfolio results, delivery health, budget, and investment return.
• Experience setting governance for engineering excellence, resilience, and security.

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy into multi-year technical and organizational direction across the engineering function.
• Balance customer value, risk, architecture, data, and operations across portfolios.
• Set governance for engineering excellence, resilience, and security.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Strategy awareness

Governance and budgeting

Security/compliance oversight

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computing

Job description

### Job Details#### Job Title:Director of Software Engineering#### Location:,, ,#### Company:#### Industry Sector:#### Industry Type:#### Career Type:#### Job Type:Full Time#### Minimum Years Experience Required:N/A#### Salary:Competitive### Get Job Alerts**Career Type:** Engineering**Country:** USAI agree to receive alerts from and to the .Your alert was created successfully.x## General Alert Saved* The listings below are jobs matching the criteria you've selected for your General Alert on.Criteria selected was:* General alert saved for .* General alert notifications will be sent weekly on Monday.* Please note that you can only have one general alert active at any given time. Creating a new general alert will override an existing general alert.* Visit the to manage your alerts# Director of Software Engineering| Number of Years Experience: | Minimum Education Completed: | || Education Major / Discipline Category: | Most Recent / Current Occupation: | |**Join Vylor - Powering the Future of Agriculture**Join us to help scale innovation globally and shape what's next in crop science.**Vylor** is a global leader in advanced seed and genetics. For more than a century, we\"ve advanced scientific discovery and breakthrough innovation to help farmers feed and fuel the world. Our business is backed by next-generation scientific expertise and multiple, distinct routes to market, like our industry-leading seed brands and our licensing business.The Vylor innovation engine will be anchored in the agriculture industry's most elite germplasm and transformative biotech. The company will leverage its next generation scientific expertise in disciplines like gene editing and molecular breeding to further strengthen its core business while exploring opportunities to expand to new row crops - and potentially beyond. Vylor will scale these innovations using its leading routes-to-market and by significantly expanding its licensing business.We are looking for an innovative, energetic, and transformational **Director of Software Engineering.**The **Director of Software Engineering** translates business strategy into multi-year technical and organizational direction for an engineering function, and owns what that function produces. Accountability covers portfolio results and return on people and platform investment, governance for engineering excellence and resilience, technology risk posture, budget and sourcing strategy, organization design, and the leadership bench - alongside the delivery health, quality, and people practices the function depends on. Typically 10 or more years of experience, including leading managers. The scorecard is portfolio value delivered and an operating model simpler than the one inherited.**Primary Responsibilities - How will you help us G**row!* Translate business strategy into multi-year technical and organizational direction.* Balance customer value, risk, architecture, data, and operations across portfolios.* Set functional expectations for engineering excellence, governance, resilience, and responsible technology.* Sustain consistent quality, security, and incident response mechanisms across teams.* Make explicit investment and risk trade-offs and sponsor durable improvements.* Own technology risk posture with security, architecture, and audit partners.* Unite functions around shared outcomes, operating agreements, and governance.* Clarify decision rights and remove organizational barriers across the function.* Build the leadership bench and workforce strategy for the function.* Coach managers, hire well, and shape organization design, mobility, and succession.* Simplify the portfolio and operating model with clear principles and decision rights.* Set a functional innovation agenda and manage a portfolio of bets.* Create paths from exploration to scale for the bets that prove out.* Own portfolio results and return on people, platform, and technology investment.* Sustain delivery health and predictability; correct course with evidence.* Reallocate resources, stop low-value work, and hold leaders accountable.* Own budget and sourcing strategy and represent the function to executives.* Anticipate change, reframe plans quickly, and lead functional transformation.* Sustain confidence through change without minimizing real risk.**Education and Experience - What you will bring to the table!*** Bachelor\"s degree in a computing field, or equivalent education and experience.* Experience leading a multi-team engineering organization, including leading managers.* Experience hiring, coaching, and developing managers and senior technical leaders.* Experience translating strategy into multi-year direction and delivering against it.* Experience owning portfolio results, delivery health, budget, and investment return.* Experience setting governance for engineering excellence, resilience, and security.* Experience shaping organization design, workforce strategy, and succession.* Ability to lead through influence and brief executives on strategy and risk.* Working knowledge of security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility practices.**Preferred Experience*** Ten or more years of experience, including leading managers of engineering teams.* Experience in agriculture, a global enterprise, or another regulated environment.* Experience leading modernization, platform strategy, cloud, or data and AI build-out.* Experience with portfolio governance, product operating models, and vendor management.**Benefits - How We'll Support You:*** Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills* Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place* Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment* Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays* Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father* Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program* Learn more about our total rewards package here -* Check out life at Vylor!### *Corteva announced to separate our current advanced seed and genetics business to establish a standalone company, operating as Vylor, Inc. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to legal requirements and board approval. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the separation, you would be an employee of Vylor, Inc. and your employment would be governed by Vylor, Inc. employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by Vylor, Inc. at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.*### Vylor is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing our differences to enrich lives, advance innovation, and boost company performance. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, military or veteran status, pregnancy related conditions (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), disability or any other protected status in accordance with federal, state, or local laws.]]>To apply please click on APPLY TO THIS POSITIONJob Post Date: 10/01/26Here are some other jobs you may be interested in applying for.| | || - | - || Vylor Des Moines, Iowa | Vylor Des Moines, Iowa || Vylor Des Moines, Iowa | |2 people are interested in this job.