Director of Software Engineering

Jobright.ai; Southfield (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

A security and investigations company in Southfield, MI seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead their software engineering team. This role includes overseeing the software development lifecycle and ensuring high-quality delivery of projects. Ideal candidates have a proven track record managing engineers and strong knowledge of cloud-based development methodologies.

Qualifications

• Strong people management skills with a proven track record.
• 3+ years of direct management experience with on-site engineers.
• 5+ years in developing scalable web applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers.
• Drive software strategy for the organization.
• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of new software systems.

Skills

People management skills

Cloud-based development methodologies

Software development lifecycle methodologies

Technical knowledge

Coaching and mentoring

Service delivery mentality

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Dynamics

Strongly-typed languages (Java, C/C++, C#)

Job description

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Job Summary:

Guardian Alarm is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead their software engineering team and oversee the full software development lifecycle for all applications and products. The role involves managing project goals, driving software strategy, and ensuring high-quality delivery while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration within the team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers, ensuring project goals are met, products are delivered efficiently while meeting high-quality standards, and overall alignment with Guardian’s long-term goals.

• Drives the software strategy for the entire organization.

• Consults with management regarding project specifics and determine requirements, boundaries and priorities.

• Provide effective employee performance management utilizing SMART goals, constructive feedback and coaching for improvement.

• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of all new software systems and/or enhancements to current software systems.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product vendors, and solution architects to translate business requests into work items for the development teams to implement;

• Develop and implement best practices for software development, ensuring scalability and reliability.

• Effectively manage vendors to maximize value.

• Maintain an excellent understanding of the business long term goals and strategy to ensure that designs are aligned.

• Manage resource allocation, budgeting, and long-term planning for the software team.

• Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency;

• Assume a leadership role in ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of products through the entire application life cycle;

• Foster and maintain a culture of design excellence, innovation, quality, collaboration, planning, continuous improvement and responsiveness in the software engineering team.

• Work closely with Executive leadership to design and architect major customer features.

• Act as a strategist and champion for enterprise architecture and design principles.

• Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality and time to market imperatives.

• Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance.

• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in cloud-hosted Azure and/or AWS environments.

• Drive the data engineering effort ensuring the availability and quality of data to the business

• Review new and existing systems design projects and procurement or outsourcing plans for compliance with standards and architectural plans.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Strong people management skills, proven success in recruiting, creating and motivating a strong performing engineering team

• Understanding of cloud based development methodologies and state of the art design patterns

• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test-driven development

• A positive attitude with a service delivery mentality

• Ability to work independently and supervise a diverse staff

• Ability to demonstrate initiative and strong technical knowledge

• Ability to coach/mentor IT staff members to function as a highly effective team

• Enthusiasm for investigating and implementing new software tools/applications (off the shelf and internally developed)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field required

• 3+ years of direct management experience of at least 5 on-site engineers

• At least 5 years’ experience in developing scalable web applications and architectural standards

• Proficient in at least one strongly-typed language (Java, C/C++, C#, etc)

• Experience with Agile software development

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics environment

• Experience with Azure and the available data related products such as data factory, pipelines, OneLake and Fabric

• 4+ years of engineering leadership experience – managing multiple teams and/or locations

Company:

Guardian Alarm is a security and investigations company offering security systems and access control systems. Founded in 1930, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, USA, team size 501-1000 employees, currently Late Stage.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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