Director, Software Engineering & Platform Architecture

Performance Review Institute (PRI)

Minnesota

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Performance Review Institute (PRI) leads engineering for internal and external facing applications, including EAN, Mobilus, StandardsWorks, Curator, and WMI. The role drives technology strategy, architecture, and large-scale team leadership across insourced and outsourced talent to deliver scalable, event-driven microservices and polished front-end experiences.

The position requires extensive leadership, budget oversight, and collaboration across product, UX, and operations to achieve measurable

Qualifications

10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 7+ years of hands-on development in modern technologies.
7+ years leading and developing high-performing software engineering teams, with demonstrated success managing managers and/or multi-disciplinary technical teams.
3+ years of experience designing and operating Microservices architectures in a production environment.
Broad technical leadership experience, with proven ability to evaluate, design, implement, and modernize software ecosystems, platforms, and engineering processes at scale.
Demonstrated experience driving engineering strategy, roadmap development, and architectural direction in alignment with business priorities and budget requirements.
Exceptional leadership and people-management skills, including coaching, developing talent, and cultivating collaborative, high-accountability engineering cultures.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern DevOps practices.
Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues, leveraging both analytical and creative problem-solving.
Ability to set clear goals, establish accountability, and drive execution within engineering teams.
Self-starter with a strong bias for action, ownership, and results.
Demonstrated focus on quality, operational excellence, and delivering measurable outcomes.
Ability to think strategically and challenge conventional approaches to drive innovation and long-term value.

Responsibilities

Help establish software engineering standards and guidelines for software engineering organization. Present issues and risks, and their business impact to management in a timely manner with proposed mitigation.
Assess, define, and execute team structure; constantly review and adjust team structure to maximize agility and efficiency. People leadership for engineering, quality, and other teams.
Develop, plan, monitor and execute the technology strategy for the team and providing overall technical direction to the technology and other cross-functional partners that ensure innovation in all we do. Drive quality through automated testing, release governance and high platform performance
Collaboration across multiple business units and functional departments to develop and deploy solutions that address key business initiatives, supporting new revenue opportunities
Monitor and manage budget for software engineering teams.