Engineering Director

collegeboard; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

College Board is seeking an Engineering Director for a remote or hybrid role focused on leading a high-performing team that builds and operates mission-critical score reporting systems and insights platforms. You will drive reliability, scale, and security while modernizing Bluebook components.

You will partner with product, data, and architecture teams to shape strategy, promote AI-enabled capabilities, and ensure cohesive delivery across the platform.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineers to deliver mission-critical systems.
• Ability to translate strategy into execution and clear direction.
• Proven collaboration with product, data, and architecture teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of approximately eight engineers building and operating student score reporting systems.
• Set a clear vision, track progress, and coach for high performance and growth.
• Partner with product, data, and engineering leaders to align priorities and drive delivery.
• Foster engineering excellence through design reviews and shared standards.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud technologies

AI-enabled capabilities

Technical communication

Job description

Engineering Director

College Board - Technology

Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Role Type : Full-time position

About the Team

Team Observatory is a high-performing, self-organizing group of technologists focused on building and operating mission-critical score reporting systems and insights platforms that serve College Board's Student community for CRA/AP Programs and the Bluebook platform. The work demands operational excellence, accuracy, and resilience at scale, while also requiring the team to continuously adapt to evolving business needs, technologies, and platforms. As College Board advances its 2027 strategy, this team is at the center of a multi-year transformation toward a consolidated, authentic Bluebook platform. The team balances the delivery of today's critical capabilities with the exploration and adoption of new technologies, modern architectures, and AI-enabled solutions that will shape the future of score reporting.

About the Opportunity

As an Engineering Director, you will lead a high-impact team responsible for delivering and operating systems that are foundational to College Board's mission. This is an opportunity to lead in a dynamic, evolving environment where reliability, scale, and innovation must coexist. You will guide your team through a changing technology and business landscape-balancing the demands of mission-critical score reporting with the opportunity to modernize platforms, adopt emerging technologies, and contribute to College Board's long-term Bluebook strategy. You will be expected to deliver results today while helping position the organization for what comes next.In this role, you are a catalyst and force multiplier: setting direction, removing obstacles, and enabling engineers to do their best work. You will bring clarity to ambiguity, translate strategy into execution, and build strong partnerships across product, architecture, data, and business teams. Your leadership will directly influence how College Board evolves its student score reporting capabilities into a scalable, secure, and unified platform. This role offers meaningful growth-for you and for the team. As College Board continues its journey toward a consolidated Bluebook platform, team scope, responsibilities, and technical challenges will evolve. You will play a key role in shaping that evolution while fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

In this role, you will:

Lead and Manage the team (40%)

• Lead a team of approximately eight engineers, responsible for building and operating student score reporting systems.
• Set a clear vision and priorities for the team, track progress against goals, and provide coaching and feedback to support high performance and growth.
• Foster an inclusive, high-achieving culture where team members are engaged, supported, and able to do their best work.
• Build effective team structures and plan for evolving skill and capacity needs as product scope and platform strategy grow.
• Develop and leverage the strengths of individual team members to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions using cloud and AI-enabled technologies.
• Support diversity and inclusion across perspectives, skills, and experiences.
• Consistently model College Board's Operating Principles and Manager Expectations in daily leadership practices.

Strategic Partnership & Technical Communication (30%)

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to clarify score reporting needs, constraints, and opportunities across student audiences.
• Build trusted relationships with product, data, and engineering leaders to align priorities across complex, interdependent systems.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, enabling informed decision-making and shared understanding.
• Act as a technology partner in advancing AI-enabled capabilities that enhance score reporting, insights, and operational efficiency.
• Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, shared standards, and constructive technical debate.
• Balance scope, impact, and effort to deliver meaningful value while recognizing diminishing returns.
• Collaborate closely with Solutions Architects, Senior and Lead Engineers, and Data Leads to evaluate features, estimate effort, and plan delivery.

Discovery, Definition & Delivery (30%)

• Develop a deep understanding of the business problems your team supports and translate them into clear technical direction.
• Lead Agile (and post-Agile) delivery practices, ensuring clarity of priorities, disciplined execution, and sustained delivery momentum.
• Guide technical decision-making by evaluating solution options, balancing tradeoffs, and acting as an arbiter when needed.
• Partner with technology leaders to align architecture, cloud services, and delivery pattern