Global Director of Software Engineering

Vylor Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits for you and family on

Paid time off

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement plan

Total rewards program

Job summary

Vylor, Inc. is seeking an innovative Director of Software Engineering to translate business strategy into multi-year technical direction for a high-performing engineering function.

You will own portfolio results, governance, budget, and responsible technology delivery, requiring 10+ years of experience including leading managers. In this role you will unite cross-functional teams around shared outcomes, set priorities, coach managers, and shape organization design and succession.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to lead through influence and brief executives on strategy and risk.
• Working knowledge of security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility practices.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Executive briefing

Portfolio governance

Security awareness

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computing

Job description

Vylor, Inc. is seeking an innovative Director of Software Engineering to translate business strategy into multi-year technical direction for a high-performing engineering function.

You will own portfolio results, governance, budget, and responsible technology delivery, requiring 10+ years of experience including leading managers. In this role you will unite cross-functional teams around shared outcomes, set priorities, coach managers, and shape organization design and succession.