Global Director of Software Engineering & Platform

Corteva Agriscience; Johnston (IA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development opportunities

Higher purpose

Health benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Vylor is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to translate business strategy into multi-year technical direction and lead an engineering function of 10+ managers. You’ll own portfolio results, governance, and the budget, while ensuring delivery health, security, and operational excellence across portfolios.

You will shape organization design, workforce strategy, and succession, coach managers, and build a leadership bench.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computing or equivalent.
• Experience leading a multi-team engineering organization including managers.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing senior technical leaders.
• Experience translating strategy into multi-year direction.
• 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.

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

Multi-team leadership

Engineering management

Strategy translation

Executive briefings

Education

Bachelor's degree in computing

Job description

Vylor is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to translate business strategy into multi-year technical direction and lead an engineering function of 10+ managers. You’ll own portfolio results, governance, and the budget, while ensuring delivery health, security, and operational excellence across portfolios.

You will shape organization design, workforce strategy, and succession, coach managers, and build a leadership bench.