Senior Director, Cloud & AI Engineering (Remote)

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Westford (MA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Director of Cloud Engineering to shape the technical strategy across Security, cloud platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.

You will lead distributed teams, establish standards, and ensure secure, scalable delivery for multiple product lines, including on-prem and cloud integrations. You will partner with product management and engineering leaders to align investments with roadmaps, drive architecture governance, and deliver resilient, cost-efficient

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience leading engineering managers, architects, and globally distributed technical teams.
• Proven accountability for delivery, quality, staffing, and engineering budgets for commercial software platforms or shared services.
• Experience leading technical strategy and coordinating delivery across multiple product lines or business units.
• Demonstrated experience architecting production SaaS platforms, including multi-tenancy, service integration, data management, and operational resilience.
• Deep expertise in a major public cloud platform, with ability to apply sound architecture principles across environments.
• Practical experience integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into production software, including deployment, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Strong understanding of APIs, event-driven systems, containers, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD.
• Experience designing secure systems, including identity, authorization, encryption, and customer data protection.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for cloud and shared engineering capabilities.
• Translate strategic priorities into executable plans with defined scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate releases, manage dependencies, and resolve execution risks with program management and engineering leaders.
• Establish measures of delivery, service reliability, and cost to serve.
• Drive improvements in development, testing, deployment, and release practices with automation and AI-assisted tools.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Enterprise architecture

AI integration

Strategic leadership

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Director of Cloud Engineering to shape the technical strategy across Security, cloud platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.

You will lead distributed teams, establish standards, and ensure secure, scalable delivery for multiple product lines, including on-prem and cloud integrations. You will partner with product management and engineering leaders to align investments with roadmaps, drive architecture governance, and deliver resilient, cost-efficient