Senior Director, Software Engineering

Clarivate Analytics; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ProQuest LLC d/b/a Clarivate Analytics (US) LLC in Philadelphia, PA seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple software teams, steering technical strategy and delivery across a development-wide program. You will align with Content, Product Tech, DevOps, and AI teams, review designs, and drive disciplined processes to meet business objectives.

The role requires deep backend expertise (Java, SQL), leadership experience, and strong communication to present status to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in MIS/CS/Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years as a software engineer developing commercial software.
• 8+ years with Java and backend design.
• 8+ years working with MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• 7 years leading software engineering teams; test plans and unit testing, SQL queries, performance tuning.
• 5 years of experience in Agile development (Scrum), SaaS, and AWS.
• 5 years interfacing with product and business leaders to gather requirements and roadmap.
• Experience with Lucidchart, Figma, Jira; ExtJS/Angular; REST/Microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead development teams and coordinate across a broad program.
• Collaborate with Content, Product Tech, DevOps and AI teams.
• Oversee designs and develop prototypes or code as needed.
• Review requirements, design, implementation and unit tests for teams.
• Attend planning sessions with Product Owners and Analysts to analyze requirements.
• Communicate status to stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Ensure disciplined processes and industry-standard practices across modules.
• Build and manage multiple software engineering teams, including hiring and performance management.

Skills

Java

SQL

Microservices

REST APIs

AWS

Agile Scrum

Leadership

Communication

NLP/ML

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in MIS/CS/Engineering

Tools

Lucidchart

Figma

Jira

ExtJS

Angular

Job description

Senior Director, Software Engineering

ProQuest LLC d/b/a Clarivate Analytics (US) LLC, Philadelphia, PA

Duties

• Lead technical teams and focal point for development issues across a development-wide program.
• Cross-functional coordination with Content, Product Tech, DevOps, and AI teams.
• Oversee designs and may develop prototype/actual code.
• Maintain responsibility for reviewing requirements, design, implementation, and unit testing for their teams.
• Attend project planning sessions with Product Owners, Content Owners and Business Analysts to analyze requirements.
• Communicate accurately the status of ongoing work to stakeholders and present status updates to project management and senior leaders.
• Ensure teams develop modules using disciplined processes, adhering to industry standards and best practice guidelines.
• Lead and manage teams including hiring and supporting career development of teams' members (objective setting, performance management, talent management, etc.).
• Responsible for building and managing an organization of multiple software engineering teams, including hiring and managing performance of Software Engineers and Engineering Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Information Systems Technologies, Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related discipline, plus at least 10 years of related experience.
• Must have 10 years of experience working as a software engineer developing commercial software.
• Must have 8 years of experience with common programming languages including Java and designing back-end applications.
• Must have 8 years of experience working with any one of the RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Must have 7 years of experience in leading/managing software engineering teams and defining test plans and performing unit testing, SQL database development including designing queries, triggers, and stored procedures, performance tuning, or data ETL.
• Must have experience with JavaScript, XML, and unit testing frameworks including Junit.
• Must have 5 years of experience working in Agile Development (Scrum), SaaS delivery model and AWS Environment.
• Must have 5 years of experience in interfacing business product leaders and engineers to gather requirements and translate requirements into system design and coordinating with product and business teams in planning and estimating product roadmaps, business cases, and other problem resolutions.
• Must have experience with Lucid Charts, Figma, Jira or equivalents.
• Must have experience with current JavaScript frameworks, particularly ExtJS, Angular, Dojo or similar.
• Must have experience building Microservices, SOAP, REST Services (Java/NodeJS).
• Must have knowledge and understanding of ML, NLP, including entity extraction, data mining, sentiment analysis, content summarization and time series forecasting and association rule mining.
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Telecommuting is allowed within standard commuting distance from Philadelphia, PA Clarivate office (2-3 days a week in the office).

Travel responsibility: Must be willing and available to travel domestically and internationally at least 15-20 days a year.

At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.

Clarivate is a global leader in trusted and transformative intelligence. We bring together enriched data, insights, analytics and workflow solutions, grounded in deep domain expertise across the spectrum of knowledge, research and innovation. Whether it's providing insights to transform the water industry or accelerating the delivery of a critical vaccine, our aim is to fuel the world's greatest breakthroughs by harnessing the power of human ingenuity.

For more information, please visit clarivate.com