Senior Director, Software Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026. Clarivate scores B on the Alion truth index.
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. This includes cross-functional coordination with Content, Product Tech, DevOps, and AI teams. Oversee the designs and may develop prototype/actual code. Maintain responsibility for reviewing requirements, and the design, implementation, and unit testing for their teams. Attend project planning sessions with Product Owners, Content Owners and Business Analysts to analyze requirements. Maintain responsibility for communicating 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: Bachelors 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.
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