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Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.\nRole Type: Full-time position\nAbout the Team\nTeam Observatory is a high-performing, self-organizing group of technologists focused on building and operating mission-critical score reporting systems and insights platforms that serve College Board’s Student community for CRA/AP Programs and the Bluebook platform. The work demands operational excellence, accuracy, and resilience at scale, while also requiring the team to continuously adapt to evolving business needs, technologies, and platforms. As College Board advances its 2027 strategy, this team is at the center of a multi-year transformation toward a consolidated, authentic Bluebook platform. The team balances the delivery of today’s critical capabilities with the exploration and adoption of new technologies, modern architectures, and AI-enabled solutions that will shape the future of score reporting.\nAbout the Opportunity\nAs an Engineering Director, you will lead a high-impact team responsible for delivering and operating systems that are foundational to College Board’s mission. This is an opportunity to lead in a dynamic, evolving environment where reliability, scale, and innovation must coexist.\nYou will guide your team through a changing technology and business landscape-balancing the demands of mission-critical score reporting with the opportunity to modernize platforms, adopt emerging technologies, and contribute to College Board’s long-term Bluebook strategy. You will be expected to deliver results today while helping position the organization for what comes next.\nIn this role, you are a catalyst and force multiplier: setting direction, removing obstacles, and enabling engineers to do their best work. You will bring clarity to ambiguity, translate strategy into execution, and build strong partnerships across product, architecture, data, and business teams. Your leadership will directly influence how College Board evolves its student score reporting capabilities into a scalable, secure, and unified platform. This role offers meaningful growth-for you and for the team. As College Board continues its journey toward a consolidated Bluebook platform, team scope, responsibilities, and technical challenges will evolve. You will play a key role in shaping that evolution while fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead and Manage the team (40%)\nLead a team of approximately eight engineers, responsible for building and operating student score reporting systems.\nSet a clear vision and priorities for the team, track progress against goals, and provide coaching and feedback to support high performance and growth.\nFoster an inclusive, high-achieving culture where team members are engaged, supported, and able to do their best work.\nBuild effective team structures and plan for evolving skill and capacity needs as product scope and platform strategy grow.\nDevelop and leverage the strengths of individual team members to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions using cloud and AI-enabled technologies.\nSupport diversity and inclusion across perspectives, skills, and experiences.\nConsistently model College Board’s Operating Principles and Manager Expectations in daily leadership practices.\nStrategic Partnership & Technical Communication (30%)\nPartner with business and technology stakeholders to clarify score reporting needs, constraints, and opportunities across student audiences.\nBuild trusted relationships with product, data, and engineering leaders to align priorities across complex, interdependent systems.\nCommunicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, enabling informed decision-making and shared understanding.\nAct as a technology partner in advancing AI-enabled capabilities that enhance score reporting, insights, and operational efficiency.\nDrive engineering excellence through design reviews, shared standards, and constructive technical debate.\nBalance scope, impact, and effort to deliver meaningful value while recognizing diminishing returns.\nCollaborate closely with Solutions Architects, Senior and Lead Engineers, and Data Leads to evaluate features, estimate effort, and plan delivery. \nDiscovery, Definition & Delivery (30%)\nDevelop a deep understanding of the business problems your team supports and translate them into clear technical direction.\nLead Agile (and post-Agile) delivery practices, ensuring clarity of priorities, disciplined execution, and sustained delivery momentum.\nGuide technical decision-making by evaluating solution options, balancing tradeoffs, and acting as an arbiter when needed.\nPartner with technology leaders to align architecture, cloud services, and delivery patterns with organizational goals.\nTranslate product and platform roadmaps into actionable plans, sequencing and prioritizing epics and stories with stakeholders.\nManage scope intentionally while identifying and reducing technical debt over time.\nMonitor application cost and performance, partnering with internal teams to optimize efficiency and scalability.\nEmbed security and compliance considerations into all phases of design and delivery.\nEnsure clean delivery and operational readiness, maintaining reliable services throughout their lifecycle.\nLead the identification, triage, and resolution of production issues to maintain system stability and reliability.\nContinue to learn and keep abreast of developments in Generative AI software, sharing that knowledge within the team to support best practices\nAbout You\n10+ years of experience in software engineering, including building and operating secure, data-intensive, cloud-based systems.\nDemonstrated success leading engineering teams to deliver complex products, services, or platform capabilities at scale.\nHands-on experience managing or owning web applications, ideally a user-facing portal, with a working knowledge of the security and infrastructure considerations that come with them, such as authentication, access controls, web application firewalls, and hosting environments.\nStrong people-management experience, including coaching, performance management, and career development.\nProven ability to plan, prioritize, and execute in fast-paced, evolving environments.\nSolid technical judgment with experience reviewing designs, guiding architectural decisions, and partnering with senior engineers.\nExperience with modern cloud architectures; familiarity with AI integrations is a plus.\nAbility to influence engineering strategy and decision-making across teams and leadership levels.\nCalm, thoughtful leadership under pressure, with a focus on outcomes and continuous improvement.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate between business and technical contexts.\nAll roles at College Board require:\nA passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work\nCuriosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort with learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively. \nClear and concise communication skills, written and verbal\nA learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.\nA drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.\nA collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success\nAuthorization to work in the United States\nAbout Our Process\nApplication review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.\nWhile the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, a performance exercise, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership, and reference checks.\nWhat We Offer\nAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck - we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.\nA Thoughtful Approach to Compensation\nThe hiring range for this role is $140,000 - $175,000.\nYour exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board.\nWe aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.\nWe adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.\nYou'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. 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