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The role combines technical leadership, organizational development, product engineering, and innovation to accelerate Fortrea's digital transformation.\nThe Director will drive adoption of AI-assisted software engineering, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, automation, platform engineering, and modern mobile development practices to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and speed of delivery.\nWorking closely with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data & AI, and Business stakeholders, this leader will translate strategic business objectives into technical execution while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.\nHybrid Role Warsaw.\nSummary of Responsibilities:\nSupport and execute the mobile engineering strategy aligned with established Fortrea product and business objectives.\nBuild, lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering managers, architects, technical leads, and software engineers while creating strong succession plans and career development opportunities.\nLead the design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise mobile applications across iOS, Android, and modern cross-platform technologies.\nManage mobile architecture standards, reusable platforms, shared SDKs, engineering frameworks, and governance based on already established enterprise standards that enable rapid product delivery across multiple applications.\nDrive adoption of AI-assisted software engineering tools and intelligent development practices to improve developer productivity, software quality, automated testing, documentation, code generation, and release velocity.\nPartner with Product Management to build customer-centric digital products that continuously evolve through customer feedback, analytics, experimentation, and data-driven decision making.\nEvaluate and implement Generative AI capabilities within mobile applications to improve customer, employee, and patient experiences.\nChampion engineering excellence through Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated quality engineering, and modern software delivery practices.\nImprove developer experience through automation, self-service engineering platforms, modern development environments, developer tooling, and engineering productivity initiatives.\nEnsure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, performant, observable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity standards.\nPartner with Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Risk organizations to ensure mobile applications meet regulatory, HIPAA, privacy, security, and secure software development lifecycle requirements.\nCollaborate with executive leadership to define technology strategy, investment priorities, engineering roadmaps, and long-term platform evolution.\nDrive operational excellence through observability, telemetry, monitoring, crash analytics, feature flags, experimentation, and performance optimization.\nManage engineering metrics including DORA metrics, application health, engineering productivity, operational reliability, software quality, customer adoption, and business outcomes.\nLead technical risk management, production support, incident response, disaster recovery, and continuous service improvement activities.\nEvaluate emerging mobile technologies, AI platforms, engineering tools, frameworks, and industry trends that improve innovation and accelerate software delivery.\nManage engineering budgets, vendor relationships, resource planning, strategic investments, and technology partnerships.\nFoster a high-performance engineering culture centered on ownership, collaboration, innovation, technical excellence, continuous learning, diversity, inclusion, accountability, and customer focus.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nQualifications (Minimum Required):\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline. 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