Assistant Director, IT Engineering

Position Summary

The Assistant Director of IT Engineering is responsible for leading and managing the AI Engineering team and the Platform Engineering team.

They will research, develop, and implement strategies across both teams as well as provide oversight

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the Platform Engineering and AI Engineering teams in developing tools, processes and standards.
• Standardize and oversee application and platform design across IT, including architecture, process, testing, and release strategies
• Spearhead technical transformation initiatives to embed AI into engineering and business workflows
• Identify opportunities to improve development and engineering quality through adoption of new platform technologies.
• Increase IT agility and improve engineering practices
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure that software applications are integrated effectively
• Understand and anticipate the strategic direction of the global IT organization

Key Performance Indicators

• Continuous implementation and standardization of effective modern engineering strategies and architectures
• Increase the efficiency of technology teams and reduce manual overhead in maintenance and operations via automation and process improvements
• Coach and mentor teams and individuals on technology adoption, best practices, and skillset building
• Continually learn, grow, and assess industry leading technologies and practices for use within IT

Skills / Competencies:

• Expertise in architecture and management of decoupled microservice development, delivery, and API ecosystems following domain-driven design
• Expertise in Agile development and developing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems and practices for application development, 12-Factor Application Development
• Expertise in architecting with Everything-as-Code/GitOps practices and “eventual consistency” canary and blue/green development and release engineering patterns
• Strong knowledge in infrastructure components such including operating systems, systems networking, private cloud development and operations, and security operations