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The role bridges business strategy and technical execution, ensuring engineering outcomes deliver customer value, operational excellence, and long term platform scalability.\nThis leader sets technical direction, develops engineering talent, and partners closely with Product, Platform Engineering, Security, Data, and Business leaders to drive innovation and reliable delivery across portfolios.\n1. Engineering & Technical Leadership\nDefine and drive the software engineering strategy and technical roadmap aligned with the Product Roadmap, business priorities and product vision.\nEnsure adoption of engineering best practices across architecture, development, testing, CI/CD, security, and reliability.\nGuide platform scalability, performance, and resilience across cloud and SaaS environments.\nEvaluate and introduce new technologies where they create measurable business value (e.g., AI/ML, data platforms, automation).\n2. Delivery & Execution\nOwn end-to-end delivery accountability for software initiatives, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and speed to market.\nPartner with Product Management to translate business and customer needs into executable engineering plans.\nUse AI to assist with product development and deployment of AI capabilities in our customer-facing solutions.\nEstablish and monitor KPIs and engineering metrics related to delivery, quality, reliability, and team health.\nEnsure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards across software products. \n3. People & Organizational Leadership\nBuild, lead, and develop high-performing engineering managers and teams.\nSet clear accountabilities, performance objectives, and growth paths for leaders and individual contributors.\nFoster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement.\nSupport workforce planning, succession, and capability development aligned to future needs. \n4. Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Partnership\nCollaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, Data, Operations, and Business leaders (GMs) to align priorities and execution.\nCommunicate complex technical topics clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders.\nRepresent Software Engineering in strategic planning, investment decisions, and governance forums\nSuccess Measures\nDelivery predictability and product quality\nPlatform scalability and reliability\nEngineering talent retention and growth\nAlignment between engineering output and business outcomes\n Required Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred).\n\nExtensive experience in software engineering, with multiple years in senior engineering leadership roles.\n\nProven success leading large-scale software platforms or SaaS products.\n\nStrong understanding of modern software architectures, cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and secure development.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead through change and scale organizations.\n\nPreferred Experience\nExperience leading AI-enabled, data-driven, or platform-centric software products.\n\nGlobal or matrixed organizational leadership.\n\nBudget ownership and investment prioritization.\n\nBackground in regulated or enterprise environments.\n\nSuccess Measures\nDelivery predictability and product quality\nPlatform scalability and reliability\nEngineering talent retention and growth\nAlignment between engineering output and business outcomes\nTotal Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. 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