Dir. Software Development

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams, providing technical and organizational leadership for platform- or experience-focused teams.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leads, and engineers.
• Deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable software; improve Agile practices, quality, reliability, and operational maturity.
• Remove impediments and support product and technical roadmap execution.
• Promote automated testing, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and production readiness.
• Establish metrics for delivery, quality, reliability, and team effectiveness.
• Foster ownership, collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and technical excellence.

Required qualifications

• Requires 15+ years building and delivering software, including at least 5 years as a senior technology leader.
• Requires deep expertise in Java, web applications, cloud technologies, and AI-native applications.
• Requires software engineering leadership experience, including multiple Agile teams or engineering managers.
• Requires a strong background in enterprise SaaS, distributed systems, platform engineering, UX frameworks, or large-scale web applications.
• Requires technical direction-setting, complex engineering collaboration, Agile practices, high-quality software delivery, and engineering effectiveness experience.
• Requires people leadership in hiring, coaching, career development, performance management, and team building.
• Requires strong communication and collaboration skills.
• For Quebec roles, French and English are required.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in identity and access, job processing, AI enablement, workflows, or shared platform services is preferred.
• Experience in UI frameworks, self-service tools, reporting, design systems, or shared front-end platforms is preferred.
• Cloud-native architectures, microservices, observability, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software delivery experience are preferred.
• Experience leading geographically distributed or hybrid teams is preferred.

Work style

• The posting specifies a hybrid work style and travel up to 25%.

Compensation

• Base salary range is CAD $157,100–$212,100 per year; employees may also be eligible for a performance bonus and restricted stock units.