Director Software Engineering
Role Overview
As an Engineering Director supporting SciVal, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for delivering a scalable, secure, and data-intensive analytics platform.
You will partner closely with Product, Data, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, UX and commercial stakeholders to shape technical strategy, modernise platform capabilities, and enable AI-assisted and agent-ready experiences for customers.
You will play a key leadership role in driving engineering excellence, developing technical talent, and ensuring the successful delivery of technology roadmaps that support research analytics and discovery solutions.
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About The Role
As an Engineering Director supporting SciVal, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for delivering a scalable, secure, and data-intensive analytics platform.
You will partner closely with Product, Data, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, UX and commercial stakeholders to shape technical strategy, modernise platform capabilities, and enable AI-assisted and agent-ready experiences for customers.
You will play a key leadership role in driving engineering excellence, developing technical talent, and ensuring the successful delivery of technology roadmaps that support research analytics and discovery solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead SciVal's engineering strategy and technical direction in partnership with Product, Data and Architecture.
- Define and uphold architectural standards across search, data, analytics, APIs and platform integration, aligned with Elsevier governance.
- Balance engineering excellence, innovation, cost efficiency and pragmatic delivery across the platform.
- Lead distributed engineering teams across frontend, backend, data and quality engineering.
- Hire, coach and develop high-performing engineers, engineering managers and technical leaders.
- Own workforce planning, succession planning, performance management and resource allocation.
- Drive planning, prioritisation and execution across multiple engineering teams and programmes.
- Maintain strong engineering standards for code quality, testing, release management, observability, security and operational resilience.
- Establish clear operating models for technical debt, production incidents, operational risk and partner delivery.
- Lead platform modernisation, consolidation and adoption of shared technology foundations to improve scalability, reliability and cloud-cost efficiency.
- Partner with Product, UX, Data and customers to improve Research Analytics workflows and enable AI-assisted, agent-ready experiences.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, dependencies, risks and delivery progress clearly to senior stakeholders and roadmap forums.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering, including significant experience leading engineering managers, engineering leads and distributed teams across multiple geographies and time zones.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale, data-intensive software products in production.
- Demonstrated success setting technical strategy and delivering technology roadmaps.
- Demonstrated experience introducing AI-assisted development practices across engineering teams.
- Excellent communication, planning, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience with large-scale data ingestion, transformation, indexing and query optimisation.
- Understanding of search, discovery and graph-based data relationships, particularly within research and scholarly domains.
- Familiarity with analytics-driven systems, knowledge graphs or metadata-rich datasets.
- Experience delivering AI-enabled product capabilities such as summarization, guided workflows, intelligent search or decision support.
- Understanding of making data platforms accessible to AI agents through APIs, metadata, data contracts or MCP-compatible interfaces.
- Experience with AI adoption in SDLC streams.
About The Team
SciVal is Elsevier's research-analytics platform.
It helps universities, research institutions and funding organizations evaluate research performance, benchmark against peers, understand collaboration networks, identify emerging research areas, and support evidence-based strategic decisions.
SciVal is built on trusted, connected research data, including Scopus.
Benefits
- We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation.
- We offer an appealing working prospect with numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals.
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
Compensation
- If performed in NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg), the base pay range is €110,500 - €184,000.
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