Director, Software Engineering

Position Description: 

Develops innovative technology solutions and complex, multi-faceted software applications to resolve complex business problems. Manages the technical implementation of cross company architectural components using Microsoft .Net or other object oriented development platforms. Researches and recommends appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. Manages development teams and their focus on the design and development of applications and automation systems. Oversees the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution, and planning. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies. Develops recommendations of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy. 

• Makes recommendations at the functional level. 

• Participates in high-level, cross- functional architecture design teams. 

• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs. 

• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit. 

• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables. 

• Consults on the documentation of major technology application. 

• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues. 

• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization. 

• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives. 

• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects. 

• Advises senior management on technical strategy. 

• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives. 

• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development. 

• Identifies and plans for future resource needs. 

• Documents functional and technical requirements through the creation of documents. 

• Provides support to applications after release. 

• Analyzes error logs to locate origin of bugs/problems and resolve them without impacting other modules. 

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of internet and client/server applications. 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of internet and client/server applications. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of internet and client/server applications, using VB.NET/C#, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, jQuery, Vue.js, and SQL Server databases; and gathering business requirements, and analyzing and creating algorithms and flowcharts to depict the overall flow of business processes using Microsoft Visio. 

• DE developing complex software programs using Visual Studio; developing User Interface (UIs) using HTML, JavaScript languages (jQuery, Angular, and VueJs), and cascading style sheets; developing RESTful (using Web API) and Web services (using ASMX) in ASP.NET to implement business logic and interact with databases (SQL/Oracle); connecting  RESTful and Web services to databases -- SQL and Oracle -- using ADO.Net, Dapper, and Entity framework; developing robot processes to automate and schedule recurring processes on Windows servers using .Net console applications; and developing unit and integrated test cases using XUnit framework. 

• DE performing audit logging to provide documentary evidence of activity sequences during action performed in Web and Console applications to Splunk Cloud; reviewing and developing code performance, using load performance tools -- Application Timeline and Diagnostic Tools within Visual Studio; merging and performing code review to ensure uniformity in coding standards throughout projects, using code version control tools --Team Foundation server and Git. 

• DE creating and maintaining application release management, using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes, Azure DevOps, and JenkinsCore; analyzing and resolving end user bugs by debugging code using Visual Studio; and providing technical guidance/mentoring to developers and helping teams to migrate .Net based applications to Azure App Services. 

Salary: $150,668.00 - $157,000.00 /year. 

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