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Overview:

A Director who will oversee the design, development, implementation and on-going support of software projects and platforms across multiple engineering teams. Must be able to provide high level leadership as well as in-depth technical guidance.

Role Objectives:

• Work with Engineering Managers on timelines, goals, and methodologies

• Work with Engineering Managers on execution of tactics (what teams/personnel are best suited for each job)

• Liaison between engineering teams and product, analytics and other teams

• Work with high level leadership within the company on engineering path and how engineering can be leveraged to make other aspects of the company more effective

• Work with vendors such as AWS/Rackspace/Google

• Ensure all engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance within the organization’s policies and objectives

• Manage engineering budget

• Work with Technical Architects to ensure architecture fits within the defined scope of the organization’s goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent demonstrated knowledge is required, as is experience in software development with a focus on Web applications

• Experience working with multiple engineering teams across multiple projects

• Experience working closely with the product side of an organization

• Solid understanding of best practices of OOP design and design patterns (MVC, Factory, Command pattern etc.)

• Excellent grasp of RDBMS database interfaces

• Knowledge and experience working on Linux-based systems

• Knowledge and experience working on a cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS or Rackspace

• Minimum of 9 years software engineering

• Minimum of 5 years managing software engineers

• Experience developing using a mainstream programming framework

• Experience with “Big Data” technologies – Hadoop, Analytic databases, NoSQL databases etc.

• Experience with Caching/Partitioning on MySQL/PostgreSQL

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.