Engineering Director

This is a leadership role Responsible for delivering a strategic vision at-scale to enable our customers to drive their business forward through moments that matter. Responsible for leading and managing a Platform Services Engineering organization. Promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment by embedding DEI principles into hiring, development, and retention strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Architecture, Design, build out, customer adoption and operating the Platform.
• Have a deep understanding of our business domain, Internal Platforms, our data & analytics capabilities, and our technology capabilities to deliver value via a platform as a service approach.
• Lead enablement via the platform built with modern engineering with seamless integration, full automation, and exceptional self-service implementation.
• Partner with Global stakeholders to deliver innovative impactful solutions.
• Monitor the team's performance and metrics, identifying areas for improvement and implementing process changes to improve efficiency
• Accountable for resource planning/budget adherence for the respective team(s) and defines guidelines, processes, and procedures to ensure organizational efficiency and effectiveness
• Develops and manages strategic budgets, aligning financial planning with long-term strategic goals and optimizing resource allocation
• Defines AI-enabled engineering practices for an entire domain, standardizing tooling, prompts, automation patterns, and measurable productivity outcomes.
• Defines domain-wide DevSecOps strategy, Cybersec strategy, aligns teams on tooling and guardrails, and ensures secure, efficient delivery across a portfolio of products or services
• Identifies and nurtures talent and future leaders, identifies development needs/potential within their organization and pro-actively addresses skill gaps through targeted and structured development measures and programs, including mentoring of lower-level leaders
• Influences the opinions and decision-making of peers and internal stakeholders to achieve departmental objectives; builds consensus and drives adoption of recommendations

Qualifications:

• 15+ years minimum experience in Software Engineering
• Held accountability to deliver major transformation initiatives, product with global rollout in the last 3 years
• Firm understanding of the global macro-technology trends, the evolution and applicability of these trends as they apply to the business domain in NIQ
• Extensive hands-on experience in Java, J2EE Stack, API first approach
• Expert in architectural guardrails for data privacy, model usage, multi-cloud interoperability, and cost efficiency
• Defined end to end reference architectures for Gen AI solutions
• Experience AI productization: APIs, SDKs, batch/stream inference, caching, throttling, and resiliency patterns
• Integrated foundation models (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI, open source LLMs, equivalent) based on task fit, safety, latency, and cost
• Deep product development expertise and understanding of enterprise technologies, platforms, APIs, microservices, rdbms, nosql
• Strong experience developing, managing Platform teams focused on Developer Life Cycle and Infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of SDLC and DevSecOps technologies as they apply to Application development and lifecycle
• Deep experience in leading globally distributed teams and influencing globally distributed stakeholders.
• Exceptional leadership skills and an ability to develop and motivate a large team of engineers.
• Strong leadership and team-building skills, including the ability to lead architecture discussions with global teams operating in an Agile delivery model.
• Exceptional communication skills with global & diverse audiences - Strong critical thinking and analytical skills