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Director, Engineering
Coates Group
Chicago, USA
Full-time
Senior Level
Hybrid
USD 190000-210000 yearly
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- Engineering Enablement: Ensure squads have the technical capability, processes, and practices to deliver reliably, removing engineering blockers and supporting predictable outcomes in partnership with Delivery leadership.
- Engineering Leadership & Capability: Act as a chapter-style leader for engineers and technical leads, building capability, setting standards, and driving consistent engineering practices across squads.
- Technical Leadership, Debt & Design Quality: Ensure sound technical design and implementation, actively managing technical debt and addressing complexity.
- Quality in Delivery: Embed quality-by-design within engineering teams (e.g. testability, code quality, CI/CD discipline), while partnering with QA to achieve agreed quality outcomes.
- Platform Health & Operability: Own the operational health of systems within scope, ensuring reliability, performance, and readiness across production and pre-production environments.
- People & Partner Leadership: Lead and develop permanent and partner engineers (onshore and offshore), including performance management, engagement, and effective integration.
- Delivery Flow & Dependencies: Enable squads to operate autonomously by removing engineering blockers, managing dependencies, and improving delivery flow in partnership with Product and Delivery.
- Hands-on Technical Leadership: Leads with strong engineering credibility and modelling high-quality full-stack engineering practices.
- Execution Focus: Translates architectural direction and standards into practical, repeatable engineering practices that work at squad level.
- Problem Solving & Judgement: Quickly diagnoses technical and delivery-adjacent issues, makes sound trade-offs, and removes engineering blockers.
- People Development: Develops a high-performing team through clear expectations, feedback, and career coaching.
- Collaboration & Influence: Works as a trusted partner to Product, Delivery & QA leaders to align engineering effort to shared outcomes.
- Ownership & Accountability: Builds strong ownership within squads for code quality, operability, and continuous improvement.
- 8+ years’ experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in an engineering leadership roles, managing engineers and technical leads
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale software platforms or digital products within complex, client environments
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