Director of Engineering

Minneapolis - 100% Remote

Our client is a global leader providing analytics to our customers to feed, fuel, and protect the world. We help people make critical business decisions that impact the agriculture, oil and gas, trading, and weather industries.

Job Description:

We seek a passionate and versatile director interested in building innovative and evolving products with the clients product teams. We’re growing and looking for strong individuals interested in working on multi-disciplined teams in a collaborative and open environment. You’ll have opportunities to play key roles in product planning, design, prototyping, and execution.

• Lead multiple teams using current tools and following current agile practices, guides, coaches, motivates and leads team to understand and deliver on business and career objectives
• Translate strategy to establish team objectives
• Lead technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and work through technical issues
• Provide proactive and clear communication to cross-functional leaders including developing mitigation plans and recommendations
• Drive a culture of high performance and ensures performance concerns are identified and addressed in a timely manner
• Actively contribute to managing and delivering on the current budget

Position Requirements:

• 8 years engineering management experience.
• 10 years of experience with software development.
• 5 years of strong practical experience with both Agile and Scrum.
• Experience in handling multiple requirements from customers, product management, support and other key stakeholders and help negotiate the best possible solution to maximize product value with limited technical resources.
• Experience in leading and providing mentoring, coaching and guidance to engineering managers.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple teams and departments – identifying any hurdles to progress and improving internal and cross-functional communications and processes.
• Able to motivate, inspire and drive engineering teams to drive a culture of excellence and pride of ownership.
• Experience in working with Product Management to map product roadmaps to engineering schedules.
• Experience with summarizing and presenting key information, and proven ability to influence and drive decisions at the executive level.
• Proven ability to drive the engineering teams to be accountable for on-time delivery of quality features and products.
• Experience leading, managing and delivering with Agile processes.
• Proven track record of successful rollouts for large enterprise software product suites.
• Strong customer service mindset and great attention to detail.
• Broad understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices
• A thorough understanding of software development processes and workflows
• Strong practical experience with both Agile and SCRUM
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly, and master diverse web technologies and techniques
• Able to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences and levels
• Able to facilitate resolution of technical conflicts and help the team with trade-offs
• Strong understanding of the direction of technological innovation and ability to bring that expertise to the company

Preferred Requirements:

• Hands on technical experience
• Solid understanding of deploying web solutions to AWS
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience with multiple cloud computing platforms like AWS, GCE, and Azure
• Experience with GIS/Spatial data

Reasons to Apply:

Our client offers their employees a competitive salary and attractive benefits here are just a couple.

• Generous health benefits along with other company sponsored benefits.
• Our client also offers a generous paid time off policy along with Paid Holidays.
• What's more, they are committed to developing our employees to meet their full potential through on-the-job training.