Senior Director of Engineering – Health & Benefits Technology
WEX
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Portland • California, Illinois, Maine, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $214,000 - $285,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Azure
About the role
- Lead, mentor, and manage your team through the successful delivery of valuable customer software.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and strengthen TDD and BDD processes.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management by providing technical guidance on software design.
- Guide your team on best practices, coding standards, and design principles.
- Conduct performance reviews, set goals, and support professional development for team members.
- Measure, inspect, and drive decisions using data.
- Design, test, code, and instrument new solutions.
- Support live applications, promote proactive monitoring, rapid incident response and troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
- Analyze existing systems and processes to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements.
- Understand how your domain fits into and contributes to the overall company and drive any needed changes to increase productivity.
- Partner with cross functional teams to influence priority, expectations, and timelines within your domain and/or product vertical.
- Lead the platform verticals in fully automating continuous code integration and code deployment process on Azure.
- Drive the long term vision and the strategy to achieve the vision for the technology organization.
- Interact and communicate effectively with peer groups, non-technical organizations, and middle management.
- Drive collaboration across technology teams to foster innovation and follow guidelines around re-usability of frameworks and governance of architecture patterns.
- Partner with the 3rd party vendors and service providers to ensure best in class service model.
- Drive innovation in the organization with transformative technologies like Generative AI and use of Agentic AI frameworks like Autogen or Langchain.
- Drive the design and architecture of the systems and applications to be always available, performant and highly secure.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; OR a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
- A minimum of 15 years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or at least 10 years of software engineering experience with a Master’s degree.
- A minimum of 10 years of management/supervisory experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field , or 8 years management/supervisory experience with a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
- Ability to lead and inspire engineering teams to achieve exceptional results.
- Strategic thinker with a track record of aligning technical direction with business goals and driving innovation.
- Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Strong passion for modern technologies, design principles, and continuous learning.
- Comprehensive understanding of software security principles, including OWASP guidelines.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software engineeringTDDBDDcontinuous code integrationcode deploymentGenerative AIAgentic AIAutogenLangchainsoftware security
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationinspirationgoal settingprofessional developmentinnovation
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Software EngineeringMaster’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Software Engineering