Director, Product Software Engineering

About the Role:
As a Director in Software Engineering, you will provide comprehensive leadership to senior managers and high-level professionals. You will have primary responsibility for the performance and results within your area, ensuring that all software engineering activities align with business strategies. Your role is crucial for steering the direction of major projects and technological advancements that will drive the company forward.

Responsibilities:
• Provide strategic leadership and direction for the product software engineering department, aligning it with overall business objectives in the context of a matrixed organization.
• Communicate effectively in a matrixed organization with senior management, peers, and subordinates to ensure alignment and collaboration.
• Develop and define departmental objectives, strategies, and goals to drive the success of software projects.
• Establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships within the department and with other stakeholders.
• Stay updated with relevant knowledge, technologies, and best practices to drive innovation within the department.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards and best practices in software development.
• Make critical decisions and solve complex problems related to software development and team management.
• Develop and build high-performing teams of software engineers, fostering their growth and productivity.
• Organize, plan, and prioritize the department's work to ensure efficient use of resources and timely project delivery.
• Utilize data analysis and information to drive data-driven decisions and measure the success of software products.
• Monitor development processes, framework adoptions, and project surroundings, optimizing efficiency and adherence to standards.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to team members, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Provide guidance and direction to subordinates, ensuring they align with the department's vision.
• Monitor ongoing processes, materials, or surroundings, providing feedback for continuous improvement.
• Evaluate information and software products to ensure compliance with industry standards.

Skills:
• DevOps: An ability to use systems and processes to coordinate between development and operations teams in order to improve and speed up software development processes. This includes automation, continuous delivery, agility, and rapid response to feedback.
• Product Software Engineering: The ability to design, develop, test, and deploy software products. It involves understanding user needs, defining functional specifications, designing system architecture, coding, debugging, and ensuring product quality. It also requires knowledge of various programming languages, tools and methodologies, and ability to work within diverse teams and manage projects.
• Cloud Computing: The ability to utilize and manage applications, data, and services on the internet rather than on a personal computer or local server. This skill involves understanding various cloud services (like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), managing resources online, and setting up cloud-based platforms for business environment.
• Implementation and Delivery: This is a skill that pertains to the ability to translate plans and designs into action. It involves executing strategies effectively, overseeing the delivery of projects or services, and ensuring they are completed in a timely and efficient manner. It also necessitates the coordination of various tasks and management of resources to achieve the set objectives.
• Problem Solving: The ability to understand a complex situation or issue and devise a solution by defining the problem, identifying potential strategies, and ultimately choosing and implementing the most effective course of action.
• People management: The ability to lead, motivate, engage and communicate effectively with a team. This includes skills in delegation, conflict resolution, negotiation, and understanding team dynamics. It also involves building a strong team culture and managing individual performance.
• Agile: The ability to swiftly and effectively respond to changes, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and flexibility. In the context of project management, it denotes a methodology that promotes adaptive planning and encourages rapid and flexible responses to changes.
• APIs: The ability to design, develop, and manage Application Programming Interfaces, which constitute the set of protocols and tools used for building application software. This skill includes the capacity to create and maintain high-quality API documentation, implement API security practices, and understand API testing techniques. Additionally, having this ability means understanding how APIs enable interaction between different software systems, allowing them to communicate with each other.
• Analysis: The ability to examine complex situations or problems, break them down into smaller parts, and understand how these parts work together.
• Automation: The ability to design, implement, manage, and optimize automated systems or processes, often using various software tools and technologies. This skill includes understanding both the technical elements and the business implications of automated systems.
• Frameworks: The ability to understand, utilise, and create structured environments for software development. This skill also involves being able to leverage existing frameworks to streamline processes, ensuring better efficiency and code manageability in software development projects.
• Financial Budget management: The ability to plan, coordinate, control, and execute financial resources over a certain period, and make decisions on distribution of resources efficiently and effectively. This includes estimating revenues, costs and expenses, and ensuring they align with the set goals or targets.
• Application Security: The ability to protect applications from threats and attacks by identifying, fixing, and preventing security vulnerabilities. This skill involves the use of software methods and systems to protect applications against security threats.
• Architectural patterns: The ability to understand, analyze, and apply predefined design solutions to structural problems in architecture and software development. This skill involves applying proven patterns to resolve complex design challenges and create efficient and scalable structures, maintaining balance between functional requirements and aesthetic appeal.

Competencies:
• Judgement & Decision Making
• Accountability
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Inspiration & Alignment
• Courage to Take Smart Risks
• Financial Acumen

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.