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Role Description

The Director of Software Engineering leads the organization’s software development functions, overseeing multiple development teams while driving the technical maturity, operational discipline, and architectural direction of the company’s enterprise software ecosystem. This is a fully remote position within the United States.

This role is responsible for:

• Building and leading high-performing engineering teams
• Delivering secure, scalable enterprise applications
• Establishing modern DevOps, CI/CD, QA, and SDLC practices
• Supporting the evolution of a unified enterprise platform accessible to both internal users and external clients

The Director balances strong people leadership with technical credibility and operational execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline (Master’s preferred).
• 10+ years of product leadership experience, including managing or owning SaaS products or platforms.
• Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-grade digital platforms with strong security, stability, and integration requirements.
• Strong technical background—capable of partnering with software engineers, AI/ML developers, GIS analysts, and field tech experts to build a unified platform.
• Experience with enterprise architecture, API design, cloud infrastructure, and data governance.
• Knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, cybersecurity frameworks, and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Strong understanding of agile product delivery, software development lifecycles, UX principles, and platform release management.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, able to translate technical concepts into business value.
• Experience in the AEC, industrial, utility, or field operations technology sectors is highly desirable.

Requirements

• Director owns the primary accountability for Team performance, morale, growth, and delivery consistency.
• Lead and develop development managers, technical leads, and senior developers.
• Build high-performing, accountable teams aligned to business priorities.
• Establish clear role definitions, ownership models, and reporting structures.
• Create career development paths and technical growth frameworks.
• Conduct performance management, coaching, and talent reviews.
• Drive strategic hiring to support platform maturity and delivery needs.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee incident response processes and platform monitoring standards.
• Improve backlog management, sprint discipline, and cross-team coordination.
• Establish developer performance metrics such as delivery predictability, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and system reliability and uptime.
• Remove obstacles impacting delivery and execution.
• Partner with Product and Project leadership to align capacity with priorities.
• Provide architectural oversight across the organization’s core applications.
• Guide consolidation of systems into a unified enterprise ecosystem.
• Define shared services strategy (authentication, authorization, APIs, logging, monitoring, data services).
• Support scalable, secure system design capable of supporting external client access.
• Govern major technical decisions while empowering teams to execute.
• Oversee development of systems accessible to external clients.
• Implement role-based access control and identity management standards.
• Partner with infrastructure and security teams on cloud architecture, secure data handling, audit logging, and environment separation.
• Implementing and standardizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Governing source control and branching strategies.
• Establishing environment promotion models.
• Formalizing release management practices.
• Driving infrastructure-as-code and automation where appropriate.
• Improving deployment reliability and release velocity.
• Establish standardized SDLC lifecycle gates.
• Define testing expectations (unit, integration, regression, security, performance).
• Introduce automated testing standards.
• Improve defect management and root cause analysis.
• Manage technical debt prioritization.
• Align development documentation with audit-readiness and compliance needs.
• Establishing KPIs across platform adoption and utilization, system uptime and reliability, deployment frequency and change failure rate, security posture and vulnerability remediation timelines, and development throughput and delivery predictability.
• Developing dashboards and reporting mechanisms that provide visibility to executive leadership.
• Delivering quarterly updates summarizing platform performance and reliability metrics, roadmap progress, technical risk areas, and strategic outcomes and value delivered.
• Evaluating emerging technologies, architectural trends, and evolving client needs to guide platform evolution.
• Using data to inform investment decisions, staffing models, and technical prioritization.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Career advancement opportunities
• Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, 401(k), and supplemental insurance

Company Description

Orbital Engineering, Inc. has provided worldwide professional engineering and consulting services since 1969. Our commitment to quality, responsiveness, and attention to detail has earned us the reputation as a leading provider of engineering and design services.