Overview

As an Executive Director of Engineering, you will lead multiple engineering teams through a layer of engineering management, reporting to senior technology leadership and partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders across the business. You will be responsible for delivering scalable backend platforms, data services, and data products that address critical business and technical challenges.

This role requires a strong blend of strategic leadership, technical depth, organizational design, and operational excellence. You will set direction, empower engineering managers, drive execution across a portfolio of initiatives, and ensure your organization consistently delivers secure, reliable, and high-quality solutions aligned with company goals.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery, execution, and outcomes across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment to organizational objectives, key results, and business priorities.
• Lead and develop engineering managers, enabling them to effectively run their teams, grow their people, and deliver high-impact results.
• Build a high-performing engineering organization by driving clarity of accountability, strong operating rhythms, talent development, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with product, architecture, data, security, and business stakeholders to shape strategy, define roadmaps, and translate priorities into executable plans.
• Oversee the design, development, and operation of backend data services, APIs, pipelines, and data products, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Drive technical and architectural decision-making in partnership with architects and senior engineers, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term business needs.
• Establish and improve engineering processes across planning, estimation, prioritization, execution, dependency management, and release delivery.
• Ensure visibility into portfolio health through clear communication of plans, risks, milestones, status, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Champion engineering excellence by promoting modern software development practices, code quality, test automation, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.
• Oversee production reliability through effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and response processes, ensuring teams proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Ensure strong data governance and engineering discipline across systems, including data quality, security, privacy, and compliance with applicable standards and regulations.
• Partner with leadership on organizational planning, staffing strategy, succession planning, and resource allocation across teams and priorities.
• Coach leaders and teams through change, helping the organization scale effectively while maintaining engagement, accountability, and delivery momentum.
• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and engineering best practices, and drive thoughtful adoption where it creates business value.