Senior Director, Development Engineering

Key responsibilities:

• Directs teams in achieving the overall strategy of the development engineering function.
• Drives accountability, consistency, quality, and process standardization across all phases of research and development.
• Ensures the execution of advanced analytical techniques to extend scientific theories in innovative research projects.
• Provides leadership, direction, and mentorship for development engineering function within and across region/geographies.
• Responsible for the development and monitoring of the development engineering budget.
• Develops policy and strategy in support of the organization's goals (short and long term).
• Provides support to, manages and coordinates and identifies the implementation of development engineering protocols or projects.
• Ensures compliance with relevant legislation as applicable.
• Provides advice and recommendations to business leaders based on research to influence strategic decisions.
• Translates the company's strategic objectives and vision into a successful development engineering product strategy.
• Provides feedback to stakeholders on the current and future path of development engineering roadmap.
• Develops and drives implementation of business plan and budget required to execute an annual and multi-year development and engineering plan.
• Develops and monitors metrics as required and convey metrics to ensure appropriate alignment and executive awareness.
• Ensures timely and consistent communication to stakeholders on risk management and change management associated with the technology and development portfolio.
• Actively promotes new ways of working that drive agility, speed, and design-thinking.
• Champions cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teaming.
• Implements, maintains and monitors standards, controls, processes, and solutions to minimize business and IT risk, ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements and standards.
• Accountable for driving continuous improvement within the Development Engineering function.
• Builds long-term, strategic relationships with executive stakeholders in a large client organization.
• Sets research goals by making effective proposals for the investment of funds in research and development projects.
• Makes recommendations based on research to influence strategic direction.
• Builds a shared sense of direction, clarify priorities and goals, and inspire others to achieve these.
• Works with others to translate strategic direction into operational goals and build a shared understanding of the link between these and core business outcomes.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Significantly vast leadership capability with excellent communication skills.
• Customer-centric leader with excellent relationship management skills.
• Significantly vast knowledge of product management and service development life cycles.
• Significantly vast knowledge of relevant industry best practices.
• Excellent commercial acumen.
• Significantly vast understanding of market trends that influence the profitability of an organization, particularly related to products and services.
• Ability to think strategically and consideration of the bigger picture.
• Ability to inspire and motivate teams, recognizing team contributions and providing encouragement to achieve best performance.
• Demonstrates resilience in the face of setbacks and challenges, maintaining a positive attitude and inspiring the team to overcome obstacles.
• Ability to prioritize projects/programs effectively to achieve deadlines.
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable in the face of change and uncertainty.
• Ability to lead by example in embracing new challenges and learning from experiences.
• Ability to facilitate presentation of technical and complex matters to Executive/Senior Leadership levels.
• Ability to evaluate risks, priorities and business benefits, leveraging strong business knowledge.
• Ability to keep current with trends, client insights, and competitive strategies.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Technical Management or Business Administration or related field.
• Relevant project management/agile certifications for example, PMP, CSM, PSPO, POPM) are advantageous.

Required experience:

• Significantly vast demonstrated experience building, managing and leading high performance software development, engineering and/or architecture teams.
• Significantly vast coaching, mentoring, and operational management experience.
• Significantly vast project/program management experience.
• Significantly vast demonstrated experience gained at Director level within a large complex organization, particularly a period of significant change within the organization.
• Significantly vast technical expertise and industry experience.
• Significantly vast demonstrated experience in dealing with relevant Senior Leadership level stakeholders.
• Substantial experience in building strong relationships and negotiating with key decision makers and influencers
• Substantial demonstrable track record of involvement in research and development of new products or product lines
• Substantial experience developing programs that address the research and development industry trends
• Substantial experience analyzing development needs of the development engineering team
• Substantial experience working with Scaled Agile approach and methodology
• Substantial demonstrated experience of developing and implementing relevant strategies in a multi supplier environment, managing third party services
• Substantial people management responsibilities and/or allocation of resources within a department or project environment