Development Engineering Director

Overview

Working with the VP of Development, this San Diego, CA-based Director of Technology Development will lead a team responsible for the ongoing management, enhancements, and new development of OEM solution initiatives supporting the Automotive Agency practice, specifically within the Enterprise Reporting area.

We are looking for a technology leader to bring innovation and strong development practices in the support of and creation of reporting and analytic applications. This position will manage a team of onshore and offshore employees and contractors through the delivery of an initiatives roadmap and be a leader of architectural design to meet the needs of our client programs.

Key success factors include the ability to work cooperatively with an ecosystem of internal partners including Product Management, Production Support, and Analytics. The Director of Technology Development should have strong collaborative instincts, strategic experience and confidence in architectural and delivery decision-making, and demonstrable experience in bringing to market complex, integrated automotive solutions.

Responsibilities

• Building and integrating systems and solutions to meet the company’s needs, including a focus on our cloud initiative.

• Management responsibility for team members and contractors and oversight of the development of more junior team members.

• Assessing the current systems architecture and working with technical staff to recommend improvements.

• Designing and modifying technology architecture to meet required application functionality.

• Provide day-to-day leadership over development teams (design/build and maintenance/break-fix) driving the stability and growth of an enterprise reporting database and ecosystem.

• Provide thought leadership related to solution architecture, capabilities, SDLC and maintenance operations.

• Support development efforts and resolve technical problems as they arise, including conceptual design, sizing and pricing, project plan development, proof-of-concept development, implementation and monitoring.

• Lead implementation teams to ensure quality, completeness and timeliness of solution delivery.

• Accountable for resource planning and management as well as monitoring and optimizing staff and delivery scope against prioritized targets.

• Scope and plan required application/database infrastructure needs to support client engagements and monitor deployment delivery.

• Act as the initial contact for project delivery teams regarding significant operational issues and challenges.

• Manage offshore development team and drive cost savings/efficiencies through offshore delivery.

• Stay abreast of latest technology trends and Epsilon product offerings to inform planning, business development, and client technology roadmaps.

• Manage career growth and development of staff through coaching and mentoring; set goals and monitor performance against those goals.

• Communicate effectively with direct supervisor and upper management on engagement activities and overall health of the engagement, synthesizing key achievements, success criteria, staff, client, and risk information and escalating critical issues as needed.

• Oversee and implement continual process improvement initiatives, both corporate-driven and individually defined.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of direct experience managing complex IT projects, preferably in the automotive technology space; comfortable managing the full development lifecycle.

• Experience managing teams across multiple geographical and functional areas.

• Minimum 5 years experience in full stack development including UI/UX design, microservices and database technologies.

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience with cloud-based technologies.

• Experience with on-prem to cloud migration projects.

• Solid technical background in .NET Microsoft stack, Angular, middleware API design, SQL Server, Oracle and Greenplum database technologies.

• Experience managing in an environment with multi-country/cultural teams.

• Expert in Agile, full development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Excellent leadership and people management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple high-priority efforts…