Director of Software Engineering
Are you a skilled leader with a desire to lead a team solving highly complex business problems?
Do you enjoy leading cross functional teams in different Countries?
About the Business
At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium at the link below. https://www.cirium.com
About the Role
As Director of Engineering, will be part of the delivery leadership team responsible and accountable for Cirium’s ability to ingest, store, process, and deliver the data that drives both internal and external products and services. Utilizing your leadership experience, you will lead engineering teams, which could be in both our UK and India locations, with internal and external customers across the globe. This is a tactical and strategic role, reporting to the VP of Technology and sitting on Cirium’s Tech Leadership Team (TLT), that is pivotal to our ability to operate as an efficient and effective Tech organization.
Responsibilities:
- Providing strategic direction for multiple teams of Software Engineers and Data Engineers in the UK and India responsible for ingesting, processing, and storing data that drives over $100M of revenue.
- Managing and develop the skills of the managers on the Data Engineering teams. Actively coach and drive the organization towards a high-performance culture.
- Identifying opportunities for improvement and standardization of our pipelines and processes and work with Business and Tech stakeholders to deliver initiatives with tangible value.
- Tracking and reporting on the progress of projects and initiatives to senior leadership using a data-driven approach.
- Understanding in-depth the cost profile and key cost drivers of the Data Systems org and actively seek opportunities to introduce cost efficiencies.
- Bring thought leadership into the Tech Leadership Team (TLT) to deliver cross-functional programs of work designed to consolidate and standardize ways of working, as well as improving our operational efficiency.
Requirements:
- Experience in a technical role on an Engineering team and understand the workload, challenges, and best practices when it comes to data engineering. You can speak knowledgeably and with authority to both technical and non-technical audiences about Data concepts.
- A passion for and experience in nurturing a High Performance mindset within Engineering teams that yielded demonstrable productivity gains and positive customer outcomes.
- Experience of managing Engineering teams and at least 2 years managing Managers. You know how to coach and mentor engineers in a global workforce across all experience levels and have a strong track record of building and leading teams through change. You understand how to partner with Business and Tech stakeholders to gain support for complex, technical programs of work.
- Experience in delivering complex change programs centered on continuous improvement and tech debt remediation. You have a bias for action and know how to balance BAU work with Project work to ensure that your teams and your estate consistently improves.
- Experience with Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, and everything in-between and know which methodology is right for each use-case. You are an enthusiastic evangelist of Agile methodology and have experience coaching teams towards adoption and improvement of Agile processes.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication to convey vision, milestones, and progress to diverse, global teams across all levels of the organization.
- Have a passion for learning about different approaches to solving problems and you know how to apply your learning to real-world situations.
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Skills Required
- Experience in a technical role on an engineering team with strong knowledge of data engineering concepts
- Experience nurturing a high-performance engineering culture with demonstrable productivity and customer outcomes
- Experience managing engineering teams and at least 2 years managing managers, coaching global engineers across levels
- Experience delivering complex change programs focused on continuous improvement and tech debt remediation
- Experience with Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban and coaching Agile adoption and process improvement
- Excellent verbal and written communication to convey vision and progress to global stakeholders
- Experience leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams (UK and India)
- Passion for learning different problem-solving approaches and applying them to real-world situations
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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