SparkCognition catalyzes sustainable growth for our clients throughout the world with proven artificial intelligence (AI) systems, award-winning machine learning technology, and a multinational team of AI thought leaders. Our clients are trusted with advancing lives, infrastructure, sustainability, and financial systems across the globe. They partner with SparkCognition to understand their industry's most pressing challenges, analyze complex data, empower decision-making, and transform human and industrial productivity with scalable AI solutions to solve the problems that matter most. With our leading-edge artificial intelligence products and solutions, our clients can adapt to a rapidly changing digital landscape, accelerate their business strategies, and reduce environmental impact creating a better, smarter, and more sustainable world.
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to help take our domain-driven development team to the next level and will manage the release of one of our products. You should possess a strong technical aptitude in the area of front-end or back-end software engineering, preferably with experience building Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing systems, along with strong management and leadership skills.
You will work closely with software development team managers, architects and product managers to lead the team (and our organization) towards success. We are looking for someone who can come in and immediately make an impact helping guide the development team in best practices in software development.
If you were working for us today, you would be:

• Work closely with other managers, product managers and architects to set the direction and priorities of the domain development team
• Provide management and support to a team of software engineers and data scientists who are responsible for all aspects of developing specific domain product components
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and knowledge of software development best practices to the team
• Act as Product Owner and Release Manager for one of our products.
• Contribute to the development of software as an active member of the development team as necessary
• Further define and build out our infrastructure engineering capabilities
• Manage and improve the day-to-day operations of our build, testing, and continuous integration environments
• Support an effective developer workflow including build, test automation, and deployment
• Lead and mentor software development and domain specific architecture teams

You may be a fit for our team if you have:

• 7+ years of software development and management combined
• Strong ability to lead a team of software engineers, assess their strengths and enable them to succeed in their day to day work
• Excellent communication skills and be able to interact effectively with other members of the management team.
• Proven experience managing multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
• Experience with agile software development, preferably from a leadership perspective
• Experience with at least one programming language: Scala, Python, C#, Java, etc
• Experience with development operations of continuous integration, automated testing, build automation, and automation of dev process

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