Senior Director, Software Development (Hybrid, Denver)

About Us
Today, Accuris specializes in SaaS technology solutions that leverage proprietary artificial intelligence and unmatched access to engineering data and insights embedded into workflows to solve problems, reduce risk, and accelerate innovation. We serve more than 6,000 global customers and 650,000 engineering end users across 100+ countries and dozens of industries, including aerospace and defense, energy, sustainability, construction, and architecture. In partnership with 400+ Standards Development Organizations, we streamline access to 2.8 million engineering standards to drive innovation and progress worldwide.
Position Summary
As Senior Director of Software Engineering, you will lead the development of Accuris' next-generation product offering that supports model-based systems engineering (MBSE), requirements management, and interoperability between PLM and ALM systems. You will work closely with Product and Architecture leadership to shape strategy, align roadmaps, and deliver intelligent, scalable, and secure solutions that transform how engineering teams manage complexity across the product lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge AI to real-world engineering challenges while guiding high-performing teams to build products that define the future of digital engineering.
Job Responsibilities

• Lead and Scale Engineering Teams: Provide both technological and organizational leadership across multiple agile/scrum teams, ensuring clarity of vision, accountability, and consistent delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Ensure Alignment with Enterprise Architecture: Guide teams to produce strong technical designs that align with established enterprise architecture; collaborate closely with the Architecture team to ensure solutions are scalable, interoperable, and fit within the broader technology landscape.
• Champion Pragmatism & Excellence: Drive the right balance between technical elegance, functional requirements, and practical business outcomes while implementing and integrating new technologies.
• Deliver with Quality & Velocity: Take a leadership role in ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of products across the full application lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and support.
• Advance Modern Engineering Practices: Evolve and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines; collaborate with quality engineering teams to strengthen automated unit, regression, and integration testing.
• Build Cross-Functional Partnerships: Cultivate strong relationships with Product, Architecture, IT, business stakeholders, and external partners; ensure engineering outcomes align with enterprise priorities and customer needs.
• Develop People & Teams: Mentor and coach engineers, scrum leads, and technical leaders; foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and a culture of innovation across all engineering teams.
• Align Technology to Strategy: Maintain a deep understanding of business goals and long-term strategy, ensuring that architectural and technical decisions directly support customer needs and strategic objectives.

Experience

• Proven Track Record: 15+ years of progressive responsibility in technical and engineering leadership roles, including 5+ years leading multiple agile development teams in a scaled environment.
• Technical Breadth with Depth in .NET: Ability to work across a variety of programming languages with deep expertise in the core project stack (.NET Core / C#).
• Modern Architectures & Cloud: Hands-on experience with microservices design, RESTful APIs, and SaaS/PaaS application development; strong background deploying and scaling cloud-native applications across multiple cloud providers.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Proficiency with container runtimes and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, including real-world experience running production workloads.
• Data & Event-Driven Systems: Experience architecting and developing solutions for high-volume data ingestion and processing using technologies such as Kafka, Redis, or Apache Storm.
• Continuous Delivery: Demonstrated success designing and evolving CI/CD pipelines, enforcing quality practices, and enabling rapid, reliable release cycles.
• AI & Search (Preferred): Familiarity with search and indexing technologies; experience applying AI/ML to engineering workflows is a strong plus.
• Business Acumen: Strong judgment in balancing technical trade-offs with business needs; able to prioritize effectively, collaborate across functions, and thrive in ambiguous environments.
• Leadership & Communication: Exceptional communication skills with a track record of mentoring, influencing, and bringing together diverse teams and cultures to achieve shared goals.
• Strong, effective communication skills as to bring multiple personalities and cultures together to work towards a common goal.

Education
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (advanced degree preferred).
What We Offer
Competitive base salary, bonus and equity as part of our employee ownership plan. A comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance plans, paid time off, a generous 401k match with no vesting period, parental leave and 3 volunteering days each year. For more information on benefits, please ask the recruiter assigned to the role.
For work locations in the state of Colorado, the anticipated compensation will be $180,000 - $210,000 base salary + annual bonus + equity. Final compensation will be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the applicant.
About Company Statement
Accuris delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world's leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup.
Our mission: Build an evolvable knowledge and data platform that enables professionals to unlock and deliver innovation to the world's most complex problems.
Accuris provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.