Top Director Of Engineering Jobs

Leads a product engineering domain responsible for client-facing SaaS products, integrations, and workflows. Oversees hiring, coaching, architecture, delivery, incident management, and multiple product lines. Partners with Product Management on strategy and roadmaps, communicates tradeoffs across business functions, supports client engagements, and ensures reliable, high-quality releases. The role requires strong backend product engineering expertise and leadership in complex data environments.

Lead North American engineering delivery for industrial automation across US and Mexico. Oversee mechanical, electrical, PLC/robot programming, and installation teams; own project execution, utilization, gross margin, and project P&L; build talent and vendor networks; report KPIs to the CTO and ensure regional alignment with global technical strategy.

Lead the Charlotte engineering team, set technical direction, oversee land development projects from concept through construction, ensure compliance and safety, mentor staff, manage budgets and schedules, and represent engineering to clients and stakeholders.

Lead and grow a civil land development engineering team, set technical direction, oversee projects from concept through construction, ensure regulatory compliance and safety, collaborate with surveying, construction management, and business development, represent engineering to clients and municipalities, and manage budgets, schedules, and quality.

Leads electrical engineering design and delivery for data center projects, covering LV, MV, and HV systems, power distribution, backup power, grounding, controls, white-space infrastructure, and construction support. Establishes design standards, reviews designs and submittals, supports equipment selection and troubleshooting, coordinates stakeholders, and develops a team of electrical engineers. Requires extensive experience with mission-critical or large-scale projects and strong knowledge of electrical codes and power systems.

Leads Cisco’s Customer Engineering organization, establishing its operating model, escalation processes, SLAs, and global team. Oversees high-stakes enterprise production incidents, root-cause analyses, AI-driven diagnostic automation, engineering rotations, and product feedback. Partners with core engineering, product management, customer experience, and sales to improve reliability and reduce resolution times. Recruits and develops customer-facing engineering leaders while managing operational metrics, hotfix governance, runbooks, and customer outcomes.

Leads AbbVie’s Process Engineering department supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing, formulation, scale-up, process optimization, capital projects, and CMC lifecycle activities. Manages engineers and scientists, partners with manufacturing and quality teams, oversees budgets and project execution, supports regulatory audits, ensures health and safety compliance, and provides technical, business, coaching, and strategic leadership across internal and contract manufacturing operations.

Leads pharmaceutical process engineering for manufacturing and contract facilities. Manages engineers and scientists, oversees CMC lifecycle activities, supports product launches, drives process optimization and capital projects, ensures regulatory and quality compliance, and provides technical, business, and people leadership.

Leads AbbVie’s Process Engineering department and manages engineers and scientists supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing. Oversees CMC lifecycle activities, process optimization, capital projects, product launches, contract manufacturing partnerships, regulatory audits, budgets, and technical strategies. Provides cross-functional leadership with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and science teams while ensuring safety, compliance, cost effectiveness, and timely project execution. Coaches managers and staff and ensures resources support site and departmental objectives.

Leads AbbVie’s pharmaceutical Process Engineering department, managing engineers and scientists supporting formulation manufacturing, CMC lifecycle activities, scale-up, product launches, process optimization, capital projects, and contract manufacturing. Provides technical, scientific, business, and people leadership; partners with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and external stakeholders; oversees budgets, timelines, regulatory audits, safety, and project execution. Develops engineering strategies and mentors department staff.

Leads and scales Decagon’s pre-sales Solutions Engineering function by hiring and developing the team, establishing technical validation and proof-of-concept processes, partnering with Sales, Product, and Engineering, and guiding enterprise customers through solution design, demonstrations, integrations, and ROI validation. Serves as an executive-level technical representative while shaping go-to-market strategies, customer insights, and scalable team processes for enterprise AI adoption.

Leads cloud engineering teams developing secure, scalable platforms and composite solutions for Fidelity’s cloud transformation. Responsibilities include managing technical priorities, modernizing legacy mainframe components, directing Agile teams, building containerized applications and API platforms, supporting mission-critical systems, developing technology strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering cloud solutions using AWS and modern infrastructure technologies.

Leads engineering delivery for Verizon’s enterprise AI platform, including an AI Gateway and Agent Development Lifecycle. Manages 3–5 engineers, owns the roadmap, operates Kubernetes across GCP and AWS, delivers model routing and LLMOps capabilities, establishes developer SDKs and self-service onboarding, manages FinOps and platform SLAs, and drives secure, scalable agent deployment and enterprise adoption.

Leads the global strategy, roadmap, governance, and delivery of ServiceNow products, enterprise data, CMDB, and platform capabilities. Partners with manufacturing, research, security, and business leaders to translate needs into technology roadmaps, improve data quality, enable AI-ready workflows, and drive enterprise-scale platform reliability. Oversees engineering, development, testing, operations, budgets, vendor relationships, leadership development, compliance, and delivery excellence across a distributed organization.

Lead and scale a Support Engineering function for Ashby across the Americas. Own vision, operating model, escalation/triage standards, reporting, tooling, and cross-functional feedback with Product and Engineering. Manage a Support Engineering Manager, drive hiring and career paths, and use data to reduce recurring technical friction while balancing immediate customer resolution with durable product improvements.

Directs clinical engineering operations across nine hospitals, overseeing biomedical engineering, imaging maintenance, equipment uptime, preventive maintenance, service providers, complex projects, budgets, compliance, and performance reporting. Leads site-based engineering leadership, contractor management, equipment lifecycle planning, resource development, competency standards, and continuous improvement while partnering with clinical and executive stakeholders to ensure safe and reliable medical-device service.

Directs the financial, contractual, compliance, sourcing, capital-planning, and business operations of a multi-site clinical engineering program. Oversees budgets, equipment replacement planning, vendor and service contracts, regulatory and recall compliance, medical-device cybersecurity coordination, asset recovery, CMMS analytics, facility integrations, and staff development. Partners with Finance, Supply Chain, Information Security, clinical leaders, vendors, and OEMs to standardize processes, control costs, and maximize equipment value.

Lead and grow Proof’s IT Engineering team while transforming corporate IT from reactive help desk support into an engineering-first function. Own the strategy and roadmap for identity, access, endpoints, SaaS, vendors, procurement, and budgeting. Mentor engineers, implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, automation, and AI-driven operations, reduce ticket volume through root-cause fixes, and partner with InfoSec on security and compliance.

Leads enterprise AI/ML engineering strategy and governance, partnering with executive stakeholders, AI platform leaders, product owners, Legal, InfoSec, and Responsible AI teams. Directs Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, oversees production ML reliability and scalable data science code, and makes deployment decisions using governance frameworks, evaluation architectures, dashboards, and AI registration systems. Manages team planning and ensures compliance with corporate policies, AI safety standards, and risk frameworks.

Leads engineering for Lilly’s advanced therapies manufacturing site, overseeing process engineering, automation, maintenance, utilities, plant and project engineering. Directs site engineering strategy, organization building, facility startup, equipment qualification, safety, GMP compliance, capital investment planning, project delivery, and operational readiness. Partners with site leadership and project teams to establish systems, develop high-performing teams, support manufacturing operations, and maintain qualified, safe, and compliant facilities for clinical and commercial production.

Lead and execute the Payments Platform vision: own strategy, architecture, and roadmap for payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation and partner integrations. Build and grow engineering managers and senior engineers, drive platform reliability, observability, security, and scalability, set OKRs, manage cross-functional delivery, and align technology with business, product, risk and compliance outcomes.

Leads engineering strategy and staff for municipal water, wastewater, and reclaimed-water infrastructure. Responsibilities include utility studies, design review, capital improvement planning, asset management, permitting, technical calculations, project design and construction support, consultant and contract management, budgeting, regulatory compliance, operational troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication. The role supervises department personnel, presents recommendations to the governing board, and requires professional engineering licensure or eligibility.

Leads software engineering managers and multi-team delivery across marketplace, pharmacy systems, RCM, integration, workflow, and RPA platforms. Owns delivery planning, platform ownership, capacity forecasting, contractor strategy, financial planning, career development, governance, quality alignment, incident escalation, and responsible AI adoption in the software development lifecycle. Partners with executive stakeholders across IT, QA, Product, Informatics, Architecture, DevOps, Data, and Security.

Lead cloud-based data engineering delivery for UHC HEDIS retrospective processing. Manage large teams of data engineers and SMEs, drive AI/GenAI adoption, ensure NCQA/compliance alignment, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, remove execution barriers, and evaluate emerging trends to inform scalable, quality-focused solutions.

Lead microelectronics engineering and 6-inch wafer foundry operations across design, fabrication, packaging, and production. Oversee strategy, budgets, KPIs, compliance, and continuous improvement while mentoring engineers and driving roadmap development, cost reduction, and on-time delivery for high-visibility defense programs.