Top Director Of Engineering Jobs

Leads architecture, development, scalability, security, and performance of enterprise data platforms and pipelines. Manages engineering teams, cross-functional initiatives, cloud and data modernization migrations, technology budgets, resources, vendors, and complex programs. Establishes engineering standards through coaching and talent development while partnering with data, product, governance, and business stakeholders. Oversees distributed processing, data governance, data quality, database design, cloud-native architectures, and platform resiliency.

Direct the architecture, development, deployment, and modernization of large-scale cloud-native payment and clearing systems. Lead engineering teams, define technical roadmaps, and ensure high availability, resiliency, security, regulatory compliance, and scalability. Oversee real-time transaction processing, ISO 20022 integrations, Kafka and Spark streaming, AWS deployments, data pipelines, CI/CD, observability, and self-healing frameworks. Collaborate with financial institutions and senior stakeholders while recruiting and developing technical talent.

Lead the 0-to-1 architecture, development, testing, and launch of Riverside Insights’ Reach platform and next-generation CogAT assessment. Build and manage a 6–10 engineer team, make build-versus-buy decisions, oversee AWS infrastructure and regulated-data compliance, lead customer migration, and translate product roadmaps into technical execution. The role is hands-on, requiring active coding, full-stack fluency, AI-native development, cross-functional partnership, and senior leadership communication.

Leads and architects a multidisciplinary engineering organization spanning electrical, firmware, mobile, software, and cloud systems. Provides hands-on technical leadership in system architecture, design reviews, troubleshooting, quality standards, and secure development. Recruits and mentors engineering teams, manages external vendors and manufacturers, oversees budgets and deliverables, and partners with product, quality, regulatory, and operations teams to deliver reliable connected healthcare products from development through mass production.

Leads resort engineering and facilities operations, overseeing building systems, preventive maintenance, safety compliance, budgets, capital projects, vendor management, records, and emergency response. Recruits, schedules, trains, coaches, and evaluates engineering staff while supporting guest satisfaction and protecting hotel assets. The role requires hands-on knowledge of HVAC, plumbing, electrical, refrigeration, water treatment, life safety, automation, and energy management systems.

Leads multiple engineering teams building Scout Motors’ customer-facing web and mobile platforms, including digital commerce, checkout, vehicle companion applications, identity, and connected vehicle experiences. Defines architecture, engineering strategy, roadmaps, performance standards, and organizational capabilities. Partners across Product, Marketing, Sales, Vehicle Engineering, IT, Security, and external vendors to deliver scalable, secure, high-performing customer journeys. Oversees hiring, leadership development, resource planning, platform investments, experimentation, analytics, and operational excellence.

Directs hotel engineering and facilities maintenance, including preventative maintenance for guest rooms, public areas, equipment, and building systems. Oversees engineering schedules, labor, payroll approval, inventories, service contracts, emergency response, guest maintenance calls, training, evaluations, coaching, and discipline. Requires broad knowledge of electrical, HVAC, plumbing, carpentry, mechanical, utility, safety, communications, and hotel equipment systems, with frequent indoor and outdoor physical work.

Directs hotel engineering and maintenance operations, prioritizes work requests, resolves guest and staff issues, manages parts, utilities, labor costs, life-safety systems, and hotel assets. Supervises, trains, and motivates engineering staff, handles HVAC, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, kitchen, fountain, and IT-related systems, develops energy-saving initiatives, supports risk management, and remains on call for emergencies and Manager on Duty coverage.

Lead the design and implementation of large-scale AI and machine learning systems for Yahoo Search across multiple teams. Define data strategies, evaluation frameworks, and scalable production-serving approaches. Drive technical alignment among engineering, product, design, and research teams; guide adoption of large language models, vision models, generative AI, and agentic AI; and oversee data analysis informing strategic product decisions.

Lead the Developer Experience team to enhance integration processes, advocate for developers, and ensure a superior experience with Adyen's platform.

The Engineering Director for Developer Platform leads the Developer Experience domain to enhance API and integration processes, ensuring high-quality and simplicity for developers globally.

Leads the Insurance Product Configuration and Enrollment Platform Core, managing engineering managers and 20–30 engineers. Owns technical vision, distributed systems architecture, delivery commitments, operational excellence, testing strategy, partner implementations, and cross-team interfaces. Develops engineering leaders, manages hiring and vendors, and drives adoption of AI-augmented development tools and practices. Ensures scalable, secure, reliable platform services while balancing contractual delivery dates with long-term platform maintainability.

Lead global payroll and time engineering strategy and delivery for Oracle HCM and ADP ecosystems. Own platform lifecycle, integrations, controls, compliance, resiliency, vendor governance, and adoption of AI-enabled engineering. Manage multiple teams, align cross-functional stakeholders (HR, Finance, Tax, Treasury), and drive modernization of integrations, SDLC automation, observability, and incident readiness.

Lead and scale a Database Performance Engineering organization to drive performance, scalability, capacity planning, benchmarking, observability, and automation across database, OS, storage, and distributed application environments. Partner with product and infrastructure teams, run large-scale performance investigations and testing, establish practices and KPIs, and translate production insights into long-term architectural and operational improvements.

Lead and scale Flywire's B2B engineering across the Americas, define technology strategy and operating model, build internal engineering capacity, establish Austin as an engineering hub, drive AI-first initiatives, ensure platform reliability/security/scalability, partner cross-functionally, recruit and mentor senior technical talent, and represent B2B engineering at the executive level.

Lead and grow a high-velocity engineering team as a hands-on "player-coach," shipping production-ready code, incubating AI-native workflows, and ensuring spec-driven, secure, scalable architectures. Collaborate with product and stakeholders, audit AI-generated outputs, conduct design and code reviews, and bridge intent-to-execution to deliver next-generation card architecture solutions with minimal technical debt.

Lead two engineering teams owning real-time call delivery infrastructure and applied voice AI. Set technical roadmaps, manage and hire engineers, drive model-to-production work on EOU, VAD, AMD, STT accuracy and latency, collaborate with product and AI leadership, and unblock cross-functional challenges.

Leads the DTC Platform Engineering organization, overseeing cloud foundations, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, integrations, quality engineering, performance, security, developer tooling, and AI-enabled engineering platforms. Defines multi-year platform strategy, infrastructure and security standards, self-service capabilities, and delivery governance. Partners with product engineering, security, finance, and infrastructure teams while building and mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams focused on scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-efficient software delivery.

Lead multiple product-focused engineering teams to design, build, deploy, and modernize risk-management software using full-stack technologies, microservices, AWS, Big Data, and ML; mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and drive migration from monoliths to scalable services.

Lead platform engineering to design, build, and maintain infrastructure automation and IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Chef), CI/CD pipelines, secrets and artifact management; enable self-service provisioning across cloud and on-prem, implement drift detection/compliance, troubleshoot hybrid platform issues, and collaborate with cloud, security, SRE, and application teams.

Lead and scale Forward Deployed Engineering and Technical Support teams, owning customer technical outcomes from pre-sales through deployment. Define engagement models, SLAs/SLOs, on-call/escalation structures, tooling, and feedback loops into Product and Engineering. Partner cross-functionally to prioritize roadmap, improve self-service, and drive operational discipline.

Lead multiple software engineering components or enterprise focus areas, set strategic/tactical plans, guide subordinate managers, drive technology adoption and organizational change, manage finances and schedules, engage executive stakeholders, and ensure alignment of engineering activities with business goals while supporting national-security missions.

The role involves leading a Supplier Development Engineering team, developing supplier strategies, managing supplier performance, and ensuring quality compliance in manufacturing processes.

Directs hotel engineering and maintenance operations, including physical plant systems, preventative maintenance, life safety, budgets, service contracts, construction projects, compliance, and capital planning. Manages heat, power, water, equipment, vendors, payroll, expenses, and financial reporting. Leads engineering staff, supports fair employee practices, resolves guest concerns, communicates operational expectations, and ensures licenses, permits, certifications, and property standards remain current.

Leads multiple software engineering teams focused on developer experience and AI tooling. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, partnering with product managers, improving engineering practices, designing and supporting full-stack solutions, and ensuring scalability, resilience, and availability. The role also leads AWS deployments, microservices modernization, Agile delivery, engineering intelligence initiatives, and adoption of emerging AI and developer productivity technologies.