Associate Director, Software Engineering

About the Job:

The Associate Director, Software Engineering (Engineering Enablement) is responsible for establishing and evolving the technical foundation that enables engineering teams to deliver secure, compliant, reliable, and scalable software solutions efficiently.

This role operates across multiple engineering domains and serves as a strategic partner to Architecture, Security, Product Management, Validation, Quality, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering leadership. The position owns engineering-wide enablement capabilities including Dev Ops platforms, software development lifecycle (SDLC) tooling, developer productivity systems, architecture governance, platform engineering, cloud enablement, and secure software delivery practices.

The Associate Director provides technical leadership, establishes engineering standards and guardrails, drives adoption of modern software engineering practices, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement across FMI's software development organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineering Platform and Dev Ops Leadership
  • Define and execute the Engineering Enablement strategy aligned with FMI technology objectives
  • Own and oversee enterprise software engineering platforms, including CI/CD pipelines, source control systems, artifact repositories, testing platforms, deployment automation, release management, and observability tooling
  • Lead the evolution of platform engineering capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce delivery friction
  • Establish engineering standards for build, deployment, monitoring, observability, reliability, and operational excellence
  • Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, automation-first, and self-service practices across development teams
  • Define and track engineering effectiveness measures, including delivery speed, reliability, recovery, adoption, and developer experience indicators
• Architecture Governance and Technical Standards
  • Partner with Engineering leadership to establish architecture principles, engineering guardrails, and technology standards
  • Create and maintain reference architectures, reusable design patterns, paved-road solutions, and approved technology patterns
  • Participate in technical reviews to ensure solutions align with scalability, performance, reliability, maintainability, interoperability, and security objectives
  • Facilitate lightweight architecture review and exception processes for major business and technology initiatives
  • Guide teams in the appropriate adoption of cloud-native, event-driven, API-first, and service-oriented architectures
• SDLC, Quality, and Compliance Enablement
  • Own software delivery tooling supporting requirements management, traceability, design documentation, validation, testing, release management, evidence generation, and controlled deployment
  • Continuously improve software development lifecycle processes and associated tooling to reduce cycle time while maintaining quality and compliance
  • Ensure engineering platforms support applicable requirements within regulated environments
  • Drive standardization of engineering workflows, templates, automated quality gates, stage gates, and delivery controls
  • Partner with Quality and Regulatory stakeholders to streamline validation and compliance activities through automation and formalized evidence
• Security and Dev Sec Ops
  • Collaborate with Information Security teams to embed security practices throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Drive implementation and adoption of Dev Sec Ops  capabilities including static application security testing, dynamic application security testing, software composition analysis, container and infrastructure scanning, secrets management, software bill of materials generation, and vulnerability workflows
  • Establish…