Sr. Director, Software Engineering, Digital Research & CMC Development

Position: Sr. Director, Software Engineering, Digital for Research & CMC Development

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the software engineering organization supporting Research and CMC Development. Reporting to the Head of Digital for Research and CMC Development (D4RT), this leader will establish clear engineering standards and operating rhythms, drive accountability and predictable execution, and build a high-performing organization capable of delivering reliable, scalable digital solutions that advance scientific research and development.

This leader will oversee full-stack application and integration engineering capabilities, leading and developing engineering leaders and senior technical contributors while strengthening engineering practices across the organization. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering experience with strong operational and people leadership. They bring the technical credibility to effectively lead senior engineers, evaluate system-level tradeoffs, and develop exceptional technical talent. While this is not a hands-on development role, this leader will bring strong systems thinking, understand the broader implications of technical decisions, and empower technical leads and other senior contributors to provide technical leadership across the organization.

The successful candidate will also have significant experience within biotechnology or biopharmaceutical organizations and a strong understanding of scientific Research and CMC Development environments. They will understand the scientific context, workflows, ways of working, and cross-functional dynamics required to translate complex scientific needs into effective digital and software strategies.

Here’s What You’ll Do Software Engineering Operations

Lead the evolution of the software engineering organization, establishing the leadership practices, operating model, engineering standards, and talent capabilities needed to support a growing Research and CMC Development digital portfolio.

Build and develop strong engineering leaders and senior technical contributors

Enabling them to grow talent, delegate effectively, establish clear ownership, and operate at the right level of technical and organizational leadership.

Establish clear and consistent expectations for performance and career progression across the engineering organization

Creating transparency around what strong performance looks like and how individuals grow in scope and impact.

Establish effective engineering operating rhythms and portfolio management practices that provide visibility into priorities, capacity, resource allocation, commitments, delivery health, dependencies, and risks, enabling informed tradeoffs when demand exceeds capacity.

Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and ownership in which teams deliver against commitments, leaders address systemic barriers to delivery and meaningful improvements to engineering practices and ways of working.

Application & Integration Engineering

Provide senior oversight across custom full-stack application and integration engineering capacities supporting scientific and operational workflows. Guide engineering strategy across commercial SaaS platforms, custom applications, scientific systems, enterprise platforms, and data products, promoting reusable APIs, services, integration patterns, and shared capabilities. Drive simplification and sustainability across the technology landscape, ensuring applications and integrations leverage sound cloud architecture and engineering practices and are designed with reliability, observability, security, scalability, and operational support appropriate to their use.

Partner

with Product Management

Partner with Product Management to maintain alignment across product priorities, planned initiatives, engineering capacity, and existing commitments, enabling effective resource planning and informed portfolio tradeoffs. Bring an engineering and systems perspective into product planning, helping teams understand how proposed solutions fit within the broader digital ecosystem and when software engineering capabilities are needed. Develop engineering leaders who can partner effectively with Product…