Director, Product Engineering

About CBRE Data & Technology

CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. Our Data & Technology organization sits at the intersection of real estate expertise and digital innovation, building the platforms, data products, and AI capabilities that give CBRE and its clients a decisive competitive edge. We are transforming how CBRE operates by embedding engineering leadership directly into the business—accelerating delivery, raising architectural standards, and turning product vision into measurable client and revenue impact.

• This role provides accountable engineering leadership for a portfolio of high-impact, client-facing data products. It sits at the intersection of management and craft: you will lead and grow a team of engineers while remaining a credible, hands-on technical voice in every room that matters.

• You will own outcomes end-to-end—from architectural decisions and engineering quality to roadmap delivery and stakeholder confidence. You thrive in complexity, resolve ambiguity with clarity, and hold the line on engineering standards even when speed is the demand.

• This is not a role for someone who manages from a distance; it requires equal parts leadership and execution.

• Engineering Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of forward-deployed and product engineers, setting clear expectations and raising the collective technical bar.

• Own team delivery: plan sprints, manage capacity, remove blockers, and hold the team accountable to commitments without micromanaging execution.

• Make and defend architectural decisions—balancing technical quality, speed of delivery, and long-term platform scalability.

• Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and quality gates that apply consistently across all products in scope.

• Recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent; build a team culture grounded in ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement.

• Drive delivery of complex, multi-workstream data product programs from design through production—maintaining focus on client impact and business value.

• Partner daily with product managers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions and realistic delivery plans.

• Serve as the senior engineering voice in product planning and roadmap discussions, providing technical precision and honest assessments of scope and risk.

• Operate effectively in ambiguity—making high-quality decisions with incomplete information and adjusting course rapidly when context changes.

• Remain hands‑on where it matters: contributing to architecture, reviewing critical code, debugging hard problems, and leading by example on engineering craft.

• Build trusted relationships with product, business, and technology stakeholders across multiple lines of business.

• Translate complex technical constraints into plain business language; translate ambiguous business intent into precise engineering specifications.

• Accelerate cross‑functional decision‑making by surfacing trade‑offs clearly and resolving technical blockers before they become delivery risks.

• Lead compelling product reviews and demos that build stakeholder confidence, secure investment alignment, and communicate progress honestly.

• Set and enforce architectural direction across the product portfolio—ensuring consistency, reuse, and long‑term maintainability.

• Drive sound data modelling, ontology design, and data governance practices that produce trustworthy, scalable data products.

• Oversee integration of AI and ML capabilities—including LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and predictive analytics—into live production environments.

• Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure products are built on solid, secure, cloud‑native foundations.

• Establish reusable patterns, shared components, and documentation that accelerate delivery across current and future product investments.

• Elevate the technical baseline of the broader organization by coaching engineers, facilitating learning, and sharing…