Executive Director of Software Engineering and Operations

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a Executive Director of Software Engineering and Operations that will be a hands-on technical delivery leader responsible for ensuring successful client implementations, solution adoption, and production readiness across complex software environments. This role requires practical fluency across the software stack, the ability to work directly with customers to explain technical implementations and resolve delivery concerns, and the discipline to coordinate internal teams around commitments, dependencies, risks, and client outcomes.

• Lead client delivery execution for complex software implementations, integrations, deployments, upgrades, and production readiness activities.
• Maintain hands-on fluency across the software stack to assess implementation feasibility, integration behavior, configuration impacts, environment dependencies, security considerations, deployment readiness, and operational risk.
• Translate technical implementation details into clear client-facing explanations, delivery impacts, risks, trade-offs, and timeline considerations.
• Engage directly with customers to explain implementation approach, clarify solution behavior, address technical concerns, manage escalations, and build confidence in delivery plans.
• Coordinate internal engineering, QA, architecture, Dev Ops, product, support, services, and program teams around client priorities, delivery dependencies, issue resolution, and go-live commitments.
• Drive delivery discipline through implementation planning, readiness reviews, technical risk management, issue tracking, release coordination, and transparent client status communication.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance during client delivery to validate implementation approach, troubleshoot blockers, evaluate integration risks, and ensure the solution can operate successfully in the client environment.
• Use delivery metrics, client feedback, defect trends, deployment outcomes, support data, and production readiness indicators to improve client delivery predictability and implementation quality.

• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss software architecture, application design, integration patterns, deployment pipelines, databases, infrastructure, security, observability, and production support at a practical technical depth.
• Proven experience communicating directly with customers, including explaining technical implementations, discussing trade-offs, handling escalations, and aligning client needs with delivery execution.
• Strong track record of coordinating cross-functional execution across engineering, QA, product, architecture, Dev Ops, operations, support, services, and program teams to meet client commitments.
• Ability to balance client delivery leadership with hands-on technical engagement when needed to assess risk, clarify implementation direction, resolve blockers, or support customer confidence.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to present clearly to customers, senior leadership, and technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of implementation delivery, Dev Ops practices, quality engineering, release coordination, operational support models, production readiness, and continuous improvement practices.

• Experience in customer-facing technology leadership roles supporting complex implementations, enterprise integrations, or mission-critical production systems.
• Experience supporting enterprise software implementations in platform, retail technology, payments, commerce, cloud, or similarly complex technology environments.
• Background in platform modernization, cloud migration, microservices,…