Director of Software Engineering

About Altura Altura, LLC is a technology-driven engineering services firm focused on improving energy, environmental, and financial performance across our clients’ organizations. Altura is not your typical software company. We are an innovative consulting subsidiary of one of the country’s most respected construction companies with deep expertise in deriving value from building analytics software. Our solutions scale from highly complex individual buildings to national real estate portfolios, leveraging core skills in software engineering, building systems and controls engineering, IT/OT, project implementation, data analytics, and financial analysis to provide major impact for our clients.

About the Role As the Director of Software Engineering at Altura, you will be operating with close connections to our customers and users; you will be a strategist and a doer; you will make tangible impacts on how buildings are built and operated across the country. If you are seeking stability over startup chaos and love owning the entire development stack, this is your place.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with dedicated people management skills to drive software engineering excellence. Working in close collaboration with product, cybersecurity and business leadership, you will translate strategic roadmaps into scalable technical solutions, relying on internal domain experts and trusted clients to define software needs. Crucially, this leader serves as a mentor and player-coach, actively managing our software team to maximize their potential, performance, and outcomes while directly contributing to the product.

We are seeking an innovative leader who is fully adapted to AI-driven development and is ready to transform how technology shapes building performance.

Key Responsibilities Team Leadership & Execution:
Act as a dedicated people manager and player-coach, fostering a high-retention culture of collaborative problem-solving and technical excellence. Lead by example by actively contributing to development work while maximizing individual potential and driving high-quality team outcomes.

Product Engineering Mindset &

Innovation: Champion the adoption of a Product Engineering mindset, mentoring developers to think holistically about the end-user experience and broader product strategy. Lead the integration of modern AI development tools to boost team velocity, automate routine coding tasks, and enhance overall engineering quality. Strategic Technical Leadership & Product Alignment:
Partner closely with Product leadership to translate product vision, strategy and market needs into a multi-year technical architecture roadmap. Ensure the platform's scalability, reliability, and maintainability directly support the company's strategic goals.

Software Platform & Integration Management:
Oversee the development of Altura's software platform, and suite of Altura Analytics applications and development environments. Partner with Information Technology & Cybersecurity leadership to ensure secure infrastructure, optimal deployment strategies, and robust maintenance of the platform and data analytics environments.

Data Architecture &

Innovation: Direct the architectural evolution of Altura's core data layer. Drive software architecture and tooling to integrate emerging technologies (AI/ML, IoT, advanced analytics) that transform how building performance consulting is delivered.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Partner with Analytics Solutions/Delivery and other Altura Service Directors, relying on their domain expertise to define technical requirements and harvest project-level innovations into organization-wide capabilities.

System Interoperability:
Ensure seamless technical integration…