Director of Engineering Job Kennesaw area,Georgia USA,Engineering

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions is part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. Every day, we reimagine how people move through a safer, more open world with ease. If you’ve ever walked through an automatic door, stayed in a hotel, or gone through passport control, you’ve probably used one of our products or services. We have operations in over 70 countries and more than 52,000 colleagues worldwide.

Director

of Engineering – Role

Reporting to the Senior Vice President & Head of Self-Storage, the Director of Engineering serves as the senior engineering leader responsible for translating product strategy into scalable, secure, and high‑performing technical solutions across the Self‑Storage portfolio. The role builds and leads a high‑performing Engineering organization, partners closely with Product Management, Cloud Operations, Technical Support, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance, and owns the “how we build, deliver, scale, and support” technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Technical Execution
- Lead the engineering organization across software, firmware, hardware, cloud platform, and technical architecture disciplines.
- Drive engineering execution and delivery across the full product development lifecycle.
- Ensure alignment between product roadmap priorities and engineering execution plans.
- Establish engineering operating rhythms, delivery accountability, and execution discipline across teams.
- Lead technical planning, resource prioritization, and delivery coordination across concurrent initiatives.
- Ensure engineering teams deliver scalable, secure, reliable, and commercially viable solutions.
- Partner closely with product management to align customer needs, business priorities, and technical execution.
Architecture, Platform Reliability & Scalability
- Establish and maintain scalable technical architecture standards across cloud, firmware, hardware, and connected platform ecosystems.
- Drive platform stability, reliability, performance, and operational scalability across customer‑facing systems.
- Partner with Cloud Operations and Technical Support teams to improve uptime, monitoring, observability, and incident response maturity.
- Ensure engineering decisions support long‑term maintainability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Lead technical debt prioritization and platform modernization initiatives.
- Support business continuity, cybersecurity readiness, and engineering risk mitigation efforts.
Product Development & Delivery Excellence
- Lead engineering execution for new product introduction, platform enhancements, and strategic innovation initiatives.
- Partner with product management to establish delivery priorities, release planning, and technical feasibility assessments.
- Ensure effective engineering participation in roadmap planning, estimation, and release readiness activities.
- Drive accountability for engineering milestones, quality standards, and release execution.
- Establish engineering best practices across development workflows, testing, documentation, and deployment activities.
- Improve development velocity, predictability, and release quality through disciplined engineering management.
Cross‑Functional Alignment & Organizational Partnership
- Collaborate closely with product management, technical support, cloud operations, supply chain, commercial, and customer success teams.
- Support cross‑functional prioritization decisions balancing customer impact, technical complexity, operational readiness, and business value.
- Partner with technical support teams to improve escalation management, root‑cause analysis, and customer issue resolution.
- Support operational readiness for product launches, deployments, and platform updates.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor across the business area.
Innovation, Transformation & Continuous Improvement
- Drive engineering innovation initiatives supporting next‑generation platform and ecosystem evolution.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering scalability, automation, tooling, and operational efficiency.
- Support integration planning and technical diligence activities related to acquisitions or strategic partnerships.
- Contribute to…