Director of Engineering

Director of 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 over 52,000 colleagues worldwide.

Our expertise in customer journey mapping, innovation, and service design leads to the invention of new solutions that create value for our clients and exceptional experiences for their end users. We have a fantastic opportunity for a
** Director of Engineering.
**** Your Role in Keeping the Future in Safe Hands...
** Reporting to the Senior Vice President & Head of Self-Storage, this role 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 Director of Engineering will lead engineering execution across product development, architecture, platform reliability, engineering operations, technical standards, and delivery excellence while building a scalable engineering organization capable of supporting continued growth, innovation, and future acquisitions.

This role operates as the primary owner of “how we build, deliver, scale, and support” technology solutions across the business while partnering closely with Product Management, Cloud Operations, Technical Support, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance.
** Key Responsibilities in Your Role...
** The Director of Engineering is responsible for building and leading a high-performing Engineering organization focused on execution excellence, technical scalability, operational reliability, and innovation delivery.
** 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 leadership 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 (NPI), 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,…