Director Enterprise Architecture - Remote

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The Director, Enterprise Engineering is responsible for managing the work product of our Enterprise agile development team. They will be responsible for solving challenging technical problems as well as driving the overall design, build, implementation, and ongoing support of corporate, non-consumer facing solutions including ERP and supply chain systems. As the development lead, the Director will ensure that the work product of the team is of high quality and adheres to the defined architecture best practices of the company.

They will take direction from the VP, Solutions Delivery for the projects and partner closely with enterprise and technical architects, the business, other development leads, as well their team members to ensure that they are driving quality and best practices for any proposed solutions the team is working on. The Director, Enterprise Engineering will help to break down the proposed implementation into chunks of work that can be executed by the team using agile methodology and will work closely with the team to timely resolve complex issues to help maximize productivity.

They will partner with our software architects, product owners, and business owners to help to ensure that the deliverables meet the customer and business objectives of a given project as well as set an example and provide guidance and mentoring to other engineers to ensure their success and career growth.

• Manage team members and partner with enterprise architects to develop feature and system designs, epics, and user stories, translating them into actionable items for yourself and other members. Work closely with the product owner and business liaison to understand all functional requirements and to ensure that the work product of the team meets the customer and business objectives of the project.
• Manage the work product of the software engineers on the agile team to ensure quality, velocity, and adherence to architectural designs and the software engineering standards of the company. Resolve technical issues on a timely basis to help ensure the continuous productivity of the team; in some cases, this will require you to lead design spikes in a project to investigate technically complex issues, identify optimal solutions, and then break these solutions into tasks that can be executed upon by the engineers.
• Oversee the day-to-day agile process, including running stand ups, grooming sessions, demos, and retrospectives, as well as managing resource allocations within the team and across projects and measuring velocity and quality of the work deliverable.
• Contribute valuable work-product as a software engineer on the agile development team, solving complex and challenging technical problems with little guidance or supervision. Serve as an engineering resource for software engineers on the team.
• Manage financial budgets,organize and drive large complex projects from definition through delivery.
• Collect complex information about systems and/or tasks and communicate clearly to align the team to efficiently execute.
• Evaluate technology options, work with architects to document clear options, and makes recommendations on paths forward. Be able to present these…