Associate Director, Lead Engineering Leader - PxE Talent

As an Associate Director, Lead Engineering Leader, you will help shape and communicate a strategic vision for modern software engineering. You will provide hands‑on leadership across multiple high‑impact products, ensuring our solutions are innovative, effective, and aligned with business goals. You will contribute to and execute a forward‑looking technology roadmap, driving simplification, scalability, and efficiency. Leveraging your deep expertise in software engineering—including application and data integration, modern frameworks, and diverse technologies—you will guide teams in delivering robust, high‑quality solutions.

As a role model and mentor, you will foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration. Your ability to inspire and develop engineering talent, while partnering with cross‑functional teams, will be essential to our ongoing success and the value we deliver to Deloitte's business.

Recruiting for this role ends on August 28, 2026.

Contribute to defining, communicating, and continuously refining a compelling engineering vision that translates business objectives into actionable strategies. Ensure engineering teams are aligned and engaged, collaborating closely with product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security teams. Leverage technical artifacts and feedback loops to illustrate and evolve the vision.

Champion the integrated engineering strategy and technology roadmap, ensuring organizational awareness of objectives, KPIs, maturity, and compliance. Promote a culture of reuse, quality, and speed to maximize outcomes. Actively engage and energize teams around the engineering vision and its alignment with business and technology goals.

Drive achievement of engineering KPIs, including system performance, scalability, security, and maintainability. Maintain and evolve engineering dashboards (planning, code quality, CI/CD, performance, security, operations). Contribute hands‑on to design and code, mentor engineers, and resolve technical challenges. Inspire teams to adopt new technologies and best practices, fostering a passion for engineering excellence.

Being an engineering expert, mentor and develop full‑stack engineering talent in modern practices such as frontend, microservices, cloud‑native design, AI/ML/GenAI, data engineering, Dev Sec Ops , and advanced deployment techniques like Blue‑Green, Canary to minimize down‑time, enabling A/B testing approaches. Lead by example through thought leadership‑speaking at conferences, publishing, R&D, or collaborating with academia. Cultivate a growth mindset and modern engineering behaviors across the team.

Embrace an iterative and incremental product development, favoring action, prioritizing rapid learning, and adaptation over extensive upfront planning. Apply leaning‑forward approach and empirical methods to navigate complexity, ensuring each iteration delivers value and aligns with customer and business needs.

Maintain a relentless focus on solving the most critical customer challenges. Align technical solutions with business outcomes, minimize unnecessary complexity, and drive teams toward high performance through continuous learning and collaborative execution.

Establish and evolve engineering standards, coding practices, and quality benchmarks to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring operational excellence and resilience.

Influence, persuade, and drive decision‑making processes. Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. Craft clear, structured arguments and technical trade‑offs, supported by evidence.

Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from team members to middle management to executives. Build collaborative and constructive relationships, co‑creating and driving momentum and value across…