Associate Director, Engineering (Applications & Platforms)

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and drive the technology roadmap in alignment with product and business priorities
• Provide architectural oversight to ensure systems are scalable, stable, and maintainable
• Align technology decisions with long-term platform and product evolution

End-to-End Delivery & Release Governance

• Own and oversee the end-to-end SDLC, with strong focus on release planning, coordination, and execution
• Establish and drive best practices across release management, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployment processes
• Ensure structured release cycles with clear milestones, dependencies tracking, and risk mitigation
• Monitor delivery health, proactively identifying bottlenecks, risks, and quality issues across teams
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery processes, tooling, and release standards

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and guide multiple engineering teams, including Engineering Managers and senior engineers
• Foster a culture of accountability, quality, and operational excellence
• Ensure teams are aligned to delivery commitments and engineering standards
• Support hiring and development of engineering talent

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Work closely with Product, Business, and leadership teams to align on delivery timelines and priorities
• Act as a key point of coordination for cross-team dependencies and release readiness
• Manage external vendors and partners to ensure alignment with delivery and release expectations
• Communicate release status, risks, and timelines clearly to stakeholders

Platform & Product Oversight

• Oversee platform and application readiness for releases, ensuring stability and performance
• Ensure seamless integration across systems and environments
• Balance priorities across multiple products while maintaining delivery commitments

Requirements

• Strong foundation in software engineering, with 10+ years of experience and prior hands-on development background
• Mandatory experience managing end-to-end SDLC with strong exposure to release management and delivery governance
• Demonstrated ability to drive release planning, coordination, and execution across multiple teams
• Solid understanding of modern engineering practices (CI/CD, automated testing, deployment pipelines)
• Experience in roadmap planning and delivery tracking in complex environments
• Strong technical knowledge across modern stacks (e.g., backend services, frontend frameworks, microservices, cloud platforms such as AWS)
• Experience working with vendors and managing cross-team dependencies
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, especially in driving alignment on delivery and releases