Director Software Engineering

UKG is looking to hire a Director of Engineering to join our extremely talented HCM Engineering.

The Director of Engineering is responsible for the direct management of fast evolving product engineering teams, improvement in processes and service quality, strategic planning and management of resources.

Plays a critical role in enhancing and enabling business capabilities through technology innovation and collaboration with the business, manage and execute a development roadmap and possesses a true passion for technology that is readily apparent in their past experience and/or personal projects as well as is an expert with the technologies being used by the team. Balance this with building relationships with their business product owners to execute the development roadmap.

Drive innovation and manage product development teams within a fast paced, agile environment
Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
Recruit IT professionals with business and industry experience, and develop, reward and energize a competent, effective team within the technology organization. Identify and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
Manage and/or lead software development teams, obtaining necessary resources, acting as an escalation point and removing impediments to achieve goals and objectives
Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps
Collaborate with a wide variety to stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps
Enable integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, technical project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance
Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases

Qualification
Experience with cloud-based SaaS applications
Experience with Containerization Technologies
Experience with Integrating Internal or External enterprise systems via APIs, Events, or other integration implementations
6+ years of experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast paced , complex and dynamic product development environment
Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale enterprise applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies
Proven experience attracting, hiring, retaining and leading top engineering talent and high-performance product engineering teams (i.e. FTEs, not contractors).