Senior Director, Software Engineering

As the Senior Director, Software Engineering, you are the main point of contact for business and content operations leadership working closely with business, product, and content operations managers across multiple business unit domains. You will be the go-to person and subject matter expert for individual products and specific technologies.  Responsible for software delivery of multiple engineering teams typically consisting of 5+ engineers, you will drive the definition, architecture, agreement, and implementation of technology strategy.

About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in technology leadership with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive transformation, and influence stakeholders
• 10 + years of experience working as a software engineer developing commercial software 
• 10 + years of experience with common programming languages including Java and Python

It would be great if you also had...

• Master’s degree
• 6+ years of experience working with any of one the RDBMS (MySQL/SQL Server/Oracle/PostgreSQL)
• 6 + years of experience working with XML, HTML, XSLT, Unicode, DTDs, XML Schema, XQuery, XPath, PDF, TIFF and similar formats
• 5 + years in leading / managing software engineering teams
• 3 + years of experience working in Agile Development (Scrum)
• 3 + years of experience in a SaaS delivery model
• Experience with current JavaScript frameworks, particularly Angular)
• Experience in ETL Development tool (Talend or Pentaho)
• Experience with Big Data technologies (Databricks, Spark, EMR, Hive)
• Experience building Microservices, SOAP, REST Services (Java/NodeJS)
• Working experience in AWS Environment
• Working knowledge of Messaging (AMQ, JMS)
• Be able to implement and guide teams through test-based development
• Understanding of ML, NLP, including entity extraction, data mining, sentiment analysis, content summarization and other data science techniques desirable

What will you be doing in this role?

• Lead technical teams and focal point for development issues across a development-wide program
• Oversee the designs and may develop prototype/actual code
• Responsible for reviewing requirements, and the design, implementation, and unit testing for their teams
• Responsible for communicating accurately the status of ongoing work to stakeholders.  Will present status updates to project management and senior leaders
• Attend project planning sessions with Product Owners, Content Owners and Business Analysts to analyze requirements
• Ensure teams develop modules using disciplined processes, adhering to industry standards and best practice guidelines
• Ensure teams carry out unit and other testing, ensuring application meets needs of client and business
• Provide assistance in researching and adopting new and emerging technologies, evaluating new tools, technologies and platforms to be included in projects
• Identify ways to improve the operation of own area and to achieve efficiencies and results and assists in process improvement
• Use AI to improve the software development process. For example UX, Coding and QA areas.
• Lead and manage teams including supporting career development of teams’ members (objective setting, performance management, talent management, etc.) 

About the Team

You will be part of the Academic and Government segment supporting ingestion, enrichment, and delivery of content for products such as ProQuest, Web of Science and Incites.  We build UI workbenches for Content Operations enrichment as well as work with AI and Data Science team on automation of content processes.  Our newest projects use Java Spring boot, Angular, and Postgres DB.  We also have teams that support large scale data delivery using Databricks Scala, Hive and AWS EMR.  Our primary stakeholders are the application product managers and the content operations managers. We also collaborate with Web of Science Editorial team and Global Content Acquisition as well as other A&G product technology teams.  The projects range from small enhancements to multi team feature deliveries.  You will be managing 2-4 teams and their size ranges from 4 to 10 engineers.  The teams consist of our journal citation reference management team, large scale big data delivery team and our legacy content management system that supports all three business segments.

Hours of Work

• This is a full-time position, primarily working core business hours in your time zone, with flexibility to adjust to various global time zones as needed.  
• Hybrid position working in the office 2-3 days a week.
• Must live in commutable distance to our Philly, Alexandria or Ann Arbor offices

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