Director of Product Engineering

Position Summary

Seeking a Director of Product Engineering to lead a core distributed systems development group. This is a hands-on leadership role, managing a team responsible for designing, building, and supporting mission-critical payment applications.

The role involves maintaining, enhancing, and modernizing distributed applications across Windows and Linux environments, with a strong focus on cloud transformation initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years in a leadership/management role
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices
• Hands-on experience with .NET and Java for mission-critical systems
• Solid database design and development experience
• Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Knowledge of project management processes, tools, and deliverables
• Experience tracking and reporting development metrics (capacity, productivity, quality, progress)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams across multiple applications
• Experience driving technology transformation, especially modernizing legacy .NET platforms
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices and tools (e.g., GitHub, Fortify)
• Experience with modern data engineering tools, practices, and frameworks
• Ability to contribute to and maintain enterprise application architecture

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in banking or financial services, especially payment systems (ACH, wire transfers)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and application migration
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, and DevOps practices
• Experience with data warehousing, reporting, and business intelligence systems
• Relevant certifications (e.g., MCP, MCSD) are a plus

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with infrastructure teams, delivery teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to drive application development and delivery
• Define and implement an effective engineering delivery model (resources, skills, processes)
• Ensure on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery of software solutions
• Oversee resource planning and team management
• Establish and enforce best practices in application development and engineering methodologies
• Provide leadership for backend development, testing support, and production issue resolution
• Manage application deployments, patching, and release cycles
• Support and coordinate unit and component testing activities
• Apply strong understanding of information processing principles and enterprise IT environments
• Ensure adherence to data privacy, compliance, and regulatory standards
• Oversee application and infrastructure lifecycle management