Director Engineering Effectiveness*** Hybrid in Horsham, PA
$136,100–$252,800 year
HybridNew Jersey, United States or Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Lead the engineering effectiveness agenda across the organization by translating CTO priorities into operating rhythms, improvement plans, and measurable initiatives. Establish engineering scorecards and review cadences to improve visibility into delivery health, quality, execution risk, and effectiveness. Define common expectations and ways of working for small, durable delivery teams, including quality gates, delivery rhythms, and planning practices. Lead the AI Enablement function to transform engineering workflows through AI-assisted and agent-enabled practices, defining guardrails, standards, and benchmarks for safe adoption. Drive adoption of modern developer tooling and spec-driven engineering practices to improve speed, quality, and developer experience. Lead the Delivery Excellence function to improve planning quality, execution discipline, and delivery predictability across teams and portfolios. Improve test strategy, automation practices, and release readiness to increase release confidence and reduce escaped defects. Partner with engineering leaders across product, platform, infrastructure, security, and planning to improve cross-functional outcomes and support the CTO with strategic insights.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. citizen
- Public Trust security clearance
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, engineering leadership, engineering effectiveness, developer productivity, quality engineering, or related technology leadership roles
- Experience leading engineering teams or engineering leaders and driving improvement through data, metrics, and operating rhythms
- Demonstrated success improving engineering delivery, quality outcomes, and organizational effectiveness across multiple teams or portfolios
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including software delivery, quality engineering, DevOps, developer workflows, operational excellence, and the implications of AI-assisted and agent-enabled development
- Strong proficiency with AI-assisted and agent-enabled software development, with the ability to evaluate tools, workflows, and engineering implications with credibility
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams that have shipped AI-assisted or agent-enabled workflows into production, not just piloted or experimented with them
- Strong understanding of how AI is changing engineering productivity, quality, team practices, and operating models
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering improvement initiatives in a matrixed environment
- Strong ability to influence engineering leaders and drive adoption of better ways of working through credibility, collaboration, data, and practical execution
- Strong people leadership capability, including building and developing high-performing cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively across engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders
- Must be located near the Horsham, PA location for a Hybrid onsite schedule
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading delivery excellence, quality enablement, engineering effectiveness, developer productivity, or related cross-functional engineering functions
- Experience building or reshaping organizations to support engineering effectiveness and modern software delivery practices at scale
- Experience leading AI enablement, engineering productivity, or engineering transformation efforts in software engineering organizations
- Experience defining engineering practices, guardrails, or operating models for AI-assisted and agent-enabled development at scale
- Experience improving engineering workflows in multi-product, platform, or portfolio-based engineering organizations
- Experience partnering with CTOs and senior engineering leaders on strategic priorities and organizational improvement
- Demonstrated technical credibility with software engineering leaders and teams
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