Sr Director of Software Engineering-HR Domain
On-siteJersey City, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end technology strategy and delivery across Global Benefits, Global Mobility, Business Travel, and Expatriate Payroll & Tax, managing the 125+ global benefits vendor ecosystem and driving the migration of U.S. pension from legacy PeopleSoft to modern cloud-native technologies. Deliver end-to-end integration and automation of benefits data into and out of payroll to enable touchless payroll, orchestrating cross-country, cross-regulation flows with strong controls and compliance-by-design. Lead responsible adoption of AI-enabled engineering, including agentic workflows and AI-assisted development, while establishing multi-department strategy for SDLC/TLM automation and release governance. Act as the primary interface with senior leaders to drive consensus across risk, regulatory, and modernization priorities, and lead, hire, and develop large cross-functional engineering teams.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
- 10+ years applied experience
- 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- Deep experience delivering technology across benefits, payroll, mobility, or HR domains in a large, highly regulated, global enterprise spanning the U.S. and multiple countries
- Hands-on and leadership-level expertise in software development with Java and Python on AWS, including serverless and cloud-native design patterns
- Strong full-stack capability, including modern front-end development (e.g., React, TypeScript) and API-first design using GraphQL and REST
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), Pipeline as Code, and automated CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), with automated security and controls embedded in pipelines
- Demonstrated experience building highly secure code using guardrails appropriate for a highly regulated industry
- Proven delivery of end-to-end integration and automation between vendor systems and payroll, plus experience migrating legacy platforms (e.g., PeopleSoft) to modern cloud with strong data integrity and controls
- Experience managing large vendor ecosystems—onboarding, application ownership, risk management, and performance tracking
- Experience leading large, cross-functional technology teams and influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations to deliver value at scale
- Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams
- Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and tool/function-calling backends to power agentic and conversational interfaces
- Experience managing agentic workflows and AI-assisted ("vibe coding") development with tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar—where approved
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and GitOps-based deployment on AWS
- Familiarity with Global Mobility platforms (e.g., Sirva) and expatriate payroll, business travel, and tax models (e.g., KPMG)
- Experience modernizing enterprise integrations (API-led and event-driven patterns, interface test automation, observability) and leading globally distributed teams
- Executive-level communication, including presenting to and influencing senior executives
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