Cultura Technologies-posted 18 days ago
Full-time • Director
1-10 employees

ExtendAg is hiring a Director of Engineering Excellence to lead the transformation of our software engineering organization toward greater discipline, predictability, and scalability. This is a pivotal leadership role that will shape how we design, build, and deliver our products — ensuring our solutions are not only innovative, but also reliable, repeatable, and commercially aligned. The ideal candidate brings a balance of technical depth, leadership maturity, and process acumen. They are passionate about developing technical talent, modernizing SDLC practices, and turning customer-specific solutions into standardized, productized capabilities. This role will be instrumental in embedding engineering excellence across the organization by defining clear standards, implementing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. If you’re motivated by building high-performing teams, improving delivery discipline, and setting a new standard for software excellence in a rapidly evolving SaaS environment, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

  • Manage development velocity and product quality by aligning engineering efforts with customer project timelines and R&D priorities.
  • Establish and enforce robust QA processes to ensure quality and release readiness, particularly around customer-specific implementations.
  • Partner closely with Commercial leadership to ensure our engineering outcomes directly support customer value, business growth, and operational efficiency.
  • Serve as both a technical mentor and a change agent, driving initiatives that improve delivery predictability, code quality, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Define, document, and enforce engineering standards, architecture guidelines, and coding practices across all product lines.
  • Implement quality and compliance frameworks that balance agility with enterprise-grade reliability and security.
  • Establish metrics and dashboards to track engineering performance, velocity, and quality.
  • Lead continuous improvement of the software development life cycle (SDLC) to increase delivery predictability, reduce rework, and improve time-to-market.
  • Partner with Commercial leadership to align development priorities with roadmap commitments and release cadence.
  • Drive standardization and reuse through productization—converting bespoke or custom solutions into scalable, configurable modules.
  • Develop a technical excellence program to strengthen engineering capability across design, coding, testing, and DevOps.
  • Mentor technical leads and principal developers to foster a high-performance, learning-driven culture.
  • Define engineering career paths, competency frameworks, and professional development plans tied to business outcomes.
  • Implement project delivery frameworks that improve estimation accuracy, resource planning, and execution tracking.
  • Introduce maturity models and stage gates for requirements, design, and QA readiness to ensure delivery discipline.
  • Collaborate with PMO and Customer Success teams to ensure commitments are met and lessons learned are institutionalized.
  • Partner with Product, Customer Success, and Commercial teams to improve how engineering outcomes translate to customer value.
  • Participate in strategic initiatives such as AI enablement, platform modernization, and ecosystem integration.
  • Support leadership in setting quarterly engineering OKRs and transformation KPIs.
  • Strategic engineering leader with deep technical credibility and a proven track record of elevating software development organizations to higher levels of maturity, discipline, and predictability.
  • Blend hands-on understanding of modern software engineering with the leadership presence needed to influence teams, drive cross-functional alignment, and implement change at scale.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams (Professional Services, Development, QA, Support).
  • Strong knowledge of modern software development life cycle methodologies (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD).
  • Track record of driving operational efficiency, delivering on commitments, and hitting KPIs.
  • Ability to diagnose operational bottlenecks, design scalable solutions, and make data-driven decisions.
  • Experience leading teams through transformation (modernization, scaling, restructuring).
  • Clear communicator across leadership, technical teams, and customers.
  • Ability to balance technical execution with delivering customer value in enterprise/SaaS environment.
  • Skilled in building, mentoring, and retaining high-performing technical teams.
  • Exposure to re-platforming, cloud migrations, or tech-stack optimization to enable scalability.
  • Comfort with adopting AI/ML, automation, or emerging tools to streamline operations.
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