Director, Software Development
About The Position
The Director of Software Development provides enterprise leadership for Bridgeway’s software engineering function, setting the vision, strategy, and operating model for the platforms and applications that support the Bridgeway family of companies and their customers. As a member of the technology leadership team, this role converts business strategy into a multi-year technology roadmap, governs a portfolio of high-impact initiatives, and ensures investments deliver measurable improvements in growth, customer experience, operational efficiency, security, and scalability. The Director leads leaders, builds organizational capability, and maintains executive accountability for talent, architecture, delivery, quality, financial stewardship, and production performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field required
- Typically 12 or more years of progressive software engineering experience, including substantial experience leading managers, senior technical leaders, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated success defining enterprise technology strategy and delivering a complex portfolio of business-critical products, platforms, and modernization initiatives.
- Proven experience scaling engineering organizations, developing leadership talent, building succession pipelines, and leading through significant organizational change.
- Strong command of modern application architecture, cloud platforms, systems integration, APIs, DevOps, secure software development, observability, and quality engineering.
- Experience governing enterprise architecture, technical debt, platform reliability, cybersecurity risk, and software lifecycle standards.
- Demonstrated financial acumen, including ownership of operating and capital budgets, workforce plans, vendor portfolios, forecasts, and investment cases.
- Ability to connect technology strategy and delivery decisions to revenue growth, customer value, operational performance, risk reduction, and return on investment.
- Exceptional executive communication, judgment, influence, and change-leadership skills, with the ability to build alignment across technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- master’s degree or equivalent advanced business or technology education preferred
- Experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, or another high-volume, transaction-intensive industry preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and manage a team of software developers
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including senior management, clients and internal departments
- Foster a positive and collaborative team environment
- Identify and address skills gaps within the team
- Participate in the planning, execution and delivery of software projects
- Coordinate with various departments to ensure alignment and effective communication
- Manage project risks and implement mitigation strategies
- Provide technical guidance and support to the development team
- Continuously improving software development processes and practices
- Implement and maintain development tools and methodologies
- Ensure quality assurance and testing processes are followed
- Monitor and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process
- Provide regular updates on project status, risks and issues
- Manage team workload and ensure balanced distribution of tasks
- Hire, onboard and train new team members as needed
- Manage code production deployments and post go-live technical support
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
