Software Engineering Director II

Truist • Atlanta, GA

20h • Onsite

About The Position

The Software Engineering Director II leads one or more software engineering teams responsible for delivering enterprise-grade automation and intelligent technology solutions supporting Wholesale Lending and Sales Enablement platforms. This role is accountable for building scalable, secure, and compliant solutions that improve operational efficiency, decisioning, and client experience through automation, artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI), and agentic AI patterns. The Director II addresses complex technical, operational, and risk challenges across multiple teams or platforms, while driving adoption of modern engineering practices, AI-enabled architectures, and automation frameworks that accelerate business outcomes. In an Agile environment, the Director II acts as an Agile champion, primarily responsible for delivering high quality working software and automating manual/reusable tasks, leveraging engineering practices to deliver business value, and overseeing software engineering and unit testing and supporting integration and functional testing. The differentiating factor between levels of SWE Director is scope, such as size of budget and headcount, and complexity of the business line and related technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and equivalent education and experience, which could include any combination of eight years of experience in IT software engineering, five years’ relevant business experience (i.e. making technical-related decisions on the business side), five years’ experience in project management, and at least two years of management experience
• Broad and in-depth knowledge of technology trends, competitive environment, regulatory requirements and trends, and IT strategies employed to continually meet the demands of clients and regulators
• Ability to translate enterprise level strategic planning information into software and data management needs, create business plans, and turn them into effective business solutions
• Executive level communications skills, including, strong negotiation/facilitation/presentation skills and experience negotiating with vendors for relevant products and services
• Ability to solve unique and highly complex technical, operational, and organizational problems
• Ability to lead and manage the performance of multiple teams against a set of financial and operational objectives
• Experience managing projects with enterprise-wide implications from conception through implementation

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience at a technology or product company, leading AI platform or applied ML development at scale.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise AI frameworks (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar).
• Demonstrated success establishing AI engineering standards, reusable frameworks, or AI Centers of Excellence.
• Experience delivering GenAI applications for customer engagement, operations, or risk functions in complex organizations.
• Industry leadership through publications, open-source contributions, or conference presentations.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience delivering and operating technology platforms within Wholesale Credit or Wholesale Lending domain.
• Experience with cloud-based AI platforms, automation frameworks, and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with responsible AI practices and enterprise model risk management.
• Extensive experience in software engineering leadership with accountability for large, complex delivery portfolios.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-scale automation and intelligent solutions.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-scale automation and intelligent solutions (AI, GenAI, and agentic AI concepts, including data dependencies) in regulated financial services environments.
• Proven ability to lead managers and senior engineers across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Direct the engineering and deployment of significant delivery projects in accordance with specified technical requirements, schedules and budgets, including Agile methodologies.
• Oversee the planning, design, engineering, testing and deployment of application projects in conjunction with a variety of resources, which may include Waterfall or Agile approaches.
• Develop departmental plans, including business, financial, production and/or organizational priorities based on IT and focuses on long-term operations planning and performance, and broader business objectives and priorities.
• Apply an in-depth understanding of systems engineering and administration and a basic understanding of other IT disciplines in guiding and coaching team members.
• Identify and resolve complex technical, operational, and organizational problems.
• Impact results by supporting the funding of projects, products, services, and/or technologies.
• Maintain appropriate Risk Profile through owning the first line of Risk defense, proactively identifying risks, and implementing the necessary mitigations where warranted. Partner effectively with 2nd line of defense, Auditor, and regulators to ensure Risk is identified and mitigated appropriately.
• May play lead role or technical consultant role in large or complex projects or initiatives.
• Has full management responsibilities for teammates: hiring, disciplinary, coaching, terminating, performance reviews.

Benefits

• Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.
• Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.
• Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees