Sr. Director, Head of Engineering

Adstra

70d

About The Position

At Adstra we know great things happen when people come together with one shared goal. The future of data is happening at Adstra. Come join our growing team. We are currently seeking a Sr. Director, Head of Engineering to join our team of professionals. Candidates should be naturally curious, detail oriented, have a sharp analytical mind, proficient with a variety of cutting-edge toolsets, exhibit a penchant to drive efficiency through automation, and ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical people alike. The incumbent will provide strategic direction and overall leadership for Adstra’s Engineering team. This is a player/coach role and the incumbent will contribute significantly to meeting established deliverables each sprint through his/her own contributions in the data science, data engineering, and software & systems development tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 15+ years’ experience in engineering with progressive increases in management responsibility.
• 10+ years’ experience building and leading highly successful Engineering teams.
• Expertise in AI technologies, driving successful adoption across engineering, data infrastructure, and customer-facing products.
• Provide strategic direction and oversight for cloud-native SaaS solutions leveraging platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
• Guide teams in designing and optimizing data pipelines and storage solutions with Snowflake and Databricks, ensuring scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Drive best practices in cloud architecture, security, and compliance across multi-cloud environments.
• Lead teams working with modern programming languages and frameworks including Scala, Java, TypeScript/Node.js, and Bash, driving engineering best practices and code quality.
• Champion automation with CI/CD pipelines, dbt, Airflow, and Terraform, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and repeatability across environments.
• Establish standards for modern engineering practices including infrastructure-as-code, observability, and secure-by-design development.
• Evaluate and adopt AI and other emerging technologies to support business growth and maintain competitive advantage.

Nice To Haves

• Analytical and results driven with extreme attention to detail.
• Experience leveraging Data Science to build features for SaaS products.
• You are a self-starter, quick learner, problem-solver and someone who relishes challenges.
• Pride in your work, and high standards for yourself and the company you work for.
• Strong communication, analytical and collaborative problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to learn quickly, work independently, and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers into engineering managers and/or senior ICs, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and career development to build diverse, inclusive, and world-class engineering teams.
• Translate product strategy into actionable engineering priorities, ensuring alignment across product, sales, and technical teams.
• Drive operational excellence through strong agile practices, resource planning, and clear performance metrics (OKRs, KPIs, SLAs).
• Partner with Product teams to align UI/UX engineering priorities with user experience goals.
• Oversee front-end delivery practices, ensuring performance, accessibility, and scalability across SaaS applications.
• Ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, and scalable SaaS applications by upholding coding standards, architecture best practices, and quality controls.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to balance business goals with technical excellence, communicating progress and challenges effectively.
• Manage departmental budgets, headcount planning, and vendor relationships to optimize resources and support growth.
• Promote a positive, collaborative, and engaging team culture that encourages learning, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
• Set overall strategic direction for the Engineering team, assessing and selecting tools and methodologies to be used to accomplish our product’s development roadmap, strategy, scale and reliability.
• Interface on a regular basis with colleagues from other functions within Adstra, specifically Product, Sales, Delivery, and Account Management.
• Participate as a member of the Adstra Extended Leadership Team.
• Enable the use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and high complexity predictive modeling and fact-based management to drive data and identity solutions product creation.
• Provide support to Sales as a subject matter expert for high-revenue-potential engagements.
• Participate in new product development meetings to provide a technical viewpoint/perspective to Product that will enable them to understand what is possible and associated costs to execute on any particular new solution.
• Serve as the Scrum Master for the Engineering sprints.
• Effectively lead Engineering teams activities within a cross-functional Product Operating Model (POM) to solve customer needs and meeting business goals.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, LTD insurance.
• 401k with company match.
• Paid time off.
• Business casual dress.
• Summer hours.
• Customized training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees