Sr Director Software Engineering

Honeywell • Atlanta, GA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

You will report directly to VP, Engineering and you’ll work out of our Atlanta, GA location on a Hybrid work schedule. In this role, you will impact the company's ability to drive innovation, deliver high-quality products, and achieve business objectives. Your strategic leadership, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence will contribute to the company's success, reputation, and growth in the industry.

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading large-scale engineering organizations and driving transformation in complex enterprise environments.
• Deep technical leadership experience in modern software engineering practices, including cloud-native architectures, SRE, DevOps, and scalable platforms.
• Hands-on credibility: Has implemented key practices (multi-cloud, CI/CD, test automation, security-by-design) and can guide teams with confidence.
• Experience delivering data-driven and AI-enabled products; familiarity with integrating ML/AI into production systems.
• Strong architectural vision across distributed systems, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Expertise in security, compliance, and risk management for global-scale systems.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills: Able to influence executives, inspire teams, and align technology strategy with business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability and governance in large organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced technical foundation: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven leadership experience: Significant track record (typically 10+ years) leading large, distributed engineering teams and driving transformation in complex environments.
• Credibility through experience: Hands-on background in modern engineering practices (cloud-native, SRE, DevOps, test automation) with the ability to guide and mentor strong technical teams.
• Enterprise agility mindset: Ability to accelerate delivery and modernize processes in large organizations without compromising reliability or compliance.
• Influential leadership: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to align executives, business, product, and engineering toward shared outcomes.
• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement: Thrives on introducing new ideas, technologies, and practices that create measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Strategy & Execution: Set a unified strategy across SRE, platform, and application teams; define measurable outcomes (reliability, feature throughput, cost/performance) and run operating cadences (QBRs, scorecards, postmortems).
• Product & Customer-Centric Thinking: Aligns technical priorities with customer needs and understands the business impact of engineering decisions.
• Cloud, Infrastructure & FinOps: Lead cloud and hybrid architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP) for scalability and resilience; implement cost governance (FinOps), capacity planning, and performance optimization with transparent unit economics.
• SRE & Production Excellence: Establish SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, on-call practices, incident response, and blameless postmortems; mature observability (metrics/logs/traces/RUM) and progressive delivery (canary/blue‑green/feature flags).
• Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement: Build an Internal Developer Platform with paved roads (templates, guardrails, self‑service CI/CD, artifact management, secrets); treat shared services as products with clear SLAs and reliability targets.
• Application Development (Web + Data/AI): Guide architecture and delivery of secure, scalable web apps leveraging data platforms and ML/AI; integrate model lifecycle (feature stores, registries, monitoring for drift/bias) with safe rollouts.
• Enterprise Architecture & Integration: Define reference architectures and integration patterns (APIs, event‑driven, streaming, data pipelines) to enable interoperability; govern contracts, versioning, and change management.
• Quality Engineering & Test Automation: Champion automated testing strategies across unit, integration, performance, and security layers; implement frameworks for continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines and ensure high coverage.
• Security, Privacy & Compliance: Embed security‑by‑design across SDLC and enforce data governance and privacy (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA) with auditability and policy‑as‑code.
• Organization, Talent & Executive Leadership: Structure and scale distributed teams; establish career frameworks and succession planning; manage budgets and vendor partnerships; communicate strategy and outcomes to executives and external forums.

Benefits

• In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package.
• This package includes employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays.

What This Job Offers

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