Director, Software Engineering

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Full Time Full-Time Remote, US

7 days ago Requisition ID: 1085

Salary Range: $140,000.00 To 180,000.00 Annually

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a global, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., working to improve environmental sustainability, human health, and resilience in the built environment through its programs and rating systems including LEED. Today, people in over 150 countries and territories live, work, and learn in LEED certified buildings, communities, and cities that protect health, climate, and natural resources, and enhance quality of life.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Strategy Execution – Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes
  • Develop short- and long-term plans to ensure development work meets the needs of the organization
  • Communicate to CIO and other internal partners on the development team’s vision, strategy, metrics, annual goals, and success factors
• Building and Leading a Successful Team – Uses an effective interpersonal style to build a cohesive team; inspires and sustains team cohesion and engagement by focusing the team on its mission and importance to the organization
  • Find and retain the best development talent by implementing a systematic and unbiased approach to finding and growing the team’s talent
  • Define SMART delivery goals in alignment with Functional Leads and App Dev leads.
  • Partner with peers in other geographies and with the Area-level Region Market Unit Lead to help establish the strategy and operations plans
  • Share experiences, insights, and best practices to optimize the performance and productivity of project teams across teams and ensure activities are aligned with business strategies and priorities
• Managing Application Development Team, Standards, Processes, and Tools – Works with direct reports to facilitate consistency of service delivery across client groups. Facilitates compliance with the standard set of application development tools and processes that will drive consistency and predictability throughout the SDLC for all client groups including:
  • Manage the day-to-day operations of the development teams to ensure a high level of quality and user satisfaction
  • Plan, design, communicate and manage development projects, including tracking and leading the application road maps, systems upgrades and replacements
  • SDLC standard tools and processes for agile development
  • Estimating standard tools and processes, incorporating flexibility for small and large projects
  • Deployment standard tools and processes
  • Monitors projects for adherence to defined application development processes.
  • Communicates to leaders, opportunities to create broader IT-related and corporate standards and policies where necessary
  • Communicates proactively on important application development policy changes that affect service provider and/or internal operations
  • With the CIO and Technology Team, develop and regularly test comprehensive Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans
  • Implement and administer critical security controls (tools and processes)
  • Develop and manage detailed budgets for capital and operational expenses related to development efforts. Actively manage costs to ensure budget adherence and to optimize costs
  • Monitor and appropriately manage security and system alerts
  • Ensure regulatory and audit compliance throughout the development life cycle
  • Ensure project-related resourcing is effectively articulated and monitor project work to identify and address changes to project scopes and/or resource requirements in a timely manner
• Driving for Results – Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively solves problems and delivers results
• Customer Relationships – Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with the company’s service standards
• Global Mindset – Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential
• Strategic Partnerships - Develops collaborative productive relationships with other technical teams, fellow employees and business partners by:
  • Making them feel valued, appreciated, and included
  • Building a supporting development strategy and roadmap
  • Exploring partnership opportunities with other people in and outside the organization
  • Influencing and leveraging corporate and shared services and discipline leaders (e.g., HR, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Revenue Management) to achieve objectives
  • Maintaining effective external relations with government, business and industry in respective countries
• Bridging locations, disciplines, and the corporate office to ensure needed resources are received and corporate strategies are understood and executed

Education & Experience Requirements:

• 9-12+ years of experience in software engineering
• 7+ years of experience with enterprise architecture, software architecture, or design patterns, and Agile practices
• 7+ years of experience in people management
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience
• Leader of a large software development team
• One or more certifications in areas that support operations at USGBC (One or more certifications in areas that support operations at USGBC)
• Proficiency in managing relationships with off-shore partners, ensuring effective communication and alignment
• Expert cloud solutions and applications architect in AWS, including cloud-native design patterns, microservices, event-driven architecture, concurrency, and event storming
• Experience with DevOps tools and techniques
• Experience implementing OAuth2 and REST APIs
• Demonstrated track record that includes:
  • working closely with Finance departments, ensuring alignment on financial processes, tax compliance, and currency conversions.
  • leading medium- to large-scale initiatives and business transformations
  • successfully managing significant system upgrades and replacements, with minimum disruption
  • maintaining high standards for security and business continuity
  • selecting vendors and managing them using performance data
  • collaborating with upper management and other IT and business teams
  • setting and meeting a budget for the department
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences
• Self-directed with a strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making, quality of work, consistent delivery of superior services and products
• Focused on customer service and obsessed with quality
• Excellent skills in problem-solving and time management; high attention to detail

Details:

• Full Time, permanent, salaried, benefits-eligible, exempt status
• Location: 2101 L Street NW, Washington, DC or remote 
• Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm EST, 40 hours per week, including occasional evenings
• Travel – upon request and approval
• USGBC is an equal opportunity employer

Employees work for an established mission-based and member-driven nonprofit organization with a compelling vision, non-profit competitive compensation commensurate with experience and skill level, generous benefits package, 401k matching and comprehensive health insurance.

The headquarters office is a LEED Platinum commercial interior space in a LEED certified building in the LEED Platinum certified central business district in the first LEED Platinum certified city, Washington, DC. The office serves as an example for green design and construction products and practices. It is close to public transportation and incorporates many healthy and environmentally friendly features.