Director, Software Engineering - Data Engineering

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Director, Software Engineering

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 25% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $156,200.00 - $260,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Director, Software Engineering will develop and execute an engineering strategy which will be an enabler for the company to execute its operational and product strategy. The Director will identify technology opportunities for products, direct implementation of technology components of product strategy, and have overall responsibility for effectively delivering on needed results and objectives. The Director is responsible for creating and executing on a strategy to build the organization, evolve and maintain the culture, and refine processes necessary to sustain a high-quality team of software engineering professionals.

This role is a key leadership position for a release train and collaborates closely with other roles to lead the train effectively. This train is made up of a number of mixed onshore and offshore scrum teams. The Director, Software Engineering is expected to lead these teams ensuring that they have effective processes allowing them to deliver. Additionally, this role is expected to maintain our commitment to technical craft.

Additionally, this role is expected to devise a series of strategies covering data production, curation, governance and use throughout the enterprise. Data engineering technologies continue to evolve and we must evolve in order to support the demands of our business. These strategies must be developed in close collaboration with our architecture and central data science teams and should clearly establish a roadmap over the next 3 years that can be successfully navigated using a series of value added steps.

Your Role:

• Manages a set of software engineering teams and ensures responsibility for the engineering and architecture alignment of all solutions delivered within these teams.
• Partners closely with leaders across Product, UX, Architecture, Analytics, and Agile Delivery teams.
• Ensures that team organization, individual development, and communication are in line with the Cox Automotive vision. Builds scrum and leadership teams that perform at a high level. Fosters inter-team collaboration and productivity.
• Implements, measures and reports on the execution strategy defined for the team. Execution includes delivery of planned work that meets company standards with respect to quality, scalability, and reliability. Effectively communicates with key stakeholders when either scope or timeline of projects require modification.
• Oversees engineering processes and ability to generate new processes to meet needs. Works closely with senior leadership on continual process improvement and organizational change to support Agile values.
• Responsible for appropriately allocating teams to the highest value investments per business backlog and release planning. Formulate and communicate mitigation strategies for long running projects or projects where risk is high.
• Tracks and measures project work and programs to assess overall success. Responsible for ensuring the program scrum teams’ overall morale and productivity continue to improve.
• Manages career progression for team members to include hiring, performance reviews, salary decisions, mentoring, and coaching.
• Partners with leadership on higher level initiatives across Cox Automotive.
• Oversees budgeting for local team including headcount, hardware to support projects, staffing, facilities and tools for software development.
• Responsible for local engineering brand awareness strategy and implementation as well as responsible for continuing to evolve culture of technology team to drive Cox Automotive Technology operating principles.
   

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is recommended and a Master’s degree in related field is desired
• 10+ years relevant experience with at least 5 years leadership experience in a software development organization, ideally in an Agile environment
• Prior career experience holding Data Engineer or Software Engineer roles
• Proven ability to lead and advance software teams
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing product delivery best practices
• Experience with Agile principles and delivery approaches
• Effective verbal and written communicator
• Background in data engineering in a high-growth company
• Exceptional and proven leadership skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience with high volume transactional databases
• Experience developing data science applications using platforms including Snowflake
• Experience developing a demonstrably successful data governance strategy in an enterprise setting
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience using data transformation tools including dbt
• Experience with data curation platforms including Collibra

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.

About Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.