Director of Software Engineering - DIREC011288-3563

Circana - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Software Engineering Director Architect at Circana is responsible for leading a team of engineers in the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions. This role emphasizes collaboration with global teams, mentoring engineers, and ensuring compliance with security standards. The position requires a strong focus on performance and scalability in software applications, leveraging big data analytics to drive client growth and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with global distributed teams.
• Independently design, code, unit test, and deliver testable user stories.
• Document solutions through diagrams and code comments with optimized code.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, including offshore teams.
• Maintain compliance with security standards.
• Engage with key stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Analyze issues in detail and provide multiple solution approaches to problems.
• Develop high-quality applications that meet performance and scalability standards in a multi-distributed platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• 8+ years of enterprise software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience in the Business Intelligence and Analytics industry.
• Extensive experience aligning data from disparate sources with varying granularity.
• Extensive experience in Linux or Unix OS or Big Data scripting languages (Python, Spark, PySpark, Scala); Databricks experience is a plus.
• Experience working with third-party job schedulers (Control-M, Airflow is a plus).
• Strong communication and leadership skills required.
• Agile Scrum experience required.
• Large-scale big data experience preferred.
• Retail industry experience preferred.
• Experience working with offshore and global distributed teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with Control-M or Airflow.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Continuous learning and growth opportunities
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Recognition and feedback culture