Circana - Chicago, IL
posted 23 days ago
Full-time - Director
Chicago, IL
5,001-10,000 employees
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The Director of Software Engineering at Circana is responsible for leading a team of engineers in the development of high-quality applications that leverage big data and predictive analytics. This role emphasizes collaboration with global teams, mentoring engineers, and ensuring compliance with security standards. The position requires a strong focus on delivering scalable solutions that meet client needs while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and inclusivity within the team.
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 internal and external stakeholders.
- 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Large-scale big data experience preferred.
- Retail industry experience is preferred.
- Experience working with offshore and global distributed teams.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Continuous learning and growth opportunities
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
