Director of Engineering Excellence and Standards

Director of Engineering Excellence and Standards Permanent Chicago, IL For more information, contact Ryan Sedwitz at Responsibilities:

• Hire and lead a team of Technical Program Managers to develop key cross functional guilds that create the most value in driving engineering excellence in terms of the speed, quality and value of the software we develop with our internal teams and 3 rd party partners
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create high-value roadmaps of technology improvements.
• Evangelize the program. Garner support of executives and partners throughout the organization.
• Champion efforts to drive continuous improvement in software delivery speed and quality.
• Be a critical participant in the growth of your team members. Help them to identify issues; find solutions; gain stakeholder support; become better business partners; and prepare them for bigger challenges.
• Be a practitioner and evangelist of Agile, DevOps and Test and Learn cultures.

• 10+ years of recent experience in technology change and program management at enterprise scale organizations.
• 10+ years of people management experience.
• Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives through trust, education and collaboration.
• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - ability to communicate complex issues to senior leadership.
• Knowledge of up-to-date, relevant best practices, solutions and vendors for the full ADLC.
• Ability to identify problems, provide solutions and lead solutions to reality.
• Ability to lead a team through transformation.
• Ability to grow talent and create leaders.