Software Engineering Director, Distributed Development
Software Engineering Director, Distributed Development
Roberts Recruiting, LLC
Boston, MA
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- Take responsibility for and drive the roadmap for all existing and future fully-outsourced projects
- Understand the requirements, roadmap, and current capabilities for all existing outsourced projects
- Drive and take responsibility for all fully outsourced projects
- Create a software lifecycle process for transitioning external projects to internal ownership (for future transitions, as needed)
- Evaluate and build relationships with existing vendors
- Evaluate effectiveness of each vendor we currently use
- Assess the qualifications of contractors within existing vendors
- Build relationships with all vendor account managers and establish processes for adding and removing vendor resources
- Bridge all communication and ensure consistency between our Engineering and vendors
- Become liaison for all 3rd-party firms
- Establish procedures for vendor communication and affecting up-and-out procedures for contractors
- Ensure that all vendors follow our code guidelines
- Proactively evaluate, anticipate, and hire to satisfy engineering outsourcing needs
- Constantly evaluate outsourcing needs with Engineering leadership in order to stay ahead and avoid resourcing constraints on projects (for fully outsourced projects and to augment internal projects)
- Align our engineering outsourcing needs with vendor skillsets, developing a group of vendors to satisfy permanent and flex resourcing capacity
- Skilled engineering mentor
- Strong liaison skills – bridges the gap between Engineering and Product Management
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Driven to execute to make decisions in ambiguous environments
- Understands how to optimize and facilitate communication and collaboration for remote teams
- Proven negotiation and budget management skills
- Able to delegate work as needed; strong prioritization skills
- Proactive, even with shifting requirements and priorities
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment
- 5+ years management experience required (including hiring, promoting, and firing employees)
- Proven record of successfully leading distributed teams
- Experience managing multiple teams and products simultaneously
- Experience hiring consultants strongly preferred
- Experience working with and processing contracts
- Experience managing budgets and communicating trade-off decisions
- Previous experience working as a remote or contract developer preferred
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