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Cultura Technologies · 1 month ago

Director of Engineering Excellence

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

Cultura Technologies is seeking a Director of Engineering Excellence to lead the transformation of their software engineering organization. This pivotal leadership role focuses on enhancing design, build, and delivery processes to ensure innovative and reliable product solutions while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

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Responsibilities

Manage development velocity and product quality by aligning engineering efforts with customer project timelines and R&D priorities

Establish and enforce robust QA processes to ensure quality and release readiness, particularly around customer-specific implementations

Define, document, and enforce engineering standards, architecture guidelines, and coding practices across all product lines

Implement quality and compliance frameworks that balance agility with enterprise-grade reliability and security

Establish metrics and dashboards to track engineering performance, velocity, and quality

Lead continuous improvement of the software development life cycle (SDLC) to increase delivery predictability, reduce rework, and improve time-to-market

Partner with Commercial leadership to align development priorities with roadmap commitments and release cadence

Drive standardization and reuse through productization—converting bespoke or custom solutions into scalable, configurable modules

Develop a technical excellence program to strengthen engineering capability across design, coding, testing, and DevOps

Mentor technical leads and principal developers to foster a high-performance, learning-driven culture

Define engineering career paths, competency frameworks, and professional development plans tied to business outcomes

Implement project delivery frameworks that improve estimation accuracy, resource planning, and execution tracking

Introduce maturity models and stage gates for requirements, design, and QA readiness to ensure delivery discipline

Collaborate with PMO and Customer Success teams to ensure commitments are met and lessons learned are institutionalized

Partner with Product, Customer Success, and Commercial teams to improve how engineering outcomes translate to customer value

Participate in strategic initiatives such as AI enablement, platform modernization, and ecosystem integration

Support leadership in setting quarterly engineering OKRs and transformation KPIs

Qualification

Operational LeadershipSDLC MasteryAnalytical Problem SolvingChange ManagementCollaboration & CommunicationCustomer OrientationTalent DevelopmentTechnology ModernizationInnovation Orientation

Required

Proven Operational Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams (Professional Services, Development, QA, Support)

Process & SDLC Mastery: Strong knowledge of modern software development life cycle methodologies (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD)

Execution Discipline: Track record of driving operational efficiency, delivering on commitments, and hitting KPIs

Analytical Problem Solving: Ability to diagnose operational bottlenecks, design scalable solutions, and make data-driven decisions

Change Management: Experience leading teams through transformation (modernization, scaling, restructuring)

Collaboration & Communication: Clear communicator across leadership, technical teams, and customers

Customer Orientation: Ability to balance technical execution with delivering customer value in enterprise/SaaS environment

Talent Development: Skilled in building, mentoring, and retaining high-performing technical teams

Technology Modernization Experience: Exposure to re-platforming, cloud migrations, or tech-stack optimization to enable scalability

Innovation Orientation: Comfort with adopting AI/ML, automation, or emerging tools to streamline operations

Company

Cultura Technologies

They run their company with the AGRIS system

Founded in 2011

Alpharetta, Georgia, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.culturatech.com/

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