Honeywell · 2 hours ago
Sr Director Software Engineering- SRE
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expHoneywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. In this role, you will impact the company's ability to drive innovation, deliver high-quality products, and achieve business objectives through strategic leadership and technical expertise.
AerospaceElectronicsInformation TechnologyInnovation ManagementManufacturingService Industry
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Set a unified strategy across SRE, platform, and application teams; define measurable outcomes (reliability, feature throughput, cost/performance) and run operating cadences (QBRs, scorecards, postmortems)
Aligns technical priorities with customer needs and understands the business impact of engineering decisions
Lead cloud and hybrid architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP) for scalability and resilience; implement cost governance (FinOps), capacity planning, and performance optimization with transparent unit economics
Establish SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, on-call practices, incident response, and blameless postmortems; mature observability (metrics/logs/traces/RUM) and progressive delivery (canary/blue‑green/feature flags)
Build an Internal Developer Platform with paved roads (templates, guardrails, self‑service CI/CD, artifact management, secrets); treat shared services as products with clear SLAs and reliability targets
Guide architecture and delivery of secure, scalable web apps leveraging data platforms and ML/AI; integrate model lifecycle (feature stores, registries, monitoring for drift/bias) with safe rollouts
Define reference architectures and integration patterns (APIs, event‑driven, streaming, data pipelines) to enable interoperability; govern contracts, versioning, and change management
Champion automated testing strategies across unit, integration, performance, and security layers; implement frameworks for continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines and ensure high coverage
Embed security‑by‑design across SDLC and enforce data governance and privacy (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA) with auditability and policy‑as‑code
Structure and scale distributed teams; establish career frameworks and succession planning; manage budgets and vendor partnerships; communicate strategy and outcomes to executives and external forums
Qualification
Required
Proven track record of leading large-scale engineering organizations and driving transformation in complex enterprise environments
Deep technical leadership experience in modern software engineering practices, including cloud-native architectures, SRE, DevOps, and scalable platforms
Hands-on credibility: Has implemented key practices (multi-cloud, CI/CD, test automation, security-by-design) and can guide teams with confidence
Experience delivering data-driven and AI-enabled products; familiarity with integrating ML/AI into production systems
Strong architectural vision across distributed systems, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns
Expertise in security, compliance, and risk management for global-scale systems
Exceptional leadership and communication skills: Able to influence executives, inspire teams, and align technology strategy with business outcomes
Demonstrated ability to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability and governance in large organizations
Advanced technical foundation: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
Proven leadership experience: Significant track record (typically 10 or more years) leading large, distributed engineering teams and driving transformation in complex environments
Credibility through experience: Hands-on background in modern engineering practices (cloud-native, SRE, DevOps, test automation) with the ability to guide and mentor strong technical teams
Enterprise agility mindset: Ability to accelerate delivery and modernize processes in large organizations without compromising reliability or compliance
Influential leadership: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to align executives, business, product, and engineering toward shared outcomes
Passion for innovation and continuous improvement: Thrives on introducing new ideas, technologies, and practices that create measurable business impact
Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization
Benefits
Employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
401(k) match
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Accounts
EAP
Educational Assistance
Parental Leave
Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave)
12 Paid Holidays
Company
Honeywell
Honeywell is a technology and manufacturing company that produces products for the automation, aviation, and energy transition industries.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11.4M2009-10-27Grant· $11.4M
1985-09-27IPO
Leadership Team
Jim Masso
President & CEO - Honeywell Process Solutions
Vimal Kapur
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
2026-01-23
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