The College Board · 1 week ago
Senior Engineering Director
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Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership to the team (20%)
Sort through options for solutioning, leveraging your own technical expertise.
Provide guidance to team members on best practices and approaches based on deep knowledge of the product.
Act as an arbiter as needed for technical decisions.
Manage scope and actively work against developing technical debt.
Monitor and manage costs, working with internal resources to optimize the cost and performance of applications.
Approach every feature with a security-sensitive perspective.
Build and maintain a highly engaged, and high-performing team (40%)
Facilitate strong communication across the team leveraging work-management tools.
Cultivate norms that support strong communication, a positive working culture, and an engaged team.
Invest in high-value meetings and Agile ceremonies that support your team’s ability to focus and perform.
Actively cultivate the superpowers of team members and leverage these to develop a world-class product.
Support diversity and inclusion from the perspectives of demographics, skills, and experience.
Manage work culture to ensure the mission and operating principles of College Board are consistently recognized and utilized to promote a productive and fair work environment.
Interface with Business Partners (40%)
Develop deep understanding of the business needs your team serves to provide thought leadership and consistent messaging around the work of the team.
Develop strong working relationships with business partners to understand the nuances of the complex systems supported by your product.
Manage scope and workload, working with product owners to deliver the most valuable work first.
Qualification
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Required
Ideally 10 years’ experience in Agile software application development, applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of life-cycle activities to meet the requirements for highly secure, data-heavy applications.
Strong communication skills, customer relationship management skills and team building skills.
Visionary leadership with a track record of having your innovative ideas adopted by initially reluctant parties.
Knowledge of crossover/interdependencies between infrastructure tasks and development activities.
A developer's mindset, ideally hands-on experience developing with technologies such as AWS, React, TypeScript, CDK, and Open Search.
A passion for delivering high quality products.
Able to travel 3-5 times a year to our NYC or Reston, VA office.
You are authorized to work in the United States.
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Generous paid time off
Paid parental leave
Fertility benefits
Pet insurance
Tuition assistance
Retirement benefits
Company
The College Board
College Board is a not-for-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the Advanced Placement Program, the SAT, Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy, BigFuture, and more.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageRecent News
2024-04-10
2023-02-15
2022-01-26
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