Senior Director, Group Delivery
Senior Director, Group Delivery
Rent-A-Center
Plano, TX
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Upbound Group
Senior Director, Group Delivery
Position Responsibilities:
Senior Director, Group Delivery
Position Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading all engineering efforts related to the value streams/digital factories including projects, teams, and deliverables.
- Responsible for collaborating with product management to determine requirements and roadmaps across the organization.
- Responsible for maintaining and understanding engineering capacity and demand across the organization.
- Responsible for managing employee performance and administrative leadership requirements. Responsible for collaboration with enterprise architecture and platform teams. Key driver to the Value Stream Steering Committees.
- Leads value stream engineering leaders and ensures alignment of dependencies across the value stream products to meet business needs.
- Partners with Product Management and Technical PMO director to ensure successful delivery of initiatives and coverage across key initiatives.
- Responsible for establishing KPIs for software development as well as delivering on OKRs.
- Responsible for driving team accountability and performance based on defined/expected KPIs.
- Define engineering standards and drive those best practices across the organization.
- Leverage metrics to drive continuous improvement efforts, engineering standards per our defined IT Governance standards.
- Understands big picture of all value streams and understand business architecture, reuse opportunities across Upbound.
- Foster innovation & collaboration across their teams.
- Estimation driving and planning, ensuring teams are providing sound estimates at annual, quarterly, and monthly planning while adapting their work plans to deliver according to priorities.
- Partner with QA to ensure high quality software delivery and ensure teams are effectively responding to issues in a timely manner.
- Overall responsible for engineering application delivery to meet organizational goals and objectives.
- Manage and allocate resources effectively to meet project deadlines and deliver high quality software solutions.
- Ensure adherence to industry best practices, standards, and regulatory requirements throughout the software engineering process.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and software engineering practices, and incorporate them into the development process as appropriate.
- Collaborate with other senior leaders to align software engineering efforts with overall business goals and objectives.
- Provide regular reports and updates to executive management on the progress, achievements, and challenges of the software engineering function, including financial performance and budget utilization.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
- Responsible for directing and controlling activities at the most senior level within the function.
- Staying current on new technologies and ensuring the CoE is delivering best in class technology in their respective area of ownership.
- Accountable for technology roadmap.
- Accountable for adoption of our agile operating model and delivery standards across their teams.
- Expert in software engineering (15+ years of software engineering & product development)
- Ability to understand and articulate big picture technology and architecture.
- Understanding of platform and service development
- Demonstrated experience building, leading, and delivering in complex technology environments.
- Ability to strategically drive digital transformation from an engineering perspective and guide teams through the adoption of new ways of working across the Upbound Organization.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering quality enterprise software development projects.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential, especially presentation and negotiation skills.
- 15+ years of demonstrated experience leading in an engineering or technology capacity.
- Leading and delivering complex systems.
- Strong EQ leader which is skilled in collaborating in a matrix environment
- Lead distributed teams across multiple time zones.
- Strategic visionary leader who can and bring teams together to execute on the vision.
- Demonstrates strong leadership skills by establishing clear goals, objectives and priorities that communicate the organization’s vision.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering or technology
- Understanding of quality assurance and security
- Experience in an agile environment.
- Proven track record balancing multiple complex cross-functional projects and processes with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up 15% as needed.
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Seniority level
Director -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Management and Manufacturing -
Industries
Retail
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