Seeking a Senior Director R&D to lead a distributed engineering team and oversee multiple project streams for a cloud-based SaaS platform. The ideal candidate has strong technical depth, team leadership, and project orchestration skills. They will partner with the VP of Product and VP of Engineering to drive high-quality, on-time delivery across complex initiatives.
Requirements
- Lead and mentor a geographically distributed development team
- Manage multiple concurrent project streams
- Conduct regular stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning sessions
- Identify resource gaps or friction points early
- Own technical delivery from concept through execution
- Map technical dependencies, risks, and integration points across teams and services
- Collaborate with Product Management to transform business requirements into actionable technical specifications
- Provide clear, consistent updates to executive stakeholders
- Establish development standards, deployment processes, and best practices
- Serve as a hands-on technical leader capable of guiding design decisions
- Work extensively with Azure cloud services
- Contribute to and oversee development in C# and.NET
- Design and guide implementation of distributed systems
- Collaborate closely with DevOps for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-based deployment automation
- Troubleshoot complex production issues
- Proven track record leading distributed development teams
- Strong project coordination abilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Deep expertise in Azure cloud services
- Strong proficiency in C#,.NET, RESTful APIs, asynchronous programming, and related modern development patterns
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and cloud deployment automation
- Experience designing, troubleshooting, and maintaining distributed systems or SaaS applications
- Experience in high-throughput or data movement systems (ETL, data pipelines, or cloud resource synchronization)
- Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments
- Background in Agile/Scrum leadership
- Prior experience in environments with mixed onshore/offshore team composition
- Proactive communicator
- Talent for simplifying complexity
- High emotional intelligence
- Strong situational awareness
- Bias toward action and ownership
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Benefits package
- Opportunity to lead a modern, cloud-forward engineering team
- Culture that values ownership, transparency, and professional growth
