Director, Engineering

So, what’s the role all about? 

We are looking for a strong experienced leader who is passionate about building state-of-the-art products in the on-prem and cloud environments. Director of Engineering to lead several engineering teams in Israel. The Director of Engineering plans and directs all aspects of engineering activities within the organization and manages a team of managers, architects, and quality experts. This leader will also work with stakeholders and peers from Project management, Product, Customer Support, Professional Services, and Engineering leaders in US, Pune & Israel. The director of engineering plays a crucial foundation of Actimize leadership. In his role, the director overlooks all engineering perspectives – development, architecture, quality, standards, and delivery.

As part of his role, the director will recruit, lead, and manage groups of software engineers, which design, develop, release, maintain, troubleshoot, and debug software applications. This position will provide leadership through mentoring, coaching, feedback, development goals, and performance management. The director will participate in product roadmap definitions, strategy, and plan releases, and lead the execution.

How will you make an impact? 

• Manage groups of R&D multidisciplinary scrum teams (15+ size).
•  People manager of Group Leaders, Architects, and quality experts.
• Responsible and overseeing your product area domain technology and integrations, including governance, standards, technical skills in place, and best practices.
• Build a long-term roadmap and short-term plans for product delivery. Work in close collaboration with respected Product Group(s)
• Strong relationship and team management with colleagues, customers, services, and products.
• Drive continuous improvement within your and dependent domains
• Responsible for growing people's careers within the organization
• Take over and manage cross-technical activities and projects

Have you got what it takes?

• 15+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a Product Development Mindset
• At least 8 years of experience in managing multiple SCRUM teams of software developers and 3 years of experience in managing through managers.
• Proven track record of managing the development of enterprise platforms-grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem
• Experience working in a global product software company for enterprise customers, in distributed geolocation teams.
• Experience in building and developing databases, relational and non, including graph DBs.
• Experience in product development backend and frontend, using Java, C#, C++, Angular, ViewJS, React, Python, or similar.
• Experience in building and deploying performant graph-based applications in production environments
• Experience with public cloud infrastructures and technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) - preferred, Google Cloud Engine or Azure.
• Experience developing and supporting on-prem, hosted, or multi-tenant software delivered as-a-service (SaaS).
• Excellent communication skills, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills
• Excellent People Management skills
• Natural leader. Leading by example
• Excellent interface management with peers, subordinates managers, and senior management
• Excellent English, ability to communicate fluently with customers and peers abroad
• Independent, flexible, autodidact
• Ability to perform under pressure and changing priorities
• Excellent interpersonal skills, highly motivated, assertive
• Result driven

BA/BSC degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field

What’s in it for you? 

Join an ever-growing, market-disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NICEr! 

Enjoy NICE-FLEX!  

At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere. 

Requisition ID:  6352

Reporting into: Director, Engineering, Actimize
Role Type: Manager

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