Director, Software Engineering (Technical Delivery)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Lead the engineering & architecture for resilient cloud-native, data-driven solutions with cutting edge technologies to meet the needs of our organization, users, and internal strategic partners.
- Lead strategy and operational delivery of business-critical platforms and services.
- Create new processes and structures to help drive delivery and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to construct a product delivery strategy, reasonable roadmaps, and timelines.
- Build a highly available, scalable platform with the customer at the center.
- Understand design, architecture, and code across multiple technologies and provide technical guidance to team members.
- Leads and directs the work of other employees and has responsibility for personnel actions including; hiring, performance management, and termination.

Supervision is often provided through a team of subordinate managers.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Delivery Leadership

- Own end-to-end delivery for large, complex, multi-team initiatives across the full SDLC.

- Coordinate and manage technical delivery across matrixed systems analysis, software and data engineering, testing (QE/UAT), ensuring alignment to program goals.

- Establish and maintain integrated delivery plans, release plans, and dependency maps across product, engineering, testing

- Ensure alignment between scope, schedule, cost, and technical feasibility.

Program & Execution Management

- Lead delivery execution across multiple workstreams, vendors, and platforms.

- Act as a trusted delivery advisor to senior Business, Product, Technology, PMO, and Operations leaders.

- Represent Maximus on client status calls and provide input to client facing contract deliverables.

- Provide clear, transparent communication on delivery status, risks, tradeoffs, and outcomes.

- Manage scrum teams and distributed delivery teams across programs, ensuring clear ownership, execution discipline, and accountability.

- Proactively identify, manage, and escalate delivery risks, dependencies, and constraints across teams.

- Coordinate release planning, cutover, and release execution across environments and delivery teams.

- Manage resource allocation, and financial tracking in partnership with PMO and Finance.

- Drive resource planning and capacity management across onshore and offshore teams.

- Coordinate change requests and scope adjustments, ensuring impacts to cost, schedule, quality, and operations are clearly evaluated.

- Provide disciplined execution tracking, milestones, and delivery of health reporting.

Engineering Quality, Testing & Predictability

- Partner with Architecture, Engineering, QE, and UAT leaders to ensure solutions are technically sound, testable, scalable, and supportable.

- Coordinate UAT and Quality Engineering readiness, including test strategy alignment, test data, environments, and business part...