Director of Software Engineering

at  Lionbridge

POSITION SUMMARY

Lionbridge is looking for a director of software engineering who has experience in the Linguistics Industry. We are integrating LLMs into our localization and content generation workflows and need a strong technical leader who can help us on this journey. We are looking for someone who has successfully built and delivered large scale distributed systems capable of handling millions of transactions per day. You must be comfortable managing teams and still be hands on when required.
The Director of Software Engineering is the technical visionary, architect, and software engineering manager that leads by example and is willing to help their teams out wherever they can. You are comfortable mentoring, continuously learning, coding and managing a globally diverse team.

• Assist, direct, and train team members and retain high value contributors
• Promote and facilitate collaboration within the team and the organization
• Establish performance goals for team members and track progress
• Consider the big picture and long-term goals when making architectural choices
• Pragmatic decision maker capable of designing and architecting a proper solution while avoiding over-engineering
• Exercise agile best practices when making design decisions and formulating implementation strategies
• Understand how best to apply Microsoft .NET and Azure technologies to solve problems
• Responsible for maintaining uptime of the production systems
• Establish best practices around DevOps within your team
• Manage and lead the teams in monitoring, managing, and maintaining the running operational systems
• Help prioritize the backlog, attend sprint planning and standups and set expectations to internal and external stakeholders
• Communicate delays and scope changes
• Conduct and facilitate tech design walkthroughs