Director, Software Engineering

Ametek
Mount Prospect, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 140K

Job location

Mount Prospect, United States of America

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Systems Engineering
Automation of Tests
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Computer Security
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Medical Software
Interoperability
Software Engineering
System Software
Enterprise Software Applications
External System Integrations

Job description

The Director of Software Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for driving the development and delivery of Rauland's enterprise and platform software solutions. This role leads multiple software engineering teams and plays a critical role in shaping technical strategy, driving execution excellence, and ensuring the delivery of reliable, secure, and scalable software in a regulated healthcare environment.

Reporting into the DVP of Engineering, the Director partners closely with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Validation & Verification, Cybersecurity, and Quality to translate business strategy into high-impact software outcomes. This is an opportunity to lead mission-critical platforms that serve as the backbone for nurse call, enterprise reporting, interoperability, and emerging SaaS and cloud-based solutions.

What You'll Do:

  • Provide strong people and technical leadership for multiple enterprise software engineering teams, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture and removing execution or organizational barriers.
  • Lead the planning, prioritization, and delivery of complex, regulated healthcare software initiatives, balancing scope, quality, timelines, and resources to achieve predictable release outcomes.
  • Own architectural execution aligned to system-level technical direction and product roadmaps, supporting scalable, secure, and sustainable enterprise and platform solutions.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Systems Engineering, V&V, Cybersecurity, Quality, Operations, and PMO to ensure integrated planning, release readiness, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.
  • Drive release excellence and operational rigor, including deployment readiness, quality standards, upgrade paths, and coordination across enterprise, server-side, and platform software.
  • Work closely with Support, QA, and Engineering teams to troubleshoot complex field issues, guide technical escalations, and prevent recurrence through root-cause and systemic improvements.
  • Establish and evolve DevOps and CI/CD practices, including automation, deployment tooling, and release governance to support reliability, scalability, and future SaaS/cloud offerings.
  • Develop and mentor engineering leaders and senior talent through coaching, performance management, succession planning, and career and technical leadership development.
  • Support interoperability and integration strategy by ensuring enterprise software aligns with standards-based healthcare interfaces, reporting, and internal/external system integrations.
  • Promote effective communication and customer engagement, enabling engineering teams to support customer-facing discussions and critical escalations as needed.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, or Software Engineering required (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
  • 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise software engineering, including leadership of multiple teams or engineering managers.
  • Demonstrated success delivering regulated products in medical, safety-critical, or industrial environments.
  • Strong working knowledge of Quality System Regulations (QSR) with proven partnership and collaboration with Quality Assurance and Validation & Verification (V&V) teams.
  • Experience with modern product development practices, including Agile and Lean methodologies, test automation, and DevOps / CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proven ability to lead and deliver a portfolio of concurrent software initiatives with predictable execution, quality, and release outcomes.
  • Demonstrated success improving estimation accuracy, planning rigor, and execution discipline across distributed or matrixed engineering teams.
  • Experience contributing to business and technology strategy and translating strategy into actionable, executable software plans.
  • Experience managing departmental budgets, capacity planning, and resource allocation in a complex engineering organization.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior cross-functional leaders and external partners.

Benefits & conditions

Employee Type: Salaried

Salary Minimum: $185,000

Salary Maximum: $200,000 +

Incentive: Yes

About the company

AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5 billion., AMETEK is committed to making a safer, sustainable, and more productive world a reality. We use differentiated technology solutions to solve our customers' most complex challenges. We employ 22,000 colleagues, in 35 countries, that are grounded by our core values: Ethics and Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Inclusion, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility. AMETEK is a component of the S&P 500. Visit https://www.ametek.com/careers for more information.

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