Senior Director, SRE & Cloud Engineering, Hybrid, Marlborough/Chelmsford, MA

This role oversees the strategy, design, development, and lifecycle management of complex systems software. This role guides large-scale engineering areas in building foundational platforms that support enterprise applications, ensuring architectural integrity, operational excellence, and long-term technology evolution.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides strategic leadership for multiple software engineering teams responsible for architecting, developing, and enhancing systemslevel software, including operating environments, databases, and core platform utilities.

• Shapes long-term technical direction, ensuring that system architectures meet business requirements for scalability, reliability, performance, and hardware compatibility.

• Oversees requirements discovery, feasibility assessments, and solution scoping for enterprise-wide systems software initiatives, translating organizational goals into engineering roadmaps.

• Ensures development teams follow strong engineering and coding practices, especially for low-level and systems programming across diverse hardware environments.

• Drives excellence in systems software testing, validation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance, promoting high-quality release practices and sustainable support models.

• Partners with product, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to align systems capabilities with operational and strategic needs.

• Builds and mentors high-performing engineering leadership, fostering an inclusive culture that emphasizes innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Manages organizational resources, budgets, and vendor/technology partnerships to support delivery of complex software programs.

• Monitors emerging technologies, industry trends, and hardware advancements, guiding adoption to maintain a modern and competitive platform environment.

o Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in field relevant to role (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree), advanced degree preferred. o Required Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience, 6+ years as a People Leader. o Extensive experience leading large-scale systems software engineering organizations, including architecture, development, testing, and deployment functions. o Deep technical expertise in systems programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Rust) and experience with operating systems, hardware integration, or platform engineering. o Proven ability to develop and execute strategic technology plans and deliver complex, multiyear programs. o Strong leadership capabilities with demonstrated success in managing and developing engineering leaders and senior technical talent. o Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across technical and nontechnical stakeholders. o Demonstrated commitment to engineering rigor, operational excellence, and sustainable delivery practices

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