About Ascendion:

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000 Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next. Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change-makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

Job Title: Engineering Director

• We are looking for someone who is a technical leader in Retail domain & who can build and manage development teams.
• They will manage a team of engineers across multiple projects and workstreams building and delivering projects for Ascendion.
• They should have solid design and architecture skills, should be able to work with the team to build the right architectures, manage customer conversations, discussions about project status, drive the team to achieve goals and deliverables and be able to roll up their sleeves and help their team out with a complex architectural or design issue.
• They will review code and set the engineering standards and drive team performance.
• Leadership, experience managing project teams, customer relationship management and architecture/roll up their sleeve attitude is important and critical for this role.

Qualifications:

• Customer stakeholder management with structured governance and feedback mechanism
• Scope adherence of all projects/ engagements under portfolio
• Establish engineering processes and governance in all projects
• 100% quality delivery. zero (Major/critical) bugs on production deployment (meet and exceeds SLA)
• Contribute in IP/ Accelerator Building (Idea shared Vs potential yield - process optimization, Time/Cost saving - measure by impact to the system)
• Implementation of automation in service delivery and engineering processes
• Clearly defined estimation frameworks. Assist presales activities within the portfolio
• Prepare effort estimation for all proposals under portfolio aligned to organization margin thresholds
• Identify opportunities with existing clients under portfolio to build pipeline with target revenue growth
• Revenue retention of all programs under scope with zero cost overruns
• Hire and manage workforce as needed to deliver the service to clients
• Resource performance management with well-defined KRA with timely feedback to the team
• Upskilling and cross skilling of resources as part of career progression.

Requirements:

• Master's/Bachelor's Degree in education
• Proven skills designing and developing simple solutions to complex customer challenges.
• 5 years’ experience in managing large complex program development
• Strong background and expertise in various platforms and technologies (AWS/Azure, Java/.net, C , Python, etc.)
• Played various roles of being technical Lead, Architect, and technology/engineering manager
• Experience leading and developing highly skilled software engineering teams
• Experience recruiting software engineers and forming high performing teams
• Driving efficiencies through innovative approaches in service delivery and software engineering processes
• customer stakeholder management experience
• Contract management and experience in revenue and P&L management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $160,0000– $200,000 annually. Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertain to the City/ State] [12-15 days of paid vacation time] [6-8 weeks of paid parental leave after a year of service] [9 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System] [Tuition Reimbursement Program]

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