Director, Software Engineering (SDI)

What You Will Contribute To Altos 

Key Responsibilities

• Hire, lead and develop talented software engineers responsible for building complex scientific software deployed on cloud, on-prem, or desktop.
• Partner with scientific and lab operations leadership and key stakeholders to define software solutions requirements and deliver solutions that delight.
• Lead, inspire, coach, and mentor the team of developers and engineers while growing their technical skills.
• Lead development squads that will be accountable for architecture and design of scientific applications, modeling and simulation, and AI/ML applications. The solutions would cover the entire stack from UI to backend. Scalability, robustness and reliability are critical to these applications.
• Lead team to evaluate, engineer, develop and test automation solutions, and promote the value of automation.
• Manage the development and release of new software solutions to support internal teams, including code reviews, testing, deployment, and post-launch monitoring.
• Understand, drive, and use services and applications across both cloud and on-premises environments and act as mentor for other team members.
• Build best practices and foundations for software design, development and testing.
• Maintain security and compliance of all applications within the parameters set forth by our security team
• Develop and maintain a culture of innovation and operational efficiency in the team.
• Foster cross-functional team collaboration to ensure engineered solutions meet schedule, performance, resiliency, security, and operational efficiency criteria. Collaborate with scientists and users on global highly complex, scalable software solutions.
• Champion an inclusive and diverse global mindset to attract a diverse talent pool that includes effective coaching and development.
• Lead technical discussions with senior executives that drive decisions and implementations
• Partner to create, continuously improve and measure the success of the organizational strategy

Who You Are 

Required Skills

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• 5+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• Experience in managing remote/distributed teams across time zones
• Experience in the practice of Agile software engineering development
• Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
• Knowledge of emerging platforms, Linux, operating system principles, and programming best practices.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
• Experience developing scalable applications for life sciences and scientific research on the cloud.
• Experience in managing distributed software development and test teams.
• Experience building applications and services in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container based environments that can handle scale from small to very large / enterprise
• Strong programming and scripting fundamentals (PHP, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, Shell)
• Strong knowledge of Automated Performance and Regression/Functional Testing

Preferred Skills

• Flexibility, ability to think on your feet, and strong problem solving skills
• Demonstrated track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results
• Experience with serverless computing, enterprise-wide systems, and AWS products
• Experience working successfully with partner teams at remote locations
• Experience mentoring software engineers
• Strong problem solving skills – ability to assess a problem and determine an effective course of action with sustainable solution
• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management
• AWS or similar Cloud Certification

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