Hybrid Director, Software Engineering

at Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

• Job title: Director, Software Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $160,400 - $188,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Plano, United States

About the role

• Director of Software Engineering leading technical vision and team collaboration for Pizza Hut's eCommerce platform. Building and managing solutions for commerce technologies and digital processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead team to develop solutions for digital ecommerce technologies, as well as systems that allow management of digital processes.
• Manage department budgets, invoices and allocations, timelines, inclusive of alignment to appropriate business initiative/capability.
• Partner with product owners, UX/UI designers, and other stakeholders to define epics and user stories, establish priorities, and ensure alignment with product roadmap and tech stack.
• Provide architectural and technical guidance to the team, ensuring codebase health through best practices in mobile development and web.
• Partner on resource allocation, technical direction, timelines with Director-level product managers and senior business leaders across Product teams, Data Governance team, Infrastructure, Infosec, to align, design, and deliver solutions that address business problems.
• Collaborate and drive decisions regarding development tools and programming languages.
• Lead multiple software engineering teams across spectrum of technologies. Nurture and hire well, manage performance, provide coaching, mentorship, and career development for your staff.
• Partner with Security team to ensure processes in place for the security of enterprise and customer data.
• Drive root-cause analysis and remediation for system errors and issues.
• Partner with stakeholders at Yum! and other brands to lead teams and deliver game-changing initiatives.
• Responsible for reporting team’s performance against goals, risks, and driving contingency planning.
• Provide recommendations to senior management with the strategic analysis of new and emerging features /initiatives to determine customer impacts and financial viability (ROI).
• Strong vendor partnership management – especially with software engineering & development companies, implementation partners, and our cloud providers.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or related Field.
• 10+ years leading and managing Software Engineering, architecture, or software development teams.
• 5+ years software engineering experience.
• In depth knowledge of systems, agile software development.
• Proven experience in a leadership capacity within an engineering or IT organization.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams or individuals in highly critical capacities and situations.
• Excellent influencing, relationship management, communication, and organizational skills including distilling broad strategy into well-structured strategic materials.