Director, Software Engineering

About Pluribus Digital: Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy – part technologists, part change agents, and all heart.  We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

About the Role: We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to join our team that will report to the Chief Strategy Officer. This is a senior-level leadership position responsible for managing individual contributors and other managers while also contributing as needed as a practitioner on projects. You will play a crucial role in talent development, technical strategy, and cross-team collaboration while ensuring our teams deliver innovative and scalable software solutions using modern technologies and best practices.  As a highly technical person but not necessarily daily hands-on in the technical weeds, your experience connecting the dots between business needs, team needs, project needs, and technology needs will help you help others identify and mitigate risks and provide solutions.  

What you will do:

• Lead and support a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the Software Engineering capability.
• Establish and track OKRs and KPIs to measure success in Software Engineering initiatives across projects.
• Act as a fractionally billable practitioner on one or more projects, staying connected to hands-on software engineering challenges.
• Ensure technical excellence and adoption of best practices across software engineering programs.
• Support technical solutioning, proposal development, and market research efforts that require software engineering support.
• Oversee hiring, succession planning, and staffing strategy, working closely with the VP of Digital Solutions and the Talent team.
• Drive talent development through regular meetings, training, and mentorship opportunities.
• Manage bench time utilization, ensuring career growth opportunities for team members.
• Collaborate with other Capability Leads to ensure high-level cross-capability engagement.

What you will bring:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
• 10+ years of software development team leadership and people management, showing a progression of increased responsibilities over time.
• Experience developing success metrics and goals for software engineering teams that address the whole stack in multiple technologies (as appropriate to project and environment).
• Experience partnering with product, UX, and cloud engineering peers across teams and programs.
• Experience managing managers and growing talent through hiring, mentoring, and hands-on career development in alignment with a career model.
• Expertise in legacy software modernization and architecting applications for the cloud.
• Expertise in Agile & DevSecOps-based delivery.
• Expertise in technical writing, presentation writing, and proposal development.

• Experience delivering on public sector projects.
• Consulting experience in commercial or government environments.
• Certifications in Agile software development methodologies.
• Certifications in cloud or other modern technologies

Why Pluribus May Be a Fit for You

We are purpose driven. We support missions and products that serve the public good, and where our focused capabilities positively impact those mission outcomes. We bring a consultative approach to partner with our government customers and help them succeed as change makers.

Pluribus is a calm company. We are knowledge workers. People do their best work when they are not rushed by artificial urgency or drained by a culture of facetime and workaholism. By having confidence in our people, we can get more done at better quality. When real crunch time comes, we are not already stretched to the limit.

We are stronger because of the variety of skills and personal backgrounds of our team. We hold ourselves accountable and we publish our workforce statistics annually. 

Compensation and benefits:

Pluribus Digital offers a competitive salary that is determined at the time of offer. Compensation will be based on experience and qualifications, with salary ranges aligned accordingly. If a candidate is a strong fit at a more junior or senior level to what is outlined here, we will assess them accordingly and apply the appropriate salary range during the hiring process. The range for this specific role is from $165,000 to $190,000 depending on experience. Salary is augmented with opportunity to earn annual bonus and medical/dental/vision benefits, PTO, company paid life insurance and a generous 401k match program. Details on benefits can be found here: https://pluribusdigital.com/content/join/benefits.