Director, Software Development
Bentley Systems
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the Development and QA teams to deliver highly available, scalable, and performant services and products driving continuous transformation to “Empowered teams” approach.
- Maintain a deep understanding of the domain and products, their underlying architecture in context of Bentley technology and iTwin architecture.
- Set and maintain a high bar for code quality and excellence in delivery with ownership of uptime.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve the performance of the engineering organization and drive the necessary structure, process, and system changes.
- Establish the cloud mindset, operating model, and technology throughout the organization ensuring successful transition for existing users.
- Make fact-based decisions driving product adoption and usage, including investments in development priorities, and controlling costs through proper architectural choices, with constant vigilance towards usage growth.
- Partner with Product Management, UX and all levels of leadership to ensure alignment towards strategy and successful delivery of commitments.
- Build strong relationships externally and internally, with all levels of leadership to ensure alignment and coordinated engagement to achieve company objectives.
- Continuously foster a world-class development organization through hiring, coaching & training.
- Engage with key customers and occasionally represent the company or department at external events.
- Strong leadership/management skills and experience managing globally diverse software development teams.
- Experience in world-class development standards like “Empowered and sustainable team”.
- Deep understanding of DevOps/SRE, and understand complex technical issues, including multi-cloud approach to delivering cloud services.
- Accountability for code quality, technical debt management and secure products with the ability to discern development lifecycle, technical debt management, cost ownership.
- Deep technical acumen, based on prior success leading software teams focused on industrial enterprises.
- Excellent presence and judgment. Demonstrate collaborative leadership with cross-functional partners and drive key strategic initiatives.
- Proactively seeks and adapts to new knowledge, trends, and solutions to improve product performance, drive consistency at scale, and share knowledge with teams.
- Results-oriented with a keen sense of initiative, internal motivation, and an unrelenting focus to think and act strategically, lead and communicate effectively in all directions, and drive measurable results delivered on commitments.
- High degree of intellectual curiosity, honesty, and capability and able to know where and how to get the information required – knows what to ask and how to ask it.
- A coaching mindset, comfortable leading teams, and direct reports through influence and with a continuous learning approach.
- 10+ years in Software Development with experience in cloud native service development driving transformation from legacy onPrem products in a multi-region environment and team setup.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- A great Team and culture - please see our Recruitment Video.
- An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction.
- Competitive Salary and benefits.
- The opportunity to work within a global and diverse international team.
- A supportive and collaborative environment.
- Colleague Recognition Awards.