Sr. Director, Digital Platforms & Engineering

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a true hands-on development foundation.
• 5+ years leading software engineering teams, ideally while remaining technically credible and involved in driving efficiencies and automation
• Strong C# / Microsoft .NET background, including ASP.NET/.NET Core, REST APIs, Entity Framework, LINQ, and SQL Server.
• Experience specifically leading a small engineering team through a modernization effort while retaining critical legacy application knowledge.
• Proven experience modernizing business-critical or legacy applications without disrupting ongoing operations.
• Experience building or significantly improving an SDLC, including testing, release management, source control, code review, and engineering standards.
• Strong application architecture experience, including APIs, integrations, data modeling, dependency injection, and transaction management.
• Experience with Azure/cloud development and CI/CD, preferably Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Blob Storage, and Azure DevOps.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to balance business priorities, technical debt, support needs, and engineering capacity.

Job Description

This person will lead a 7-person software engineering team responsible for custom applications that support a large environmental / waste management services organization across internal operations, customer services, regulatory compliance, and field operations. They’ll balance keeping critical applications running with modernizing legacy technology, while building stronger SDLC, DevOps, testing, and release processes. They’ll work closely with business stakeholders to prioritize what should be built, fixed, or upgraded and stay technically involved across C#/.NET, Azure, APIs, integrations, and React. Ultimately, they’ll own the application roadmap and help move the organization from legacy systems toward a more modern, scalable technology environment.

The compensation for this role is an annual salary of $275k with equity / bonus potential.