Director, Software Engineering

If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The Director of Software Engineering is a key member of the executive team, responsible for inspiring and leading the engineering team in building the platform that delivers affordable, innovative education to over 100,000 enrolled students. This role will provide technical expertise, vision, and mentorship to guide the software engineering team. The Director will oversee multiple teams focused on designing, developing, delivering, and supporting applications that meet the University's needs. With a strong, solutions-oriented mindset, they will lead managers through the execution and delivery of ambitious improvements in the Ed Tech group. Additionally, they will serve as a mentor to other managers, a trusted resource for fellow directors, a cross-functional partner, and a leader in best practices for prioritization and project timelines. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Meets business needs by managing the activities of developers consistently delivering quality solutions on-time, within budget, and scope. * Works with internal customers to gather business processes and project requirements. * Actively drives the development life cycle from requirements analysis, feasibility estimates, design, code, documentation, testing, implementation, and support. * Develops project plans, resource planning, scheduling, and managing development timelines. * Develops and guides cross-functional software teams, implementing industry standard methodologies for efficient development processes. * Responsible for ensuring that design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of the software development team are conducted. * Supports change management process to manage software releases, application patching and changes to production configurations. * Manages multiple tasks and responsibilities in high-pressure environments; excelling at pinpointing and resolving problems in early project stages to avoid cost/time expenses. * Provides oversight and management of department expenses and budget planning. Knowledge, Skill and Abilities: * Strong people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, third parties and senior management * Ability to drive a culture of quality and personal accountability through development and delivery teams * Competent in the tools, processes and best practices of software engineering and software operations * Demonstrates commitment to quality through the ability to translate complex technical requirements into functional software using best practices * Expert in vendor contract management and management of distributed development teams and resources * Expert in project management methodologies, including Scrum * Experience in application architecture and making rational buy vs. build and... For full info follow application link. Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.