Director, Engineering Excellence & Enablement

What you'll do

Engineering Strategy & Organizational Enablement

• Partner with the VP of Engineering to translate business and product strategy into engineering capabilities, operating models, and execution plans.
• Develop and evolve the engineering operating system, including planning processes, governance, decision-making frameworks, and organizational rhythms.
• Identify capability gaps and recommend investments in people, processes, tooling, and organizational structure.

Engineering Excellence

• Define and drive engineering excellence initiatives focused on developer productivity, quality, reliability, operational maturity, and continuous improvement.
• Establish engineering effectiveness metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into organizational health, delivery performance, and engineering productivity.
• Champion adoption of modern engineering practices, standards, and continuous improvement methodologies.

Operational Cadence & Execution

• Establish and facilitate consistent engineering operating cadences including strategic planning, quarterly planning, roadmap reviews, engineering leadership meetings, business reviews, and operational retrospectives/after-action reviews.
• Drive accountability for execution across engineering leadership while identifying and resolving organizational bottlenecks.
• Improve planning accuracy, prioritization, dependency management, and execution predictability.

Enterprise Engineering Initiatives

• Lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives that span multiple teams and organizations.
• Drive strategic programs such as AI enablement, developer experience improvements, technical governance, and organizational scaling initiatives.
• Coordinate executive communications, status reporting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement for enterprise programs.

Organizational Effectiveness

• Partner with engineering leaders to improve organizational health, team effectiveness, and leadership maturity.
• Standardize engineering processes where appropriate while preserving team autonomy.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, continuous learning, and data-informed decision making.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering leadership, technical program management, engineering operations, or related experience.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale cross-functional initiatives in complex technology organizations.
• Experience establishing engineering operating models, governance, planning processes, and execution frameworks.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering organizations, Agile development, DevOps, and engineering metrics in the Aerospace & Defense industry.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders without relying on direct authority.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, organizational, and executive presentation skills.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using data to drive organizational improvements.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience partnering directly with VP or C-level technology executives.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth or transformation.
• Familiarity with developer productivity and organizational effectiveness measurement.