# Senior Director, Software Engineering

**Company:** [ZoomInfo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoominfo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $224k – $352k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, nestjs, Kafka, Temporal, google cloud workflows, Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Snowflake, APIs, Webhooks, Distributed Systems, Data Quality
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Leads approximately 40 engineers and contractors across integrations, workflow orchestration, and data management. The role sets platform strategy, guides distributed-systems architecture, and develops managers while requiring 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Strategic Leadership & Team Development
- Lead and develop three experienced Managers and their teams, comprising approximately 40 engineers and contractors across Integrations, Workflows and Orchestration, and Data Management.
- Set the multi-quarter roadmap across the three pillars, balancing connector and workflow capacity, platform reliability, data quality, and compliance priorities.
- Build a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, and operational excellence across distributed, event-driven systems.
- Drive headcount planning, organizational design, and career development frameworks.
- Partner with the VP of Software Engineering on platform strategy and organizational decisions.
- Establish prioritization frameworks for integrations, workflow reliability, data quality remediation, and customer escalations.

### Integrations
- Own the strategy and roadmap for native integrations and APIs connecting the platform to CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, data warehouse, and BI systems.
- Guide scalable, fault-tolerant backend services and event-driven integration patterns.
- Prioritize connector development and partner/ISV integrations.
- Ensure integrations meet enterprise standards for reliability, throughput, observability, and security at scale.
- Define integration requirements, SLAs, and go-to-market timelines with Product and Cloud Partners teams.
- Oversee API and webhook strategy, including versioning, documentation, and developer experience.

### Workflows and Orchestration
- Own the strategic direction for the workflow orchestration engine supporting lead-to-account matching and cross-system business processes.
- Guide architecture decisions for orchestration platforms that provide reliable execution, retries, state management, and durable long-running processes.
- Drive no-code/low-code workflow capabilities for conditional data transformation, routing, and enrichment.
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and observability across workflow systems.
- Define execution guarantees and expand orchestration capabilities to new use cases.
- Establish best practices for workflow design, idempotency, and error handling.

### Data Management
- Own data quality and data management capabilities, including deduplication, standardization, enrichment, and continuous verification.
- Guide matching-and-merging logic, enrichment waterfalls, and real-time change detection.
- Enforce validation rules and real-time data quality checks at the point of entry.
- Own compliance and governance capabilities, including suppression lists and audit trails.
- Partner with Product and Legal/Compliance on data handling standards.
- Drive monitoring of data quality metrics and proactive remediation.

### Cross-Functional Partnership & Enablement
- Partner with stakeholders to define connector, workflow, and data quality requirements and SLAs.
- Drive documentation, training, and onboarding programs.
- Represent the organization in strategic planning, company projects, and technology decisions.
- Manage vendor and partner relationships and contracts.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software/platform engineering, integrations, or data engineering leadership.
- At least 4 years at the Director level or above.
- Experience leading and scaling engineering organizations of 25+ people through managers.
- Strong working knowledge of backend and distributed-systems technologies, including Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, NestJS, Kafka, and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or Google Cloud Workflows.
- Experience owning integrations or connector ecosystems across CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, and data warehouse platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to manage through managers and hold leaders accountable for outcomes.
- Experience with data quality and management capabilities.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $224,000–$352,000.

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