Director, Software Engineering

Job Summary: Responsiblefor providing strategic and organizational leadership for multiple software engineering teams delivering enterprise applications in support of Penn Mutual’s businessobjectives. Acts as a senior technology leader accountable for outcomes across several development teams. Partners with business and technology leaders to set direction,establishstandards, and ensure scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions. Focuses on organizational effectiveness, delivery excellence, andlong-termtechnology strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership:Provide strategic leadership and direction across multiple application development teams through engineering managers, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and technology strategywhile fostering an environment of trust, accountability, and professional growth.

• Team Management:Lead and develop engineering managers; set clear expectations, coach leadership capability, and ensure teams are appropriately staffed, engaged, and productive.

• Project Management:Oversee a portfolio of software initiatives across teams, ensuring consistent execution, prioritization, and delivery outcomes aligned to businessobjectives.

• Technology Strategy:Define and evolve application development strategy, platforms, and architectural direction in partnership with enterprise architecture and IT leadership.

• Collaboration:Partner with product, business, IT operations, security, and architecture leaders to align roadmaps, manage dependencies, and deliver business value.

• Quality Assurance:Establishand govern standards, best practices, and quality frameworks to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable across teams.

• Resource Allocation:Manage resource allocation, including budgetingandstaffingtooptimizedelivery across multiple teams and initiatives.

• Risk Management:Proactivelyidentifyand manage delivery, technology, and organizational risks across the portfolio; ensure mitigation strategies are in place and communicated.

• Continuous Improvement:Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, delivery predictability, and organizational maturity; foster a culture of accountability, learning, and innovation.

• Compliance:Ensure teams adhere to regulatory, security, and risk management requirements, including data privacy and cybersecurity standards.

• Change Management:Oversee adherence to change management processes, ensuring organizationalreadinessand controlled implementation of application changes.

Minimum Qualifications:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and abilityrequired.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science ora relateddiscipline.

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering with progressive leadership responsibility, including managing managers and multiple delivery teams.

• Demonstrated experience leading largescale application portfolios and complex,crossfunctionalinitiativesusingmodern technologies such as Java,microservicesarchitecture, and API-based integrations.

• Strong understanding of modern application platforms, APIs, integration patterns, and governance models, with the ability to guide architectural decisions at a strategic level.

• Strong understanding of software design principles, coding standards, and engineering best practices sufficient to review, challenge, and guide technical decisions made by teams.

• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, budgets, and resources across multiple teams and initiatives.

• Excellent organizational, communication, andexecutivelevelstakeholder management skills.

Preferred:

• Experience overseeing teams buildingcloudnative,microservicesbasedsystems withwelldefinedAPI contracts and automated quality controls.

• Strong background in Agile at scale, organizational transformation, and continuous delivery models.

• Experience partnering with enterprise architecture, security, and operations teams.

Competencies:

• Customer Service: Demonstratesa strong commitment to delivering value to internal customers through reliable,highqualitysoftware solutions.

• Attention to Detail: Maintainsoversight of complex initiatives while ensuring standards, governance, and quality expectations are met.

• Analytical Skills: Evaluatesportfolioleveldata, trends, and risks to guidedecisionmakingand strategic planning.

• Communications: Communicates clearly and effectively with executives, peers, managers, and teams; ensures transparency and alignment.

• Managing People: Develops leaders, holds managers accountable, and buildshighperforming, scalable engineering organizations.

• Problem Solving: Addresses organizational, delivery, and technical challenges with a pragmatic,outcomesfocusedapproach.

• Relationship Management: Builds strong partnerships across business and technology functions.

• Teamwork: Fosters collaboration, shared ownership, and alignment across teams and disciplines.