Senior Software Engineering Director - Global Software Leader

About the Company

Our client is a global software company, already a market leader and set for exciting growth. Its software is used by some of the world’s largest companies and it has a bright future.

You will be joining a winning team in a dynamic, high-growth, AI-first, enterprise SaaS company.

About the Role

The role will lead the Platform Engineering team, which carries the next-generation AI infrastructure, and the modernization of a product trusted by significant enterprise customers worldwide. Your leadership will set the direction for how fast the R&D organization moves.

You will lead a team across cloud infrastructure, data platform, AI platform, extensions and integrations, and shared services. This is one of the most strategic technical leadership positions in the company.

Responsibilities

• Lead an Engineering team - own delivery, quality, operations across the platform layers of future architecture. Hire, grow, and build succession across the team.
• Cloud transition - complete a move to Azure on a committed timeline.
• Industrialize AI infrastructure - take the AI Agentic Platform from early adopter to production grade.
• Scale extension migration - drive the AI-powered migration of customer extensions onto the modern platform, expanding the automated pipeline and closing the gaps it cannot handle.
• Shape the technical roadmap - partner with across R&D on the technology roadmap.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production software, with 5+ years leading platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering organizations.
• You must have a track record working in Enterprise Software/SaaS companies.
• Experience in enterprise software that serves critical infrastructure, or regulated industries is ideal.
• You have run Azure and/or AWS platforms carrying enterprise SLAs, and you have owned the operational readiness story, not just the build.
• Fluent in modern data platforms and in running LLM-based systems in production: pipelines, evaluation, cost, and compliance.
• Very strong team leader - senior engineers choose to work for you, and grow under you.
• Communication - you are comfortable engaging with leadership teams across an international business.