Director, Software Engineering

PRGX provides software and services to maximize revenue recovery and drive margin improvement within our clients’ source-to-pay data. This position is responsible for leading our engineering team that is leveraging cutting edge technologies to solve the most complex big data challenges.

JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Partner with Product Management and lead PRGX agile scrum teams to design and deliver highly resilient, scalable, extensible, maintainable product and platform solutions.
2. Be a trusted technology expert for business and product management by accurately estimating and establishing predictable delivery of new business capabilities.
3. Coach and mentor engineers by giving thoughtful feedback to deliver high quality product on time and champion engineering excellence.
4. Promote the culture of ownership, innovation and lead by example to build and maintain high performance team environment.
5. Stay current with modern technology trends to bring efficiency in software engineering.
6. Provide cost/benefit analysis to influence technology selection and architecture strategy to solve most complex business problems.
7. Recommend, influence and document technical solutions towards complex business problems.
8. Collaborate with production support team to resolve any critical issues with the highest sense of urgency.
9. Other duties as assigned.

WORK EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or similar related field.
2. Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a software engineering leader managing and overseeing global teams and projects utilizing agile based development methodologies.
3. Minimum of 10 years’ progressive software development experience building enterprise grade product solutions.
4. Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading teams in the design and development of cloud native applications, preferably using Azure.
5. Strong understanding of concepts/technologies like MVC, Spring boot, application/API security – SAML/OAuth, API governance, service mesh, JPA, ORM, lucene based indexing and search tools.
6. Fluent with object oriented as well as functional programming.
7. Prior experience designing and developing event driven, high volume multi-tenant SaaS architectures and platforms, working with high volume data streaming tools preferably kafka streams, building data engineering pipelines and processing big data workloads.
8. Experience with behavior driven test development preferably using cucumber, selenium is a big plus.
9. Prior experience with design and development of CI/CD pipelines preferably using Jenkins to configure build jobs and promote artifacts from development all the way to production.
10. Prior proven experience of utilizing and productionizing container/container orchestration technologies like Docker, kubernetes. Experience with gitOps implementation, preferably using Argo will be a plus.
11. Must be a self-starter with a heightened sense of urgency and a track record of completing projects on-time and on-budget.

EEO INFORMATION AND WORKING CONDITIONS

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the job. PRGX will make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship status, sex, pregnancy, religion, age (age 40 and over), disability, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities. The employee is occasionally required to remain stationary; move; lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. The employee must regularly sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; communicate. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.