Lead the engineering organization in modernizing platforms and migrating systems to cloud-native architectures, focusing on scalability and AI integrations while managing a distributed team.
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Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly accomplished Director of Engineering to lead our global engineering organization in driving organizational transformation, platform modernization, and large-scale ERP and core services migrations. This leader will spearhead efforts to build and scale next-generation distributed systems on AWS, consolidate platforms, and modernize legacy environments to cloud-native, event-driven architectures.
The ideal candidate brings an AI-first mindset, deep expertise in event-driven and microservices architectures, and a proven track record of executing large-scale migrations , ERP implementations (NetSuite, Workday, D365 etc.), and platform consolidation programs.
This leader will guide a diverse, remote-first engineering team across multiple geographies, foster innovation, and drive excellence in enterprise integration with SaaS platforms (Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday) and real-time enterprise data platforms.
What You'll Do
- Lead modernization and migration of legacy systems to cloud-native architectures and microservices.
- Define and drive the architectural vision for scalable, event-driven distributed systems on AWS.
- Oversee engineering teams building microservices, serverless applications, relational and NoSQL databases.
- Champion adoption of AI-first approaches to improve productivity, monitoring, testing, and automation.
- Drive platform consolidation and core services migration to reduce complexity and operational costs.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering organization across time zones.
- Establish a culture of excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
- Ensure teams are aligned with business priorities and deliver on time with high quality.
- Ensure systems operate at scale with resiliency, performance, and observability as top priorities.
- Implement world-class monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for real-time visibility.
- Establish practices for cost optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery.
- Lead integration strategy with SaaS products like Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, and other ERP platforms.
- Orchestrate large-scale ERP migrations and data consolidation initiatives.
- Drive adoption of enterprise integration tools, data warehouses, and messaging/event platforms.
- Build real-time dashboards and analytics platforms to support executive decision-making.
- Partner with product, data, and business teams to align engineering execution with business goals.
- Anticipate industry trends and position the company to leverage emerging AI and cloud-native technologies.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles managing distributed teams.
- Strong background in organizational transformation, platform modernization, and ERP/core services migrations.
- Proven expertise in AWS cloud services, event-driven systems, and microservices.
- Strong background in transactional system design with high performance and reliability.
- Hands-on experience with relational (Postgres, MySQL) and non-relational databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.).
- Demonstrated success in building AI-enabled systems, automation frameworks, or ML/AI integrations.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise SaaS integration (Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday) and enterprise data platforms.
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills to guide global teams.
- Strong background in observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
- Deep understanding of enterprise data pipelines, real-time dashboards, and data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
- Ability to work across product, engineering, data, and executive leadership to align strategy and execution.
Colibri Group welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and we understand that not every candidate will meet every requirement listed in the job description. Research has shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every qualification, and we want to actively combat this bias in our hiring process. If you're excited about the role and believe you have the skills and experience to contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply, even if your background doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we believe that diversity of perspectives and experiences is essential to our success. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another position within our organization. Don't hesitate to take the leap and apply today!
Top Skills
AI
AWS
BigQuery
D365
Datadog
DynamoDB
Event-Driven Architectures
Grafana
Microservices
MongoDB
MySQL
NetSuite
Opentelemetry
Postgres
Prometheus
Redshift
Salesforce
Snowflake
Workday
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