About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 45 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 400 million freights posted in 2022, and a database of $150 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, and Bangalore, India.   For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our Analytics Product Engineering Team in Denver, Colorado.

About the team

DAT’s customer base has grown rapidly, and our engineering team has spent the last few years delivering new products and features to our customers. This year we also tackled work to improve our resiliency and reliability in the face of this growth.  We currently run both on-prem and in the cloud and are migrating more of our workloads to the cloud. Our stack is Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, deployed in AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Our engineering and product teams are based in Beaverton, OR and Denver, CO and we have several offshore contracted scrum teams.

Looking ahead we will invest more in modernizing our engineering practices and tooling, and in improving an already good partnership between engineering and product so that we can build and release in smaller, more frequent increments.  We will be investing in both our current products and building new solutions for customers' problems.

What You’ll Do

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to help us scale and transform our engineering team. You will play a central role in defining and leading best practices, in order to transform the culture and maturity of our engineering organization. You’ll build relationships, model best practices, coach, and evangelize to continuously improve how we build great products.

In this role you will lead multiple engineering teams focused on product development in our Analytics business. You will partner with senior product leadership , senior technical leaders, and individual contributors to help build and guide the vision of DAT IQ .

You will be responsible for mission critical areas and have explicit authority to drive to agreed objectives. We expect this role to take on direct management responsibility for two to five engineering managers, as well as some individual contributors, such as principal engineers. A leadership style that is firm and goal oriented, and yet motivates, trains, and engages others in an enthusiastic way is important. The emphasis on building rapport and relationships with individuals and groups requires an outgoing, poised and persuasive communication style. Because the pace of the work is faster than average, the ability to learn quickly and thoroughly while continually recognizing and adapting to changing conditions is critical. The scope of the job may require effective delegation to proven people. Especially routine and repetitive details should be delegated but with responsibility for follow up and accountability for timely results. 

Who you are

• 10+ years of software development experience to include SaaS 
• A minimum of 5+ years as a people manager, including leading multiple teams within software development
• Experience with product delivery releases, Agile software development, and SDLC best practices.
• Experience leading full-stack development, setting direction, road-mapping, and carefully prioritizing technical debt and new ideas
• Well-developed technical expertise gained by building highly reliable, cloud-based systems with a focus on data driven consumer web experiences.
• You want to know how things work and aren't afraid to dig in to find out. You can talk about how it all works and why, with any audience
• You collaborate well cross-functionally, and with geographically distributed teams
• You have a gift for providing clarity from complexity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other related field

(Colorado only) In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the minimum salary for this role is $200,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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