Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Leads UBC’s Platform Development team, overseeing software architecture, application delivery, platform modernization, and engineering standards. Manages architects, development managers, and software engineers while guiding SDLC practices, Agile delivery, CI/CD, testing, deployment, documentation, security, and operational support. Defines enterprise platform roadmaps involving APIs, workflow orchestration, integrations, event-driven architecture, data systems, and AI-enabled automation. Partners with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture to deliver scalable, secure solutions in an FDA-regulated environment.

Lead strategic build-versus-buy engineering initiatives within Elastic’s IT organization. Design and deliver internal platforms using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic ML, AI, and cloud technologies across developer productivity, FinOps, IT service management, and enterprise efficiency. Establish architecture and engineering standards, partner cross-functionally with IT, Security, Platform Engineering, Finance, and other teams, and validate Elastic products through internal production systems.

Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for platform, infrastructure, identity, observability, reliability, and foundational architecture. Sets technical strategy, roadmap, standards, and architectural direction while ensuring predictable delivery, security, quality, scalability, and operational excellence. Partners with Product, Security, CloudOps, and other leaders; develops engineering directors, managers, and senior technical staff; and drives talent strategy, modernization, developer productivity, and executive communication.

Lead Boulevard’s infrastructure transformation by defining cloud, DevOps, security, and reliability strategy. Manage and grow infrastructure and reliability engineering teams while architecting scalable AWS platforms, EKS containerization, Terraform and GitOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, disaster recovery, database scaling, and compliance practices. Partner with Product, Services, Data Engineering, and Platform teams to provide secure, highly available, self-service infrastructure that supports business growth.

Leads the creation of Stellarus’s performance engineering and test automation function. Owns automated performance, load, stress, scalability, reliability, regression, and end-to-end testing systems, CI/CD quality gates, performance standards, synthetic workloads, observability-driven analysis, dashboards, and release readiness criteria. Partners with developers and platform engineering across cloud-native services, Kubernetes, APIs, databases, and event-driven systems. Mentors technical teams, leads readiness reviews, and builds a high-leverage team while remaining hands-on with tooling and strategy.

Lead multiple mobile engineering teams to deliver reliable, accessible, and scalable Android and iOS experiences. Own delivery, technical quality, org design, capacity planning, risk management, and talent development. Partner with Product, Design, and Architecture to convert strategy into executable plans, drive operational excellence, and represent mobile engineering in cross-functional and executive forums.

Leads and grows the engineering organization, sets technical strategy and roadmap, oversees execution across multiple teams, and provides technical direction on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and quality. Partners with Product, Design, Operations, Risk, and the CTO to deliver customer-focused financial products. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, improving processes, removing organizational bottlenecks, and balancing product delivery with long-term platform and infrastructure investments.

Leads enterprise web and cloud software development across multiple business lines. Sets technology strategy, oversees architecture, delivery, quality, cost, and performance, and partners with executives and cross-functional stakeholders. Manages budgets, vendors, and diverse engineering teams while mentoring staff and developing future leaders. Drives DevOps, innovation, modern UI technologies, cloud initiatives, and adoption of emerging technologies including AI. Translates strategic priorities into actionable plans and ensures effective delivery in a matrixed environment.

Lead engineering execution and organizational capability for a cloud-based PMS. Drive predictable delivery, platform reliability, modernization, AI-enabled developer productivity, standardized practices, and cross-business platform strategy while growing and developing engineering teams.

Lead and manage the Electrical Design Engineering team for 30+ facilities, deliver HV/MV/LV electrical designs for capital projects and operations, develop standards, lead FEED/FEL, manage external engineering partners, mentor SMEs, and drive reliability, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead and transform the QA function for an AI-accelerated software organization. Define technical quality strategy, CI/CD gates, test-data approaches for PHI, and automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Build and grow a high-performing quality engineering team, set release standards and exit criteria, integrate AI/LLM evaluation with MLEs, and provide auditable metrics for leadership and regulators.

Lead Platform & DevOps: set strategy, roadmaps, budgets, and org structure; deliver secure, reliable AWS/Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, observability, and security-by-default across product teams.

Leads a 35-person mechanical engineering discipline, overseeing engineering operations, programs, project delivery, staff development, client relationships, business development, financial performance, and commercial growth. Manages 6–7 direct reports, supports proposals and contracts, guides program managers, ensures project quality and timelines, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires extensive A/E/C experience, a Professional Engineer license, commercial multi-site program expertise, and strong leadership and client-facing skills.

Lead the Data Products engineering pillar owning technical strategy, clinical data ingestion, canonical modeling, and scalability. Manage ingestion pipelines, customer onboarding, data hygiene, observability, and enterprise reporting. Drive AI-augmented SDLC adoption, ensure regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), hire and mentor engineering leaders, and partner with product and data science to deliver a stable, scalable clinical data platform that supports multi-customer growth and clinical insight generation.

Leads the Engineering organization across two remote teams, directly managing, coaching, and developing engineers. Partners with Product to drive timely, high-quality delivery; staffs initiatives, develops technical leads, resolves cross-team risks, supports hiring, and contributes to architecture, technical debt, and scaling decisions. The role oversees execution, engineering process, quality, and team engagement while guiding a high-scale SaaS platform built with TypeScript, Python, Django, React, AWS, Postgres, and Redis.

You will lead engineering teams, develop managers, hire staff, drive quality, and ensure disciplined processes while representing products to stakeholders.

Lead and grow an enterprise implementation engineering team delivering mission-critical integrations (voice AI, call routing, emergency services). Stay hands-on coding and architecting solutions, engage with customers, improve onboarding velocity, collaborate across Product/Engineering/Customer Success, manage budget/vendors, and establish operational rigor and on-call coverage.

Lead multiple global engineering teams to deliver cloud-native SaaS products. Set technical strategy, drive DevOps/CI/CD practices, recruit and mentor leaders, align engineering with product and business goals, and manage budgets and KPIs.

Lead and grow platform, cloud, and DevSecOps teams to modernize delivery pipelines, implement CI/CD and GitOps, ensure secure, multi-cluster platform operations, align engineering strategy with business priorities, and establish an enterprise tools team supporting Linear, Notion, and ITSM.

Lead the broadband product line and manage a team of engineers while serving as a subject matter expert in broadband.

Lead delivery for the Nebula SaaS platform: run planning, sprint execution, release management, and reliability at scale. Drive cloud platform and architecture modernization, move AI features from prototype to production, hire and develop engineering leaders, and own budget, headcount, and cross-functional partnerships.

Lead delivery for a cloud-based eDiscovery SaaS platform, owning roadmap execution, platform scalability, reliability, AI feature productionization, org design, hiring and development of engineering managers, budget and vendor management, and cross-functional partnership with Product and senior leadership.

Senior engineering leader responsible for architecture, delivery, operations, reliability, and scalability of the enterprise Data Lakehouse. Leads cross-functional teams, defines platform SLAs, cost and quality targets, drives platform adoption and best practices, manages vendor/cloud relationships, ensures regulatory and data security compliance, and enables self-service analytics and AI/ML platform enablement.

Lead a global manufacturing engineering organization to standardize processes, drive lean continuous improvement, deploy automation and Industry 4.0 solutions (cobots, ML), and ensure safety, traceability, and zero-defect customer quality across international sites.

Lead and manage cloud-native software engineering teams to design, build, deploy, and operate scalable, secure cloud applications. Define cloud strategy, CI/CD, architecture standards, modernization initiatives, and engineering KPIs. Recruit and mentor engineers, collaborate with product, security, DevOps, QA, and stakeholders, and ensure compliance, reliability, and performance across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.