Sr. Director, Software Engineering

, passion and vision to a rapidly growing business and product area that is central to UKG's core strategy and direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Influence and support the product direction and roadmap for Pay and Compliance capabilities.

• Provide innovative solutions leveraging AI to modernize the customer experience and support exponential growth for Global Pay and Compliance offers.

• Work closely with our Support Data and Partners to address product serviceability and experience gaps.

• Research and listen to customers and stakeholders and leverage findings in the form of robust architectural designs; Participate in the entire lifecycle of the product, working closely with development teams from product initiation to delivery.

• Build strong cross-functional partnerships at multiple levels within the company, including with engineering, product management, and services.

• Work with product management to come up with innovating product extensions

• Lead cross-functional, cross-geography teams to deliver product extensions to market.

• Drive the program execution of the software from product definition through successful release and sustaining

• Lead and reinforce company values and culture in day-to-day behaviors, management style, and expectations of employees. This individual will be looked upon to inspire confidence and add additional leadership strength to the broader management team.

• Drive simplicity in the implementation of complex payroll rules and compliance frameworks, ensuring solutions are intuitive, scalable, and easy to adopt for customers. This leader will work closely with product and engineering teams to abstract away complexities, streamlining configurations and automating rule enforcement to enhance user experience and operational efficiency

Qualifications:

• 15 years of overall enterprise-level software development with 10 or more years of experience in managing high-energy software development teams.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7 or more years of experience at the Director/Sr. Director/VP level.
• Demonstrate high intellect, high integrity, positive energy, and the ability to energize others.
• Extensive software engineering development and design experience with complex and highly scalable products using multiple technologies, platforms and languages.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, values and practices.
• Experience in product integrations and API technology is desired.
• Ability to attract top talent and plan for succession; demonstrated success in motivating and cultivating high performing teams and instituting change where needed.
• Decisive and effective at issue tracking and resolution.
• Candidate must possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, including proven presentation skills.
• Candidate must possess excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and programming skills in technically complex environments and architectures.