Sr Director Software Engineering

You will report directly to VP, Engineering and you'll work out of our Atlanta, GA location on a Hybrid work schedule. 

In this role, you will impact the company's ability to drive innovation, deliver high-quality products, and achieve business objectives. Your strategic leadership, technical expertise, and commitment to excellence will contribute to the company's success, reputation, and growth in the industry. 

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES

• Engineering Strategy & Execution: Set a unified strategy across SRE, platform, and application teams; define measurable outcomes (reliability, feature throughput, cost/performance) and run operating cadences (QBRs, scorecards, postmortems).
• Product & Customer-Centric Thinking: Aligns technical priorities with customer needs and understands the business impact of engineering decisions.
• Cloud, Infrastructure & FinOps: Lead cloud and hybrid architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP) for scalability and resilience; implement cost governance (FinOps), capacity planning, and performance optimization with transparent unit economics.
• SRE & Production Excellence: Establish SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, on-call practices, incident response, and blameless postmortems; mature observability (metrics/logs/traces/RUM) and progressive delivery (canary/blue‑green/feature flags).
• Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement: Build an Internal Developer Platform with paved roads (templates, guardrails, self‑service CI/CD, artifact management, secrets); treat shared services as products with clear SLAs and reliability targets.
• Application Development (Web + Data/AI): Guide architecture and delivery of secure, scalable web apps leveraging data platforms and ML/AI; integrate model lifecycle (feature stores, registries, monitoring for drift/bias) with safe rollouts.
• Enterprise Architecture & Integration: Define reference architectures and integration patterns (APIs, event‑driven, streaming, data pipelines) to enable interoperability; govern contracts, versioning, and change management.
• Quality Engineering & Test Automation: Champion automated testing strategies across unit, integration, performance, and security layers; implement frameworks for continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines and ensure high coverage.
• Security, Privacy & Compliance: Embed security‑by‑design across SDLC and enforce data governance and privacy (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA) with auditability and policy‑as‑code.
• Organization, Talent & Executive Leadership: Structure and scale distributed teams; establish career frameworks and succession planning; manage budgets and vendor partnerships; communicate strategy and outcomes to executives and external forums.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SRE & Reliability Engineering: Experienced in implementing SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management; can guide observability strategies and lead critical postmortems when necessary.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture: Deep understanding of AWS/Azure/GCP and hybrid architectures; able to review designs for scalability, resilience, and cost optimization, and validate IaC patterns.
• Platform Engineering & CI/CD: Proven track record building internal developer platforms and automated pipelines; can coach teams on GitOps, progressive delivery, and enforce security/compliance guardrails.
• Application Development & Architecture: Strong background in modern web frameworks (React, TypeScript) and service architectures (microservices, APIs); can mentor on design patterns and intervene in critical reviews.
• Data & AI Integration: Hands-on experience with data platforms and MLOps; able to guide model deployment strategies, monitoring for drift/bias, and ensure responsible AI practices.
• Quality Engineering & Test Automation: Skilled in establishing automated testing strategies across unit, integration, performance, and security; can step in to optimize frameworks and coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Security & Compliance by Design: Expertise in embedding security controls and ensuring compliance with corporate security guidelines and policies; can lead risk reviews and remediation efforts.
• Enterprise Architecture & Integration: Experienced in API design, event-driven systems, and data pipelines; can guide integration strategies and resolve cross-team architectural challenges.
• Leadership & Delivery at Scale: Adept at roadmapping, OKRs, and portfolio management; can coach managers on balancing reliability, speed, and cost, and step in for executive-level communication or vendor negotiations.

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL

In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information visit: click here )

The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

YOU MUST HAVE

• Proven track record of leading large-scale engineering organizations and driving transformation in complex enterprise environments.
• Deep technical leadership experience in modern software engineering practices, including cloud-native architectures, SRE, DevOps, and scalable platforms.
• Hands-on credibility: Has implemented key practices (multi-cloud, CI/CD, test automation, security-by-design) and can guide teams with confidence.
• Experience delivering data-driven and AI-enabled products; familiarity with integrating ML/AI into production systems.
• Strong architectural vision across distributed systems, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Expertise in security, compliance, and risk management for global-scale systems.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills: Able to influence executives, inspire teams, and align technology strategy with business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability and governance in large organizations.

WE VALUE

• Advanced technical foundation: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven leadership experience: Significant track record (typically 10+ years) leading large, distributed engineering teams and driving transformation in complex environments.
• Credibility through experience: Hands-on background in modern engineering practices (cloud-native, SRE, DevOps, test automation) with the ability to guide and mentor strong technical teams.
• Enterprise agility mindset: Ability to accelerate delivery and modernize processes in large organizations without compromising reliability or compliance.
• Influential leadership: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to align executives, business, product, and engineering toward shared outcomes.
• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement: Thrives on introducing new ideas, technologies, and practices that create measurable business impact.

US PERSON REQUIREMENTS

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization.