Senior Director, Software Engineering

Cox Automotive seeks a Senior Director, Software Engineering to lead cross-functional teams building cloud-native, data-driven platforms that power our global automotive marketplace. You will own engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery for high-scale telecommunications and media solutions used by dealers and consumers worldwide. Partnering closely with Product and Data, you'll drive modern DevOps, CI/CD, and reliability practices, mentor leaders and senior engineers, and foster an inclusive, innovative culture while aligning technology outcomes to business growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple software engineering teams delivering scalable, cloud-native products for Cox Automotive's telecommunications and media platforms.

• Define technical strategy, architecture, and roadmaps in partnership with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams.

• Drive engineering excellence through modern Dev

• Ops practices, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.

• Hire, mentor, and develop senior engineers and managers, fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.

• Ensure reliability, security, and performance of mission-critical systems used by dealers and consumers worldwide.

• Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and capacity planning to meet growth and performance targets.

• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with business goals and KPIs.

• Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and governance across distributed teams.

Required Skills

• Software engineering leadership

• Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Microservices architecture

• API design and integration

• Dev

• Ops and CI/CDSite reliability engineering (SRE)

• Agile and scaled agile (Scrum/SAFe)

• Data-intensive and distributed systems

• Observability and monitoring

• Information security best practices