Director, Digital Engineering – Enablement

Role Overview

• Define and drive the GCC Digital Engineering strategy aligned with global business priorities and technology roadmaps
• Establish scalable organization structures, leadership capacity, and operating models to support diverse engineering programs
• Align investments, priorities, and resource planning with business outcomes and stakeholder expectations
• Drive organizational transformation through strong operational and strategic leadership aligned with engineering and corporate priorities
• Lead execution across embedded systems, enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and mobile technologies with a focus on quality, predictability, and execution excellence
• Oversee the engineering lifecycle from architecture through development, validation, deployment, and sustainment
• Manage program trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and commitments in collaboration with global stakeholders
• Strengthen engineering governance, secure-by-design practices, and lifecycle discipline across digital engineering programs
• Establish end-to-end engineering frameworks, governance models, and delivery practices to improve consistency, compliance, and quality
• Embed disciplined execution practices across requirements management, design, validation, defect management, and release governance
• Drive operational excellence through KPI-led performance management, continuous improvement, and standardized execution practices
• Improve delivery speed, predictability, productivity, and engineering efficiency through data-driven planning and execution management
• Build and develop high-performing teams across hardware, firmware, software, and digital platform engineering
• Drive workforce planning, organization design, and capability development aligned with business growth and engineering priorities
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across global teams
• Strengthen leadership pipelines, succession planning, and cross-functional engineering collaboration
• Enable pragmatic adoption of emerging technologies, including AI/ML, to improve productivity, quality, automation, and time-to-market
• Promote reuse, modularity, standardization, and technical debt reduction across engineering programs
• Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to identify scalable digital transformation opportunities
• Partner closely with Project Management, Segment Engineering, Product Engineering, Regional PMOs, and business stakeholders to improve delivery outcomes
• Represent Digital Engineering & Enablement in executive reviews, operational governance forums, and strategic discussions
• Act as the primary GCC digital engineering leader for global stakeholders, aligning priorities, resolving escalations, and strengthening stakeholder trust

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, or related field required
• Master’s degree preferred
• 15+ years of experience, including significant leadership experience in global engineering environments
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams across hardware, firmware, software, cloud, and digital platforms
• Strong understanding of engineering governance, operating models, lifecycle management, and process-driven execution
• Experience driving digital transformation, operational excellence initiatives, and scalable engineering capabilities
• Exposure to AI/ML enablement, secure-by-design practices, and KPI-led performance management
• Ability to lead effectively in a complex, matrixed, global organization
• A collaborative leader with strong executive presence and stakeholder management capability

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Work on meaningful challenges impacting global water sustainability and digital innovation
• Collaborate with diverse, global teams across engineering, technology, and business functions
• Build and scale a high-visibility Digital Engineering capability within a growing GCC
• Shape your career into broader technology, operational, or enterprise leadership roles
• Be part of a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous growth