Director of Engineering

National Research Group is a leading global insights and strategy firm that focuses on content, culture, and technology. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead platform engineering efforts, focusing on data infrastructure and shared services to improve delivery reliability and drive architectural direction for AI-capable products.

Responsibilities:

• Own platform strategy and execution across data infrastructure, shared services/APIs, and core systems while improving delivery predictability and systematically reducing technical debt
• Strengthen and evolve the platform engineering operating model to support scalable growth and increasing product sophistication
• Elevate and enforce standards for operational readiness, performance, security, observability, and SDLC discipline
• Champion pragmatic adoption of AI across engineering workflows and product systems – accelerating developer productivity, enabling intelligent data-driven features, and ensuring the platform can support emerging AI capabilities
• Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, setting high expectations for accountability, ownership, and cross-functional leadership

Requirements:

• 10+ years in software and/or data engineering, with significant experience in platform or shared-services environments
• 4+ years leading engineering managers and senior technical contributors across multi-team, cloud-based architectures
• Proven ability to improve execution discipline, organizational effectiveness, and cross-functional alignment at scale
• Experience defining platform strategy and operating models while balancing modernization, disciplined technical debt reduction, and ongoing delivery commitments
• Experience operating in data-intensive, analytics-driven product environments is strongly preferred
• B.A./B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field – or equivalent work experience
• You're adept at conveying technical complexity to non-technical team members
• You possess goal tracking, priority setting, and metrics competencies, supporting oversight of multiple concurrent project initiatives across the enterprise
• You solve complex problems, which support and enable sound decision making, and you have the desire to brainstorm future-thinking ideas
• You're up to date on the latest best practices and technologies, are willing to experiment with new technologies