Director Software Engineering

Req ID: 9914

Remote Opportunities: Remote

We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come… for our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We are positioned at the intersection of sustainability and technology. Our businesses develop technology that helps save our customers energy and reduce their carbon emissions. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and location-aware applications.

Job Summary

Acuity Brands has established the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG) to tackle problems within the built environment. The built environment is responsible for 40% of the world's greenhouse gases and we are creating solutions that will make buildings Smarter, Safer, and Greener. ISG is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to join our Atrius software leadership team in the growth of our Internet of Things (IoT) driven applications. This position’s full-stack team is focused on the development of cloud tools that provide our customers centralized monitoring and control of their built space. As the Director of this team, you will bring your passion for developing engineering teams so that they are capable of building elegant, reliable, and maintainable systems to help us design, deploy, scale, and maintain highly available distributed cloud applications that support our customers’ building management goals. You will also be responsible for working with other software leaders, contributing directly to overall product design and technical architecture; you will work in close collaboration and open communication across functional boundaries throughout the growing ISG organization. Our teams are highly distributed, and remote work is the norm. Culturally, we place emphasis on trust, respect, asynchronous communication, creativity, and valuing our customer.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

The Director of Software Engineering is a key leadership role and an opportunity to apply your unique combination of technical skills and people skills to customer-facing products and services. While doing so, you will work with a broad array of technology and business experts to leave a lasting impact on our customer’s sustainability, building operations, and business intelligence initiatives. In addition, you will leverage your skills as a leader and a mentor to develop the software engineers you work with.

Your Responsibilities:

Develop, mentor, and coach the engineers on your team so that they can achieve their career goals and work in a positive, inspiring environment
Drive continuous improvement by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Use a data-driven approach to improve team effectiveness
Ensure we develop high-quality, maintainable software in a collaborative environment
Work across development team boundaries to enable best practices for planning, development, deployment and management of cloud-based systems and applications
Work with our Quality Assurance team on automation and test planning
Work with our SRE and DevOps teams on automated pipelines and observability
Work with our Product team to ensure our products enable our customers to think Smarter, Safer, and Greener about their environment

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

A love of learning about technology
10+ years of programming experience in any modern programming language
5+ years managing Scrum teams and developing engineers
Strong written and verbal communication skills
A track record of demonstrating leadership for a team of software engineers in developing applications that effectively address customers' problems
Experience with Agile Methodologies such as Scrum - you’ve been on teams that practice Agile, and you understand why it’s beneficial
Solid understanding of application lifecycle management (ALM) in a cloud-native context leveraging infrastructure-as-code principles
Experience building cloud applications that are continuously deployed
Experience with CI / CD pipelines and GitOps tools / frameworks
Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and microservice testing best practices
Experience with monitoring platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS, etc.)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
A commitment to lifelong growth, improvement, and learning

Preferred Skills and Experience

A passion for sustaining the environment
A passion for helping and developing others
Experience building and leading high-performance, distributed teams
Experience with team-level project management and Agile/Scrum processes
Experience with building-science concepts
Experience working with IoT networks
Experience deploying or operating cloud solutions (Microsoft Azure preferred)
Experience in business continuity, security, and compliance

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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The range for this position is $182,300.00 to $328,200.00. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location.

Nearest Major Market: Atlanta
Job Segment: Test Engineer, Software Engineer, Cloud, Testing, Machinist, Engineering, Technology, Manufacturing

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