Director of Software Engineering

About the Role Staritas is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead, modernize, and scale its engineering organization. This role is responsible for software delivery, team leadership, platform modernization, DevOps maturity, production reliability, software quality, and responsible AI adoption. The Director will lead engineering managers, technical leads, and software teams building secure, scalable, business-aligned enterprise applications. This leader will partner with Product, Architecture, Data, Security, Infrastructure, Operations, and business stakeholders to turn strategy into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Key Responsibilities Lead, coach, and develop high-performing software engineering teams. Own delivery outcomes, including roadmap execution, quality, reliability, team performance, and engineering effectiveness. Partner with the CTO and technology leaders on engineering strategy, modernization, AI enablement, SDLC improvements, and delivery operations. Work with Product and business stakeholders to prioritize roadmaps, balance feature delivery with technical health, and align work to business goals. Establish engineering standards, delivery metrics, agile practices, quality gates, documentation expectations, and release discipline. Drive modernization of legacy applications, platforms, development practices, deployment models, and workflows. Improve delivery through CI/CD, automated testing, secure development, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement. Reduce technical debt, platform fragmentation, manual processes, recurring defects, and production instability. Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, learning, quality, and operational excellence. Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, succession planning, and team health initiatives. AI Enablement Champion responsible AI adoption across software engineering. Evaluate and guide use of tools such as Claude, ChatGPT