Assistant Director, Software Engineering - Public Investments

About the Job The Assistant Director, Software Engineering (People Leader) owns end-to-end technical quality and delivery execution across UI, services, and data platforms. This role is accountable for technical direction, delivery excellence, and people leadership for the Public Investments engineering teams. In this role, you will lead engineers directly while partnering closely with Product Managers, Architects, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable solutions aligned with team objectives. You are both a technical authority and a people leader—setting direction, raising standards, and developing engineering talent. What You’ll Do Core Responsibilities Define and communicate technical direction for Public Investments team, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and delivery standards. Translate product and business outcomes into pragmatic technical designs and implementation plans. Lead solution design across front end (React), backend services (Node.js, REST APIs), and data platforms (dbt, Snowflake) with clear interface contracts and data lineage.    Drive technical decomposition and sequencing for initiatives spanning applications, APIs, pipelines, and warehouse models. Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational readiness. Own technical risk management, including early identification of architecture, integration, performance, and security risks. Ensure API and data integrations are resilient, well-documented, and reusable across teams. Improve data reliability and trust by guiding data warehouse model quality, transformation design, and warehouse performance optimization. Support production stability by guiding incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements. People Leadership & Team Development Serve as direct people leader for engineers, responsible for coaching, growth, performance management, and career development. Build a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, quality, learning, and constructive feedback. Lead regular technical and delivery reviews, fostering a healthy review and mentorship culture. Develop team capability through coaching, pairing, and intentional skills development. Partner with Engineering Management on hiring, onboarding, and succession planning. Set clear expectations and accountability for technical excellence, delivery outcomes, and operational readiness. Cross Functional Collaboration Partner closely with Product Managers to balance delivery speed, quality, and long term maintainability. Coordinate cross team dependencies and release readiness for shared components, platforms, and data pipelines. Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and other investment delivery teams’ Technical Leads to align standards, patterns, and roadmaps. Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders,…