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Forrester Director, Software Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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EMPLOYER: Forrester Research, Inc.
POSITION: Director, Software Engineering
WORKSITE: 60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140
JOB DUTIES:
Lead all engineering teams within the Product Technology organization;
Quickly assess and provide direction on technology challenges within the teams in their organization;
Grow the culture of the engineering teams to one driven by curiosity, technical excellence, and a desire to benefit Forrester’s business;
Work regularly with executive leadership to understand our evolving business objectives and ensure that the engineering organization is building platform-driven products to support these objectives;
Lead 3-5 collaborative teams built of innovative engineers with strong problem-solving skills;
Interview and hire software engineers;
Mentor, review code, and grow the skills of the engineering managers that lead their teams;
Establish software development goals, then drive Agile development and architecture best practices;
Lead the technical design and implementation of a wide variety of projects;
Partner with the product management and other technology leaders to set a vision, establish a strategy, and execute on product goals;
Communicate goals with engineering managers as well as executive leadership; and
Delegate project tasks across teams and across organizations.
Telecommuting permitted up to 40%
JOB REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field followed by five years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a Director, Software Engineering-related occupation.
In alternative, employer will accept a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field followed by three years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a Director, Software Engineering-related occupation.
Position requires demonstrable experience in the following:
Leading Agile product development teams composed of software engineers building out web front ends, middleware, data pipelines, testing suites, and DevOps;
Utilizing cloud-native development experience in web technologies built on AWS, Azure, or GCP services;
Delivering API-first, platform-first architecture and development solutions.
Team and people leadership. Lead teams and individual contributors by example, enabling them to grow as an organization and within their careers.
Managing vendors as they integrate in with development teams, and augment complete features of platforms being built.
Building technology solutions on both traditional MVC and event-driven, and serverless models.
Telecommuting permitted up to 40%
How to Apply: Email resume, including job history to Caitlin Busconi at cbusconi@forrester.com referencing FR 12122.5. EOE. Forrester Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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