Director of Engineering

What you'll do

• Make things go, strive for smoothness in how the team works, and remove the logistical and procedural obstacles that get in the way.
• Build scalable, consistent processes and best practices in collaboration with other Nava practices (Engineering, Design, Delivery, and Product).
• Coordinate engineering staffing and hiring with our Delivery Operations, Program Management, and Talent Acquisition teams.
• Ensure the team understands their role in effective operations.
• Collaborate with VP of Engineering and other engineering leaders to meet company objectives, recruit and hire, establish best processes and practices, grow according to the team vision, and represent engineering for Nava.
• Manage a team of 4-8 direct reports across multiple projects.
• Comfortable doing the double duty of engineering leadership and people management with the right balance of compassion and candor.
• Develop and refine equitable practices and cultivate a diverse and effective team, fostering equal opportunity and an inclusive environment for all.
• Seek support from champions within Nava or amongst clients, especially in the digital services and digital transformation space, where there is anticipated resistance to new practices or decisions.
• Provide support for direct reports on any contract (E.g. scrubbing in to help get a project on track, providing direct support if a member on the Engineering team encounters a complex stakeholder management situation in partnership with other program or practice leads).
• Deliver value to government partners by working with cross functional project leadership and leading project engineering teams.

Required skills

• Deep experience in engineering quality, strategy, management, and operations in a fast-growing company.
• Experience managing complexity, developing strategy and conducting long-term planning.
• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• At least 4+ years experience in a Solutions Architect or a similar role.
• At least 4+ years experience in a Software Engineer or a similar role.
• Experience in building data analytics platforms using modern data stack.
• Experience leading a large, complex 80+ person engineering team.
• Experience working with cross functional leads overseeing 6+ separate scrum teams.
• Meaningful experience working on web-based systems, both front-end and back-end. 
• Experience working on large-scale applications and systems. 
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset. 
• Ability to think holistically around engineering issues. 
• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture.
• Expertise developing well-crafted software. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise. 
• Experience with modern web development frameworks. 
• Experience designing and implementing application architectures and code that is highly scalable, available, and performant.
• Self-directed, requiring minimal supervision.

Desired skills

• Experience with Agile tools, including but not limited to Jira, Confluence, is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with nextjs/javascript/typescript is preferred.
• Knowledge of healthcare quality measures.
• Experience within government contracting or professional service firms.