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Director leading AI-driven software modernization across Harris LocalGov’s eight product lines. Advancing engineering teams toward safe, agentic delivery while managing strategy, talent, governance, and R&D finances.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the technology and development strategy for the LocalGov business unit
- Provide leadership and oversight for software development across eight product lines and approximately 40+ development professionals
- Advance development teams along the Harris AI-SDLC maturity model toward agentic delivery
- Lead modernization across IBM i, RPG, and modern technology platforms while preserving customer stability and business continuity
- Establish engineering standards, development methodologies, governance processes, and quality practices
- Partner with Product Management, Client Services, Professional Services, Sales, and business-unit leadership
- Develop and maintain multi-year product and technology roadmaps
- Build, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and technical teams
- Oversee capacity planning, resource allocation, and prioritization across initiatives and product lines
- Use AI development tools personally and daily and champion their organizational adoption
- Establish and monitor outcome-based KPIs and report AI delivery maturity and business outcomes to executive leadership
- Own the LocalGov AI delivery-maturity roadmap across all eight product lines and software lifecycle stages
- Establish governance, review gates, validation, and security review for AI-generated code
- Improve documentation, test coverage, CI/CD, and structured context for AI-agent access to the codebase and delivery pipeline
- Apply AI to IBM i and RPG legacy code comprehension, documentation generation, and modernization analysis
- Build tooling and training to move engineers toward supervised agent execution
- Lead cloud adoption, customer-facing AI, automation, and strategic modernization initiatives
- Ensure architecture, security, compliance, and technical governance across products
- Serve as executive escalation point for critical development issues and strategic customer initiatives
- Develop succession planning and knowledge-preservation strategies for aging legacy technology skillsets
- Manage R&D OpEx financial forecasts, monthly updates, business review reporting, and annual strategy meeting participation
- Attend key customer events in relevant markets
Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressive software development leadership experience
- 5+ years of experience leading managers, technical leaders, and software development teams within a multi-product software organization
- Demonstrated experience leading software modernization initiatives involving both legacy and modern technology platforms
- Experience managing geographically distributed development teams and cross-functional technical organizations
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, Agile methodologies, and engineering best practices
- Experience with enterprise software delivery, product strategy, and technical roadmap development
- Proven ability to align technology investments and development priorities with business objectives and customer needs
- Demonstrated experience driving organizational change and technology transformation initiatives
- Experience implementing or leading AI-assisted development practices, automation initiatives, or engineering productivity improvements
- Demonstrated hands-on use of AI development tools in daily work, with a clear point of view on where they help, where they fail, and how quickly that is changing
- Experience raising an engineering organization's way of working from individual AI assistance toward agentic, human-on-the-loop delivery, including the governance and validation that makes it safe
- Exceptional communication, organizational, stakeholder management, and executive leadership skills
- Preferred: Experience with IBM i, AS400, RPG, COBOL, or legacy platform modernization initiatives
- Preferred: Experience with local government, public sector, ERP, tax, financial, records management, or government technology solutions
- Preferred: Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Project Bob, LLMs, or similar technologies
- Preferred: Experience establishing engineering KPIs, delivery metrics, and AI adoption measurement programs
- Preferred: Experience leading engineering organizations through large-scale modernization or digital transformation efforts
- Preferred: Familiarity with cloud technologies, APIs, automation frameworks, and modern application architectures
- Preferred: Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams across multiple product lines
- Preferred: Experience integrating AI into engineering workflows, customer solutions, or business operations
- Preferred: Experience with Jira, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery methodologies
- Preferred: MBA, advanced technical experience, or equivalent executive leadership experience
Benefits:
- Attendance to key customer events in markets where large-scale development motions are occurring
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