Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering 

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania (Hybrid/ Office) OR Ireland 

Position Summary 

Bentley Systems is seeking an exceptional candidate to become a valued member of our leadership team as Director, Software Engineering for its Synchro product suite. As a key member of the leadership team, the Director, Software Engineering will be responsible for leading  a team of 35, fostering software engineering excellence across the Synchro portfolio to ensure that our product visions are fulfilled with exceptional quality and operational excellence delivering the best in class solutions to Bentley’s users and partners.   

The Director, Software Engineering will have experience in bringing AI enriched products and services to market with strong technical understanding of the fundamentals of machine learning and operating and managing AI based cloud services. 

Responsibilities: 

• Leads a cross-functional, multi-product engineering team that focuses on software development, quality assurance testing, and performance engineering with a DevOps mentality. 

• Owns the overall technical vision and execution strategy for the teams, being accountable for the timely delivery of high-quality, and consistent product solutions to market. 

• Heavily engage with Product Management & Business stakeholders at all levels to execute product roadmaps and meet company objectives. 

• Experience of translating business strategy and operating models; can apply gap analysis techniques to create long-term technical strategy. 

• Integrate and deliver an AI centric roadmap to enhance and modernise our existing customer experiences. 

• Democratise AI development within the engineering team, through training, mentoring and leading by example. 

• Create and maintain technical roadmap and architectural development models for the organization. 

• Can effectively mentor the team on our guiding principles and standards; while leading technical change and transformation. 

• Responsible for progressively building people, processes and technologies that are scalable, resilient, and “future-proof”. 

• Foster “Extreme Ownership” for work done by the engineering organization through build-measure-learn feedback loops and real-time KPI’s. 

• Define, implement, monitor, and report relevant performance indicators of Define standard processes along the user and product lifecycles; run some of these processes directly, e.g. product launch. 

• Partner with HR on long-term workforce planning, location strategy, talent and succession management, role/comp standardization, training, and change management. 

• Oversee all aspects of people management for the Synchro engineering team, including recruitment, skill development, compensation planning, performance feedback, and performance management. 

Qualifications: 

• At least 10+ years of professional experience in software development 

• At least 5 years leading large commercial product development teams of 20+ people 

• Experience in delivering both Software-as-a-Service and Managed-as-a-Service solutions 

• Experience in driving execution across large, cross-functional and global organizations 

• Fluency in Agile, DevOps, Build-Measure-Learn and modern software development lifecycle methods with a passion for organizing teams and driving for productivity 

• An understanding of engineering and construction workflows and the technology landscape used to deliver infrastructure projects would be highly advantageous 

• Business Acumen and technical competence  to approach technology issues from a business perspective along with a natural grasp of how to design, build, code and run cloud platforms that support business objectives. 

• Change management – Know how to apply architecture patterns like the Strangler pattern to decompose legacy apps 

• Continuous deployment methodologies such as DevOps and DevSecOps 

• Experience in developing Windows Desktop client applications 

• Experience in bringing AI focused products and services to market. 

• Proficient with following programming languages – Typescript, C#, C++, Python 

What We Offer:   

• A great Team and culture – please see our colleague video. 

• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction - watch this short documentary about how we got our start.  

• An attractive salary and benefits package. 

• A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups. 

• A company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact. 

Please note if you are employed full-time, the salary for this position ranges from 6,800 EUR gross (before taxes-Lithuania) depending on knowledge and experience. 

 Please submit resume in English.  

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