Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own Perk’s global go-to-market engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, and roadmap. Build production-grade Clay automations, Salesforce integrations, orchestration systems, and AI-agent workflows using code and modern data infrastructure. Automate prospecting, seller workflows, account intelligence, and revenue operations while measuring commercial impact. Lead and develop a senior international team, partner with sales and revenue leaders, and establish engineering standards for scalable, monitored, tested, and recoverable systems.

Leads strategic software engineering initiatives within PwC’s Tax practice, overseeing application design, coding, testing, architecture, integration, and delivery. Drives digital transformation, develops scalable solutions using .NET, Java, Python, and Azure, and applies CI/CD and ATDD practices. The Director also manages client and executive stakeholders, identifies software product opportunities, ensures technical compliance, promotes innovation, and mentors software engineering leaders.

Leads the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Prolaio’s cloud-native platform engineering capabilities across GCP environments. Owns observability, infrastructure tooling, access controls, data lifecycle management, platform services, automation, governance, and AI-enabled features. Partners with engineering, data, security, quality, product, and clinical teams to deliver secure, compliant, auditable healthcare data platforms. Builds and mentors a high-performing platform engineering organization supporting clinical research, analytics, data science, and enterprise data services.

Leads the Search Engineering organization supporting Grainger’s digital experiences. Responsibilities include owning search strategy and roadmap, overseeing indexing, retrieval, ranking, and ML-powered search capabilities, managing engineering managers and senior managers, developing talent, improving agile delivery and operational rigor, and championing DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, observability, and scalable systems. The role partners closely with Product, Architecture, and Data Science and represents Search engineering with executive stakeholders.

Lead and scale software engineering teams building SaaS platforms. Set technical strategy, ensure best practices (architecture, CI/CD, security), drive delivery and KPIs, partner with Product and cross-functional leaders, and develop engineering talent while introducing AI/data capabilities to improve platform scalability, reliability, and business outcomes.

Lead Statara’s Data Products & Engineering function, owning Snowflake-based data infrastructure reliability and evolution, solution architecture for client engagements, pre-sales technical support, cross-functional alignment, and team leadership to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Lead the global SAP General Ledger engineering team to define strategy, deliver S/4HANA builds, manage production support, drive SAP cloud and BTP initiatives, integrate SAP AI, oversee BW/BPC, manage vendor relationships, and influence senior stakeholders across the firm.

Leads the Insurance Product Configuration and Enrollment Platform Core, managing engineering managers and 20–30 engineers. Owns technical vision, distributed systems architecture, delivery commitments, operational excellence, testing strategy, partner implementations, and cross-team interfaces. Develops engineering leaders, manages hiring and vendors, and drives adoption of AI-augmented development tools and practices. Ensures scalable, secure, reliable platform services while balancing contractual delivery dates with long-term platform maintainability.

Lead the electrical engineering team for designing and developing consumer products, oversee technical leadership in power electronics and embedded systems, and manage product development from concept to production.

The Director of Engineering will lead platform engineering strategy and teams, enhancing developer experience, driving AI integration, and establishing governance for development practices.

Lead technical strategy for a 50–150+ engineer organization, establish architecture and engineering standards, drive delivery, and partner with executives on technology investments. Embed production-grade generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, and ML automation into engineering. Own AI platforms, distributed systems, cloud-native backend architecture, modernization initiatives, microservices migrations, and engineering transformation while ensuring scalable, reliable outcomes.

Leads manufacturing engineering strategy across 11 facilities, overseeing capital planning, process optimization, automation, continuous improvement, equipment projects, and plant troubleshooting. Builds and develops engineering teams, standardizes processes, manages CAPEX and vendors, and partners cross-functionally to improve safety, quality, productivity, sustainability, reliability, and cost performance. The role is remote with extensive travel to manufacturing sites.

Lead and develop motor engineering team, drive motor technology strategy, oversee end-to-end motor development, collaborate with suppliers and engineering teams, ensure optimal performances and manufacturability of motor systems.

Lead design, implementation, and management of the bank's network infrastructure. Oversee a team of network engineers, ensure security and regulatory compliance, manage vendors, respond to incidents, optimize performance and capacity, control budgets, and report to senior stakeholders while supporting modernization and resilience initiatives.

Senior engineering leader responsible for multi-cloud (GCP/Azure) platform strategy, architecture, and operational excellence. Lead and grow cloud, SRE, and platform teams, own IaC and GitOps practices, observability, disaster recovery, FinOps, and cloud security/compliance. Drive Internal Developer Platform, vendor relationships, and AI-enabled cloud tooling while partnering with product, security, data, and application teams.

Provides senior technical and organizational leadership across engineering teams and domains. Responsibilities include developing talent, aligning technical roadmaps with enterprise strategy, partnering with product and architecture, managing technical risks, establishing engineering standards, overseeing Agile delivery, coordinating complex initiatives, and communicating outcomes to senior leadership. The role requires experience with infrastructure, platform or shared services teams and large-scale data applications, preferably in regulated industries.

Leads the strategic vision, roadmap, and execution of the Health100 platform engineering organization. Oversees complex integrations, platform modernization, cloud migrations, engineering governance, architecture, delivery, talent development, vendor strategy, and stakeholder alignment. Guides multi-team initiatives across distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and AI-enabled solutions while ensuring quality, operational reliability, measurable outcomes, and high-performing engineering teams.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

Leads the multidisciplinary Integrated Sensor engineering organization across hardware, embedded and edge software, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. Sets technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and product delivery processes while scaling reliable systems for nationwide field deployment. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, coordinating hardware and software development, improving testing and operational resilience, resolving field issues, and partnering with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and company leadership.

Lead engineering strategy, architecture, AI-native product development, execution, hiring, and organizational growth. Partner with the CEO, leadership, and Product to build technical roadmaps, establish AI-assisted development and evaluation practices, improve infrastructure and engineering quality, and maintain delivery accountability. This hands-on leadership role requires coding credibility, product collaboration, talent development, cross-functional communication, and ownership of engineering metrics, culture, and technical direction.

Lead senior engineering teams responsible for ZoomInfo’s operational and analytical data platforms. Set strategy, architecture, and roadmaps for Bigtable, BigQuery, ingestion pipelines, CDC systems, reliability, scalability, observability, and compliant customer data deletion. Manage technical leaders, develop engineering talent, prioritize competing initiatives, and partner with executives, product, legal, compliance, security, and downstream engineering teams to accelerate data onboarding and maintain platform integrity.

Leads capital engineering projects across manufacturing and supply chain facilities, from concept through commissioning and startup. Directs industrial automation, PLC/HMI/SCADA modernization, manufacturing systems integration, digital manufacturing, reliability improvements, and OT cybersecurity implementation. Partners with plant, IT, cybersecurity, maintenance, suppliers, and integrators to deliver secure, scalable solutions, improve operational performance, and maintain engineering standards across multiple locations.

Lead and manage the Electrical Design Engineering team for 30+ facilities, deliver HV/MV/LV electrical designs for capital projects and operations, develop standards, lead FEED/FEL, manage external engineering partners, mentor SMEs, and drive reliability, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Leads the vision, roadmap, and development of an AI-enabled Service Catalog platform. Combines product leadership with hands-on full-stack engineering across web applications, APIs, integrations, workflows, and AI features. Manages engineering and product strategy, defines success metrics, partners with architects and stakeholders, prototypes capabilities, and ensures scalable, secure, responsible solutions with human oversight.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and delivery of FOS software products. Manages and scales engineering teams, drives modernization from legacy to modern technology stacks, oversees cloud, microservices, APIs, CI/CD, quality, security, and reliability practices, and collaborates with product and business stakeholders. The role also supports talent recruitment and development, compliance with SOC 2 requirements, disaster recovery planning, and continuous engineering improvement.