Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads tax technology initiatives by directing software architecture, application design, coding, testing, integration, and client-facing solution delivery. Sets strategic direction, develops roadmaps, drives business growth, evaluates AI and emerging technologies, guides cross-functional teams, coaches leaders, and ensures professional and independence standards. Translates tax requirements into scalable engineering strategies while improving service delivery and business performance.

Leads AWS-native application engineering initiatives across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and modernization. Sets technical direction, oversees multiple delivery workstreams, guides AI-enabled engineering practices, and develops scalable cloud solutions. Builds executive client relationships, shapes transformation roadmaps, supports business development, mentors engineering teams, and drives application performance, security, reliability, and cloud modernization across AWS and other major cloud platforms.

Leads Deepgram’s GTM Engineering function, owning CRM, CPQ, forecasting, billing, data, integrations, automation, and internal tooling. Translates commercial needs into scalable systems and AI-powered workflows, establishes engineering standards, connects usage and revenue data, and partners with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data teams. This player-coach role designs, codes, tests, ships production systems, and develops a small team while prioritizing automation and operational leverage.

Leads a globally distributed 130-person engineering organization responsible for Expedia’s experience platform. Sets platform engineering practices, modernizes web and app infrastructure, CMS, design systems, and configurable capabilities, and partners with architecture and technology leaders on enterprise decisions. The role develops engineering talent, strengthens execution and technical leadership, builds cross-functional partnerships, and treats internal developers and product teams as platform customers.

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.

Leads the Merchant & Pay engineering organization, overseeing managers and teams responsible for merchant, partner, payment, and internal tooling systems. Owns technical strategy, multi-year roadmaps, reliability, scalability, security, engineering standards, and generative AI adoption. Partners with Product, Data, Security, and company leadership while recruiting, developing, and retaining engineering talent. Requires extensive engineering leadership experience, AWS expertise, marketplace or payments experience, and experience scaling business-critical platforms.

Principal Platform Engineering individual contributor responsible for advancing cloud platform reliability, observability, SRE practices, infrastructure as code, cloud efficiency, and performance. The role defines observability roadmaps, drives DORA and reliability metrics, improves incident and postmortem practices, supports highly available AWS environments, mentors engineers through technical influence, and ensures regulatory compliance. Responsibilities include capacity planning, technology roadmaps, production changes, on-call support, documentation, and escalation management.

Leads approximately 35 engineers across data engineering, integration engineering, and integration support. Owns delivery predictability, manager development, operational reliability, SLA performance, data platform modernization, integration scalability, and organizational clarity. Partners with product, data science, commercial, and delivery teams while overseeing healthcare integrations with EHR systems, enterprise data infrastructure, incident management, and client-facing reliability commitments.

Leads enterprise process engineering strategy across a multi-site manufacturing network. Establishes engineering standards, develops automation and technology roadmaps, drives operational excellence, supports capital investments, and leads manufacturing modernization. Partners with operations, quality, supply chain, finance, and business leaders to improve safety, productivity, reliability, quality, throughput, cost, and EBITDA. Builds technical capabilities and influences adoption of common engineering practices across business units.

Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for enterprise software platforms and customer workflows. Defines engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, modernization initiatives, governance, and operational excellence practices. Partners with product, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, reliable solutions. Oversees talent development, vendors, technical risk, cloud adoption, DevSecOps, CI/CD, production readiness, incident management, and engineering performance metrics while communicating progress and organizational health to executives.

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.

Leads engineering squads in delivering reliable, scalable, high-quality software. Provides technical direction, establishes engineering standards, manages technical debt, improves platform reliability and delivery flow, and partners with Product, Delivery, and QA leadership. Develops engineers and technical leads, manages onshore and offshore partners, removes blockers, and aligns engineering practices with business objectives.

Leads geographically distributed Business Analyst and Software Engineering teams delivering global enterprise Time and Pay solutions. Owns strategy, architecture, development, integrations, modernization, automation, quality, and operational performance across Oracle and ADP platforms. Partners with HR, Finance, vendors, and technology leaders to define roadmaps, address multinational payroll and workforce requirements, and deliver scalable solutions. Requires extensive enterprise application leadership, cloud, AI, systems integration, and transformation experience.

Leads large-scale building operating systems and IoT engineering programs, including BMS connectivity, controls, security compliance, fault detection, predictive maintenance, and asset management. Serves as a trusted client advisor, oversees project delivery and reporting, presents technical solutions, and manages a team of engineering subject matter experts. Develops resource plans, succession strategies, and professional growth programs while supporting facilities, sustainability, business continuity, and lifecycle asset initiatives.

Leads platform engineering strategy across Azure infrastructure, legacy Windows Server workloads, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, reliability, identity, security, cost optimization, and engineering tooling. Builds and develops a platform engineering team while overseeing tenant consolidation, modernization, observability, incident response, and developer self-service. Partners with Security and Compliance to support sensitive and regulated data environments.

Leads software engineering, business intelligence, AI solutions, and R&D functions. Translates organizational priorities into delivery plans, governs portfolios, manages budgets and resources, oversees quality and security practices, and supports internal and client-facing engagements. Develops leaders and technical teams, improves operational performance, monitors project health and profitability, partners with sales and stakeholders, and guides automation, data, software, and AI initiatives from delivery through operational support.

Leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization responsible for enterprise analytics platforms supporting healthcare applications, AI products, search, translation, and text summarization. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, code quality, platform modernization, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. Partners with Data Science, Product, Analytics, and Architecture teams while mentoring leaders and communicating technical strategy to stakeholders.

Leads manufacturing and product engineering for a bath-products facility. Responsibilities include improving processes and equipment, resolving production and quality issues, driving automation and capital investments, developing products from concept through launch, managing engineering documentation and validation, and partnering with suppliers and cross-functional teams. The role also builds and leads engineering teams, establishes roadmaps and standards, and provides hands-on leadership on the manufacturing floor.

Provides technical and people leadership for forensic investigations of damaged building structures and mechanical and electrical systems. Conducts site inspections, analyzes materials and environmental factors, interprets building codes, and prepares defensible technical reports. Reviews consultants’ work, manages project scope and budgets, coordinates clients and site visits, mentors engineers, and supports business development. The role is fully remote but requires field work and travel up to 50%.

Leads the platform development organization, including software engineering, architecture, platform modernization, cloud adoption, AI-enabled capabilities, and enterprise solution delivery. Establishes development standards, SDLC readiness gates, CI/CD workflows, security practices, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversees architects, managers, and software engineers while managing resources, risks, and escalations. Requires extensive Microsoft technology, Azure, software architecture, regulated-environment validation, and people leadership experience.

Leads the SRE function for a business-critical domain, owning reliability strategy, SLOs, observability, incident response, resilience, capacity, automation, and risk management. Builds and develops high-performing SRE teams and managers, translates business priorities into reliability roadmaps, partners with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and risk teams, and remains technically hands-on in software and automation solutions.

Leads enterprise stability and resilience engineering teams and capabilities. Builds software engineering standards, automation, governance, and reusable controls that improve reliability, recoverability, security, scalability, performance, and customer outcomes. Maps customer journeys and technology dependencies, drives resilience-by-design across the engineering lifecycle, establishes reliability and performance practices, and influences executive leaders on multi-year modernization strategies.

Leads a 60-person engineering organization, managing seven engineering managers and owning delivery, staffing, organizational health, manager development, operating strategy, technical roadmap, and AI adoption. Establishes engineering KPIs using Linear, DORA, and reliability metrics; improves delivery predictability and system reliability; guides architecture and capacity allocation; and ships production AI or agentic initiatives with standards for security, cost, observability, and reliability.

Leads engineering standards, architecture governance, platform strategy, technical quality, security and compliance engineering, and production AI governance across CSL Plasma’s digital products. Manages cross-domain technical teams, sets cloud and integration direction, owns shared engineering platforms and data architecture, and ensures reliable, scalable, regulated software delivery. The role also drives AI-assisted development, production AI operations, engineering metrics, talent development, and alignment with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Life360’s critical platforms, including location and messaging, cloud infrastructure, identity, and partner ecosystems. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and scalability, establish engineering metrics, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner with Product, Security, Data, and Engineering leadership to align technical investments with business outcomes while supporting secure, high-performing systems serving millions of users.