Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead engineering for Partner Experience across Partner Acquisition & Delivery and Partner Reporting & Insights. Own team health, technical strategy, delivery velocity, and AI-native engineering adoption. Partner with product leadership on roadmap, coach engineering managers, drive architecture and resourcing decisions, and measure AI-augmented velocity while delivering partner onboarding, quoting, lead delivery, and reporting systems.

Lead multiple engineering teams owning the patient journey, plus QA and Product Support across apps. Manage managers, set technical quality standards, stay hands-on in code, adopt AI-assisted development, solve cross-team reliability and observability problems, and partner with product, design, and clinical stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-value patient experiences.

Lead engineering strategy and delivery for MyPresidio.com. Own web platform architecture, performance, scalability, reliability and SLAs. Set technical roadmap, drive agile delivery and budgets, oversee integrations and backend systems, manage engineering operating model and contractors, troubleshoot incidents, and represent web technology to executives to align engineering investments with business goals.

Lead and grow cross-functional mobile and backend engineering teams, define and execute architecture and engineering standards, ensure secure, scalable mobile-backend integration, drive CI/CD, observability, and best practices, mentor engineering leaders, and partner with Product, Design, and AI to deliver high-quality, customer-centric healthcare applications.

The Mechanical Engineering Director will oversee the U.S. Data Center Mechanical Department, providing technical leadership, managing team performance, establishing design standards, and ensuring quality in mechanical design for hyperscale data centers.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead the development of a comprehensive software system for the construction industry, ensuring successful technology delivery and communication with various stakeholders.

Lead and scale platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevSecOps teams; modernize CI/CD/GitOps pipelines; champion shift-left security; partner with Product, Data, AI, and Security to align engineering strategy with business priorities; establish enterprise tools and maintain secure, multi-cluster, multi-tenant platforms while fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead a multi-functional team, oversee technical design, architect solutions for a SaaS platform, and ensure compliance with security standards.

Lead and grow the product engineering team, strengthen engineering processes and culture, operationalize AI across the SDLC, own governance for agentic systems, set architectural direction, partner cross-functionally, and drive hiring and team development.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead teams in creating innovative education tech solutions, strategic planning, and optimizing software delivery processes.

Lead and grow a high-performing platform engineering team to build Icario's next-generation healthcare platform. Provide technical direction, enforce engineering best practices, drive operational excellence, collaborate on product roadmaps, and ensure reliable CI/CD and cloud-based delivery to meet tight schedules and customer needs.

Lead engineering teams to deliver a scalable, cloud-based SaaS platform for clinical trials. Own roadmap execution, architecture guidance, and sprint/resource management. Drive implementation of predictive models and analytics, optimize Agile processes, manage Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, and communicate technical risks to stakeholders while fostering a high-performing team culture.

Lead technical strategy and engineering standards for a 50–150+ person organization. Embed production-grade generative AI and ML across the lifecycle, drive operational efficiency and delivery velocity, partner with product and executive stakeholders, call out architectural debt, and lead large-scale platform and modernization efforts.

Lead and grow multidisciplinary software, firmware, and hardware engineering teams for government-focused SDR products. Set engineering strategy, operating principles, and standards; align engineering with product and cross-functional stakeholders; drive hiring, talent development, and performance management; manage budgets, resource planning, and delivery of complex projects; engage customers and support business growth; and foster a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.

Lead multiple engineering teams building scalable, low-latency backend systems for user identity, integrations, activation, and real-time data processing. Set technical strategy, drive reliability and observability, mentor engineering managers, align engineering roadmaps with business goals, and ensure delivery of measurable outcomes.

The Director of Engineering will lead the strategy and execution of product infrastructure and release engineering, ensuring scalability and customer alignment.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.

Lead and grow a ~10-person global SRE team, drive reliability and cost-efficiency of multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, build self-service platform capabilities, establish SLOs/SLIs, improve alerting, own FinOps practices, and embed AI tooling into SRE workflows.

Lead the Interventions engineering pillar owning technical strategy and execution for early diagnosis, longitudinal care, and treatment. Scale data and ML infrastructure, improve clinical data accuracy, manage ML/LLM features, drive AI-assisted SDLC, and partner cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, and Clinical Operations to meet clinical performance goals.

Lead and manage electrical engineering for mission‑critical data center development across multiple projects and regions. Oversee design, standards, procurement, vendor coordination, risk resolution, and cross‑functional collaboration. Provide technical direction, mentor staff, support due diligence and master planning, present updates to executives, and drive scalable, compliant electrical solutions aligned with business objectives.

Lead and grow engineering teams for Mews' Front of House products, partnering with Product, Design, and Data to deliver guest recognition, personalization, automation, and connected guest journeys. Set technical direction, improve engineering excellence and operational health, drive cross-tribe collaboration, coach leaders, and translate strategy into measurable business outcomes like increased guest engagement and reduced time-to-serve.

Lead Booking engineering (five teams) to deliver high-scale scheduling, booking, communications, telehealth, and marketplace systems. Hire and grow engineering leaders, shape technical and AI strategy (agentic workflows, evals), drive high-velocity delivery with quality, partner with Product and Design, and scale the org through new product lines and rising customer demand.

Lead a global manufacturing engineering organization to standardize processes, drive lean continuous improvement, deploy automation and Industry 4.0 solutions (cobots, ML), and ensure safety, traceability, and zero-defect customer quality across international sites.

Lead a team of 10 engineers to architect and develop Node.js and Salesforce solutions, improving delivery schedules and performance metrics.

Lead the engineering of a platform for digital assets, focusing on scalability, security, and team growth. Directly manage the development of critical systems supporting millions of users.