Duties:
• Lead all engineering teams within the Product Technology organization;
• Quickly assess and provide direction on technology challenges within the teams in their organization;
• Grow the culture of the engineering teams to one driven by curiosity, technical excellence, and a desire to benefit Forrester’s business;
• Work regularly with executive leadership to understand our evolving business objectives and ensure that the engineering organization is building platform-driven products to support these objectives;
• Lead 3-5 collaborative teams built of innovative engineers with strong problem-solving skills;
• Interview and hire software engineers;
• Mentor, review code, and grow the skills of the engineering managers that lead their teams;
• Establish software development goals, then drive Agile development and architecture best practices;
• Lead the technical design and implementation of a wide variety of projects;
• Partner with the product management and other technology leaders to set a vision, establish a strategy, and execute on product goals;
• Communicate goals with engineering managers as well as executive leadership; and
• Delegate project tasks across teams and across organizations.

Telecommuting permitted up to 40%

Requirements: Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field followed by five years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a Director, Software Engineering-related occupation.

In alternative, employer will accept a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field followed by three years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a Director, Software Engineering-related occupation.

Position requires demonstrable experience in the following:
• Leading Agile product development teams composed of software engineers building out web front ends, middleware, data pipelines, testing suites, and DevOps;
• Utilizing cloud-native development experience in web technologies built on AWS, Azure, or GCP services;
• Delivering API-first, platform-first architecture and development solutions.
• Team and people leadership. Lead teams and individual contributors by example, enabling them to grow as an organization and within their careers.
• Managing vendors as they integrate in with development teams, and augment complete features of platforms being built.
• Building technology solutions on both traditional MVC and event-driven, and serverless models.

Telecommuting permitted up to 40%

How to Apply: Email resume, including job history to Caitlin Busconi at cbusconi@forrester.com referencing FR 12122.5. EOE. Forrester Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.