Director, Product Software Architecture and Engineering

Director, Product Software Architecture and Engineering

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed. At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, accelerate the launch of digital services, deliver world‑class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment.

The Product Software and Platform Software team at Equinix builds next‑generation software products and architecture for our Equinix software platform and services offerings. We are looking for an experienced technology leader to lead our next‑gen customer‑facing digital experience platform engineering team. Located at our Singapore office, the successful candidate will be building a world‑class, globally distributed engineering team of highly skilled engineers and managers in Singapore and Sunnyvale, USA, and driving a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration across various engineering disciplines. They will, with their team, develop products and digital infrastructure to accelerate the digital transformation of Equinix’s Data Center Services end‑to‑end experience.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of software engineering managers and engineers, advocating a high‑performance culture

Define and implement software development methodologies, best practices, and standards to ensure the delivery of high‑quality software products whilst managing development budgets, schedules, and resources to meet project objectives

Responsible for optimizing resource allocation and resolving resource allocation challenges across the portfolio, managing vendor and resources for infrastructural needs

Guide and/or revise portfolio‑level plans, as needed, to ensure they completely gather all activities and eliminate duplicative efforts

Responsible for leading strategic planning, influencing and driving prioritization of initiatives with executive partners

Responsible for developing and presenting a roadmap of projects and initiatives in support of partner priorities to all levels of the organization

Participates in software architecture, design reviews and DevOps processes of various projects and products

Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other partners to ensure successful delivery of products, projects, and services

Drives executive partner communications with respective to portfolio status, and budget utilization

Monitors consistency to critical metrics and is responsible for resolving advanced issues and potential roadblocks, identifying and mitigating project execution risks

Is accountable for successful implementation of approved system improvement recommendations whilst ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, security policies, and data protection laws

Monitor industry trends, new technologies, and emerging practices to find opportunities for innovation and improvement

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with 10+ years of demonstrated ability in software engineering management

Strong leadership skills, with the ability to lead and empower a team of software engineers. Proven track record to lead software development budgets, schedules, and resources

Deep knowledge of software development methodologies and industry standards

Strong technical skills, with experience in software development using modern programming languages, frameworks, and platforms. Passionate about analyzing sophisticated problems and developing effective solutions

Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical partners

Experience working in an Agile software development environment

Experience working with cloud‑based technologies, microservices, and containers is a plus

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