Director of Engineering

at Epiq Solutions in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Director of Engineering

Company Background

Epiq Solutions develops cutting-edge software-defined radio (SDR) products and processing solutions to enable spectrum dominance for maritime, land, air, and space domains. With 15 years serving government and commercial enterprise customers and 30K+ devices fielded to more than 500 customers, Epiq Solutions is a trusted partner with a proven heritage of delivering open architecture products in radically small form factors where time-to-market, cost, and performance are critical for mission success.

For more information, visit https://epiqsolutions.com

Introduction

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Director of Engineering to lead our software, firmware, and hardware engineering teams building government-focused software-defined radios and applications. The ideal candidate is an accomplished engineering leader with a proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing organizations through growth, change, and increasing complexity. Success in this role requires exceptional people leadership, organizational leadership, stakeholder management, and a drive for organization and business growth, combined with sufficient technical depth to guide engineering strategy and decision-making. Our team culture strikes a balance of high performance and high integrity, while remaining humble and pragmatic, and we seek an engineering leader who thrives in this environment. The candidate must be data-driven, well-organized, and motivated to help their team thrive, execute, and grow.

Job Responsibilities

Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

• Establish and communicate a clear vision, priorities, and operating principles for the Engineering organization. 
• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team through coaching, feedback, accountability, and succession planning. 
• Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and professional development. 
• Lead organizational change initiatives while maintaining team engagement, alignment, and productivity. 
• Establish clear performance expectations and proactively address performance, accountability, and development opportunities. 
• Drive employee engagement, retention, and leadership development across the Engineering organization. 
• Serve as a trusted partner to executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Monitor and improve organizational health through employee engagement, talent development, retention, and effective leadership practices.
• Develop an onboarding and mentorship program to enable new employees to rapidly integrate and contribute to Epiq’s success.

Engineering Strategy, Execution & Delivery

• Lead and develop a team of engineering managers and engineers across multiple disciplines, ensuring organizational effectiveness, leadership accountability, talent development, and successful execution of engineering objectives.
• Work closely with our product management team to ensure there is alignment between our product roadmap priorities and the engineering execution within our project teams.
• Experience engaging with customers to understand requirements, communicate technical solutions, and support business growth.
• Partner with Product Management, Program Management, Operations, Sales, and Executive Leadership to align priorities, communicate tradeoffs, and ensure successful execution of business objectives.
  
  
  
  Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
  
  

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