Director, Research and Development
# Director, Research and Development **Harris** · Georgia · `Remote` · `Full Time` 💼 **Уровень роли:** `Director` 💰 **Компенсация:** `$125,000 – $135,000` 🕒 **Статус:** *Опубликовано: сегодня* · *Источник: Himalayas (JSON API)* --- ### Top Skills & Match 🎯 **Ключевой стек роли:** `[Research-And-Development-Director]` `[Director-of-Engineering]` `[Software-Development-Director]` `[Technical-Director]` `[R&D-Manager]` `[Director-Of-Research-And-Development]` `[Director-Of-R&D]` `[R&D-Director]` `[Director-Of-Research]` --- ### About the Role Key Responsibilities - Define and execute the technology and development strategy for the LocalGov business unit. - Provide leadership and oversight for all software development activities across eight product lines and approximately 40+ development professionals. - Advance LocalGov's development teams along the Harris AI-SDLC maturity model - from AI-assisted work, to AI-directed work, to agentic delivery in which AI agents own bounded work end to end while engineers set goals, define guardrails, and review outcomes. - Lead modernization efforts across IBM i, RPG, and modern technology platforms while preserving customer stability and business continuity. - Establish engineering standards, development methodologies, and governance processes to improve quality, predictability, and delivery performance. - Partner with Product Management, Client Services, Professional Services, Sales, and Business Unit leadership to align development priorities with customer and business needs. - Develop and maintain multi-year product and technology roadmaps across the LocalGov portfolio. - Build, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and technical teams while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. - Oversee development capacity planning, resource allocation, and prioritization across competing initiatives and product lines. - Use AI development tools personally and daily, and champion their use across the organization - including GitHub Copilot, Project Bob, large language models, and agentic coding tools - holding a current, practical command of what they can and cannot do rather than relying on secondhand reporting. - Establish and monitor KPIs that measure outcomes rather than activity - cycle time, development throughput, escaped defect and escalation rates, delivery predictability, customer satisfaction, and development cost as a percentage of revenue - and report AI delivery maturity and the business outcomes it produces on a recurring executive cadence. - Own the LocalGov AI delivery-maturity roadmap across all eight product lines, applied stage by stage across the software lifecycle rather than as a single business-unit rating, and deliver against the maturity targets agreed with executive leadership. - Stand up the governance that makes delegated agent work safe, including review gates, validation, and security review of AI-generated code, with quality standards applied equally to human-written and AI-generated code. - Make the LocalGov codebase and delivery pipeline accessible to AI agents through documentation, test coverage, CI/CD, and structured context. - Apply AI directly to the IBM i and RPG estate - legacy code comprehension, documentation generation, and modernization analysis - as a primary mechanism for preserving knowledge held by an aging and retiring RPG skillset. - Build the tooling and training program that moves engineers from AI-assisted work, to AI-directed work, to supervised agent execution, and give them the access and time to get there. - Lead strategic modernization and transformation initiatives including cloud adoption, customer-facing AI solutions, and automation efforts. - Ensure appropriate architecture, security, compliance, and technical governance practices are maintained across all products. - Serve as the executive escalation point for critical development issues and strategic customer initiatives. - Develop succession planning and knowledge preservation strategies for aging legacy technology skillsets. - Manage OpEx Financial Forecast for R&D department to include monthly forecast updates, reporting on Monthly Business Unit Review Calls, & attendance/participation Annual Businesss Strategy Meeting. - Attendance to key customer events in markets where large-scale development motions are occurring Required Qualifications - 10+ years of progressive software development leadership experience. - 5+ years of experience leading managers, technical leaders, and software development teams within a multi-product software organization. - Demonstrated experience leading software modernization initiatives involving both legacy and modern technology platforms. - Experience managing geographically distributed development teams and cross-functional technical organizations. - Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, Agile methodologies, and engineering best practices. - Experience with enterprise software delivery, product strategy, and technical roadmap development. - Proven ability to align technology investments and development priorities with business objectives and customer needs. - Demonstrated experience driving organizational change and technology transformation initiatives. - Experience implementing or leading AI-assisted development practices, automation initiatives, or engineering productivity improvements. - Demonstrated hands-on use of AI development tools in daily work, with a clear point of view on where they help, where they fail, and how quickly that is changing. - Experience raising an engineering organization's way of working from individual AI assistance toward agentic, human-on-the-loop delivery, including the governance and validation that makes it safe. - Exceptional communication, organizational, stakeholder management, and executive leadership skills. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with IBM i, AS400, RPG, COBOL, or legacy platform modernization initiatives. - Experience with local government, public sector, ERP, tax, financial, records management, or government technology solutions. - Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Project Bob, LLMs, or similar technologies. - Experience establishing engineering KPIs, delivery metrics, and AI adoption measurement programs. - Experience leading engineering organizations through large-scale modernization or digital transformation efforts. - Familiarity with cloud technologies, APIs, automation frameworks, and modern application architectures. - Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams across multiple product lines. - Experience integrating AI into engineering workflows, customer solutions, or business operations. - Experience with Jira, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery methodologies. - MBA, advanced technical experience, or equivalent executive leadership experience preferred. Performance Measurement Success in this role is measured on the following: - AI-SDLC maturity: development teams advancing toward Level 3 of the Harris AI maturity model, measured stage by stage across the software lifecycle and by product line, rather than as a single business-unit rating. - Team capability: a training and upskilling program in place and taken up, moving engineers from AI-assisted work, to AI-directed work, to supervised agent execution. - Continuity and succession depth: no product line dependent on a single individual, with documented knowledge, cross-coverage between engineers, and succession identified for every critical technical role. - Retention: key engineering talent retained across all eight product lines. - Modernization progress: a published modernization plan covering the legacy IBM i, RPG, and COBOL estate, and demonstrated progress against it, with knowledge captured in durable documentation rather than individual memory. - Financial performance: R&D spend held to plan, with demonstrable optimization of development cost against delivered output. - Cross-functional standing: Product Management, Client Services, Professional Services, and Sales report a working, transparent relationship with R&D. Salary range: $125,000 - $135,000 USD per year. Originally posted on Himalayas
- Research-And-Development-Director
- Director-of-Engineering
- Software-Development-Director
- Technical-Director
- R&D-Manager
- Director-Of-Research-And-Development
- Director-Of-R&D
- R&D-Director
- Director-Of-Research
Наблюдалась 2026-10-16, впервые 2026-10-16, источник — Himalayas (JSON API).