Director, Software Engineering and Delivery

Director, Software Engineering & Delivery

What does it mean to be a BrinkerHead? We play like a team, take pride in our culture and seek every opportunity to make people feel special. Life is short. Work happy .

At Brinker, we connect, serve and give to create the best life for our Team Members, Guests and community. Through our cultural beliefs, Brinker empowers its Team Members to positively impact our 4 Key Results : Engaging Team Members, Bringing Back Guests, Growing Sales and Increasing Profits.

Job Summary

Brinker is seeking a Director, Software Engineering & Delivery to lead engineering teams supporting Brinker's multi-brand Digital Guest Experience (DGE) platform, including Chilis.com and Maggianos.com.

This leader turns prioritized work into achievable commitments based on team capacity, technical feasibility, dependencies, and risk. The Director leads day-to-day execution and is accountable for predictable delivery, engineering quality, and reliable releases.

Your Key Job Functions

- Lead day-to-day engineering execution, managing priorities, progress, blockers, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs. - Own team capacity and delivery planning, turning prioritized work into achievable commitments based on capacity, estimates, technical feasibility, dependencies, and risk. - Lead and develop the engineering team, setting clear expectations and providing coaching. - Stay close to the engineering work by participating in technical discussions, reviewing implementation approaches and code, and helping resolve technical blockers. - Improve delivery predictability using delivery metrics and retrospectives to strengthen estimation, flow, and follow-through on commitments. - Own quality, CI/CD, and releases, ensuring teams can build, test, deploy, and release software safely and reliably.