Lucas has a challenging career opportunity for a well-rounded, passionate engineering leader with an entrepreneurial drive and who is up-to-date with technology and industry best practices.

A strong business acumen is equally as important as technical capabilities. The ideal candidate will have created software in a commercial environment, led teams of software engineers, and managed substantial, simultaneous projects with firm fixed price contracts / customer deadlines. A background in warehousing and distribution, while not essential, is helpful.

From a technical perspective, the Director of Software Engineering - Projects will be well-versed in .NET, with exposure to modern web technologies like JavaScript and Angular as well as database technologies such as MS SQL and Oracle.

Position Responsibilities:

• Mentor and grow the Applications Engineering group, a mid-size high-performing, distributed software engineering team.
• Interact directly with customers to thoroughly understand customer needs and business drivers, and to manage customer support technical escalations and requests for modifications to their software solution.
• Foster and support a culture of innovation and excellence within the engineering organization.
• Oversee the support and staffing of multiple customer projects, balancing large- and small-scale projects.
• Manage the sales & operations planning process within Lucas to ensure that engineering capacity aligns with sales projections and financial revenue models.
• Champion and establish software discipline standards for the Applications group. Maximize quality, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Optimize engineer performance by driving efficient and effective Agile software development process.
• Develop operational process design and workflows and then drive the design decisions needed to achieve user-friendly, high-performance solutions.
• Continue to develop and share industry/domain expertise and business acumen.
• Reporting to the Vice President of Project Operations, contribute to the creation of infrastructure and processes to support rapid organizational growth.
• Attract, develop and retain high performing individuals. Set goals to measure and evaluate performance.
• Produce and manage to all customer-facing engineering estimates.
• Establish project schedule and assign resources to projects.
• Work with cross-functional team (Sales, Tech Pre-Sale, Project Management, QA, etc.) throughout the customer engagement process.
• Maintain relationships with key customers.