Sr Director of Software Engineering-HR Domain

Role

Senior Director of Software Engineering within Corporate Technology – HR & Benefits Technology, owning technology strategy and delivery across Global Benefits, Global Mobility, Business Travel, and Expatriate Payroll & Tax. Lead cross-functional engineering teams, vendor ecosystems, and enterprise migrations from legacy HR systems to modern cloud-native architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technology strategy and delivery for benefits, mobility, travel, and expatriate payroll & tax across multiple jurisdictions and currencies.
• Manage a 125+ global benefits vendor ecosystem, including vendor onboarding, application ownership, risk and performance governance.
• Drive migration of U.S. pension from legacy PeopleSoft to modern, secure, cloud-native technologies with strong data integrity and controls.
• Deliver end-to-end integration and automation of benefits data into and out of payroll to enable touchless payroll across countries and regulatory regimes.
• Set engineering standards across custom full-stack development, serverless and cloud-native designs on AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Pipeline as Code, and automated CI/CD.
• Embed security- and compliance-by-design into pipelines (automated controls, security scanning, policy-as-code) to support SOX, tax/statutory reporting, data residency, segregation of duties, and access management.
• Lead adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering, AI-assisted development (“vibe coding”), and MCP-based conversational interfaces with governance and guardrails.
• Interface with senior leadership to align on risk, regulatory, operational, cost, and modernization priorities.
• Hire, develop, and scale large cross-functional engineering teams and set portfolio-level standards for release governance, resilience, testing, and incident response.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 10+ years applied experience and 5+ years leading technologists.
• Deep experience delivering technology across benefits, payroll, mobility, or HR domains in large, regulated global enterprises.
• Hands-on and leadership expertise in Java and Python on AWS, including serverless and cloud-native patterns.
• Full-stack capability including modern front-end development (e.g., React, TypeScript) and API-first design (GraphQL, REST).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), Pipeline as Code, and automated CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), with embedded security and controls.
• Proven delivery of integrations between vendor systems and payroll and experience migrating legacy platforms (PeopleSoft) to cloud with strong data controls.
• Experience managing large vendor ecosystems and leading influence across matrixed organizations.
• Experience defining governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models and strong understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and tool/function-calling backends for agentic or conversational interfaces.
• Experience with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted development tools in approved enterprise contexts.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and GitOps-based deployment on AWS.
• Familiarity with Global Mobility platforms (e.g., Sirva) and expatriate payroll/business travel/tax models (e.g., KPMG).
• Experience modernizing enterprise integrations using API-led and event-driven patterns, interface test automation, and observability.
• Executive-level communication and experience influencing senior executives.