Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FormativGroup is a company that helps organizations modernize their systems, data, and workflows. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering function behind a data platform for regulated enterprises, focusing on delivery, quality, and team growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead a distributed engineering team across platform/product engineering, connectors, QA, DevOps/infra, AI implementation, data governance, and support
- Own delivery, quality, release discipline, and execution of the technical roadmap
- Install engineering discipline where it's thin: automated testing, QA, CI/CD, release governance, and versioning
- Drive repeatable, perimeter-safe deployments, including containerization, infrastructure-as-code, secure deployment, and SOC 2 readiness
- Partner with the Chief Architect on the connector framework, canonical metadata model, architecture decisions, and product IP
- Build the team: assess current talent, retain the strong, hire the gaps, and align the team plan to the roadmap
- Push practical AI use across coding, review, testing, ops, and engineering productivity
Skills
- Engineering leadership experience; you have run and grown teams, managed engineers, owned delivery, and shipped real product
- Hands-on technical depth in data platforms, metadata, backend systems, or platform engineering; enough to earn the respect of strong engineers
- Experience building or rebuilding an engineering function from the ground up, especially in a startup or early-stage environment
- Experience installing testing, QA, CI/CD, release process, or quality practices where they did not already exist
- Experience leading distributed or offshore engineering teams across time zones
- Security and compliance literacy for regulated buyers, including SOC 2, audit logging, SSO, data security, or secure deployment
- Strong AI fluency, with concrete examples of how you use AI in your own work and across engineering teams
- Experience taking an early-stage product to enterprise-grade maturity
- Background in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or government
- Familiarity with perimeter/on-prem deployment, lineage, metadata, graph data, or migration impact-analysis problems
Company Overview
FormativGroup is an IT services and consulting firm that helps companies build application solutions and establish dynamic workflows. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in White Plains, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://formativgroup.io.