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Director of Engineering
Akamai
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Overview:
The team is focused on developing new, innovative mobile oriented products that leverage Akamai’s unique visibility into Internet traffic and Akamai’s ability to deliver a quality of experience to web and media customers.
As a Director of Engineering you will be responsible for:
• Lead a team of senior engineers and senior managers who architect and design new mobile products and end to end services which Akamai’s customers find valuable!
• Collaborate across product functions as well as with platform oriented functions such as Information Security, Network Ops, and other service functions supplied by other Bus.
• Lead design discussions and lead the development of software which enriches the product feature set while maintaining robustness, scalability and fault-tolerance.
• Leverage a commanding knowledge of customer business challenges to ensure products are designed to meet customers biggest needs.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering to ensure product development is smooth while evolving existing designs as needed.
• Lead not by title, but by technical persuasion.
In the Emerging Mobile Products Business Unit, the successful candidate will manage an extraordinarily talented and knowledgeable team which designs new mobile focused products and services. These products and services are primarily sold to network operators and content providers in order to enhance the Quality of Experience of their customers’ web and media consumption. The successful candidate will work closely with the VP of Engineering to ensure the end-to-end product delivery is successful. Further, this position requires the highest level of ability to work cross functionally with other BUs and business functions in order to achieve the goals set by the VP of Engineering. The position requires a high degree of creativity and requires the ability to actively participate in the architectural process as well as manage it. Reports to this position are expected to rapidly prototype concepts and designs while staying keeping on an aggressive release schedule and roadmap. This requires the Director of Engineering to understand how to take prototype efforts and rapidly convert them to scalable products. To that end, the director must feel comfortable with both time to market oriented goals and goals which have deliberate ambiguity. Excellent communication skills are of singular importance for this role.
Qualifications
Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements:
• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or
• 10 years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree or
• 7 years of relevant experience and a PhD
Required Skills:
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years as a Director of Engineering or above whose span of control is at or above 20 engineers
• 7+ years of experience in software development management
• 3+ years of prior, demonstrable experience as a systems level architect, ideally with experience in mobile, cellular, networking, or OTT mobile service development and deployment
Desired Skills:
• Hands on and willing to drive and participate in the architecture, design and development of new features
• Exceptional written and verbal technical and interpersonal communications skills with demonstrable depth of experience in communicating with internal groups such including Product Management, Services, and Operations.
• Understands the difference between a prototype and a product and needs to be able to rapidly transition from prototyping to productization when the time is right.