Schedule

Mon - Fri: 8 AM - 5 PM (40 Hours)

What You’ll Do

Job Summary:

This role oversees the strategy, design, development, and lifecycle management of complex systems software. This role guides large-scale engineering areas in building foundational platforms that support enterprise applications, ensuring architectural integrity, operational excellence, and long-term technology evolution.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Provides strategic leadership for multiple software engineering teams responsible for architecting, developing, and enhancing systems‑level software, including operating environments, databases, and core platform utilities.

Shapes long-term technical direction, ensuring that system architectures meet business requirements for scalability, reliability, performance, and hardware compatibility.

Oversees requirements discovery, feasibility assessments, and solution scoping for enterprise-wide systems software initiatives, translating organizational goals into engineering roadmaps.

Ensures development teams follow strong engineering and coding practices, especially for low-level and systems programming across diverse hardware environments.

Drives excellence in systems software testing, validation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance, promoting high-quality release practices and sustainable support models.

Partners with product, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to align systems capabilities with operational and strategic needs.

Builds and mentors high-performing engineering leadership, fostering an inclusive culture that emphasizes innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Manages organizational resources, budgets, and vendor/technology partnerships to support delivery of complex software programs.

Monitors emerging technologies, industry trends, and hardware advancements, guiding adoption to maintain a modern and competitive platform environment.

What You’ll Need

- Education & Experience:
  - Required Education: Bachelor's degree in field relevant to role (or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree), advanced degree preferred.
  - Required Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience, 6+ years as a People Leader.
  - Extensive experience leading large-scale systems software engineering organizations, including architecture, development, testing, and deployment functions.
  - Deep technical expertise in systems programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Rust) and experience with operating systems, hardware integration, or platform engineering.
  - Proven ability to develop and execute strategic technology plans and deliver complex, multi‑year programs.
  - Strong leadership capabilities with demonstrated success in managing and developing engineering leaders and senior technical talent.
  - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
  - Demonstrated commitment to engineering rigor, operational excellence, and sustainable delivery practices

What We Do

DCU is the largest credit union headquartered in New England – serving more than one million members in all 50 states. With over 1,700 team members, we strive to make DCU a great place to work with an excellent work-life balance, and a community that cares.

DCU is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity, inclusion, and equity at our company. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

If you’re applying for a job and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to careers@dcu.org and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

DCU is not currently offering Visa transfer/ sponsorship for this position.

Expected Pay Range

$184,000 - $220,500