R&D Global Director

🔥 14 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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FreeBalance

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1988

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $3M Series B on 2002-12

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

FreeBalance is a global company specializing in providing Public Financial Management (PFM) solutions, advisory services, and training to governments worldwide. The company aims to enhance fiscal transparency, improve public sector effectiveness, and promote good governance through its innovative Government Resource Planning (GRP) software, the FreeBalance Accountability Suite™. This software is uniquely designed for government use, supporting a wide range of functions including budgeting, expenditure management, treasury, and civil service management. With over 40 years of experience, FreeBalance has become a trusted partner for national and state governments seeking to modernize and reform their financial management systems, thereby driving digital transformation and combating corruption. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, FreeBalance operates globally with projects in regions such as Micronesia, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Tunisia.

📋 Description

• Lead the global Java software development organization across multiple engineering teams • Provide leadership, direction, and accountability across engineering managers, technical leads, and individual contributors • Manage the design, development, modernization, and timely delivery of enterprise software solutions • Align delivery with customer commitments, business objectives, and technical standards • Balance immediate delivery priorities with long-term engineering and platform modernization • Drive engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement • Engage global stakeholders in support of FreeBalance’s strategic technology roadmap • Establish and sustain a high-performing global Development organization • Improve software quality, development efficiency, build stability, and release reliability • Manage competing priorities, technical debt, and complex enterprise delivery requirements • Build partnerships across R&D, Professional Services, QA, DevOps, IT, and other business functions • Foster technical excellence, ownership, professional development, and continuous improvement

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical discipline • Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in Java software development • At least 5 years in a leadership or managerial role (the posting's qualifications section also states at least 10 years) • Success leading complex software delivery initiatives in large-scale enterprise environments • Experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones and cultures • Senior organizational leadership, strategic planning, and delivery accountability • Experience leading engineering process improvements, organizational transformation, or modernization initiatives • Strong expertise in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and related technologies • Experience with JSF/MyFaces, React, or similar front-end frameworks • Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, SQL, Hibernate, and JPA • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes • Experience with Agile/Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, and Git • Understanding of software architecture and enterprise integration patterns • Familiarity with enterprise application IT infrastructure • Experience with monolithic, microservices, and event-driven architectures • Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and modern software delivery tooling • Understanding of source control, branching strategies, automated testing, code reviews, build systems, and release management • Experience with mature enterprise software platforms, legacy technologies, and modernization • Experience managing projects aligned with CMMI Level 2 or higher • Ability to manage concurrent development projects and competing priorities • Experience establishing engineering processes, standards, quality controls, metrics, and QA practices • Excellent problem-solving, organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills • Ability to lead, motivate, coach, and develop engineering teams • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills • Sound judgment, resilience, adaptability, and decision-making skills • Ability to work effectively with geographically distributed teams and diverse stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive employer dedicated to building a diverse workforce • Accommodation of applicants’ needs under respective labour law throughout all recruitment stages • Professional development • Continuous improvement culture