Director, Research and Development

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Harris Computer

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1993

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Harris Computer is a company that provides mission-critical software solutions across various industries, including the public sector, healthcare, utilities, and private sector verticals. They focus on acquiring businesses with growth potential, managing them effectively, and building them for future success. Harris Computer serves over 100,000 customers with a global presence in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, employing over 12,000 people. Their mission is to empower customers to deliver on their goals by offering tailored software and services.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the technology and development strategy for the LocalGov business unit • Provide leadership and oversight for software development across eight product lines and approximately 40+ development professionals • Advance development teams along the Harris AI-SDLC maturity model toward agentic delivery • Lead modernization across IBM i, RPG, and modern technology platforms while preserving customer stability and business continuity • Establish engineering standards, development methodologies, governance processes, and quality practices • Partner with Product Management, Client Services, Professional Services, Sales, and business-unit leadership • Develop and maintain multi-year product and technology roadmaps • Build, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and technical teams • Oversee capacity planning, resource allocation, and prioritization across initiatives and product lines • Use AI development tools personally and daily and champion their organizational adoption • Establish and monitor outcome-based KPIs and report AI delivery maturity and business outcomes to executive leadership • Own the LocalGov AI delivery-maturity roadmap across all eight product lines and software lifecycle stages • Establish governance, review gates, validation, and security review for AI-generated code • Improve documentation, test coverage, CI/CD, and structured context for AI-agent access to the codebase and delivery pipeline • Apply AI to IBM i and RPG legacy code comprehension, documentation generation, and modernization analysis • Build tooling and training to move engineers toward supervised agent execution • Lead cloud adoption, customer-facing AI, automation, and strategic modernization initiatives • Ensure architecture, security, compliance, and technical governance across products • Serve as executive escalation point for critical development issues and strategic customer initiatives • Develop succession planning and knowledge-preservation strategies for aging legacy technology skillsets • Manage R&D OpEx financial forecasts, monthly updates, business review reporting, and annual strategy meeting participation • Attend key customer events in relevant markets

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive software development leadership experience • 5+ years of experience leading managers, technical leaders, and software development teams within a multi-product software organization • Demonstrated experience leading software modernization initiatives involving both legacy and modern technology platforms • Experience managing geographically distributed development teams and cross-functional technical organizations • Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, Agile methodologies, and engineering best practices • Experience with enterprise software delivery, product strategy, and technical roadmap development • Proven ability to align technology investments and development priorities with business objectives and customer needs • Demonstrated experience driving organizational change and technology transformation initiatives • Experience implementing or leading AI-assisted development practices, automation initiatives, or engineering productivity improvements • Demonstrated hands-on use of AI development tools in daily work, with a clear point of view on where they help, where they fail, and how quickly that is changing • Experience raising an engineering organization's way of working from individual AI assistance toward agentic, human-on-the-loop delivery, including the governance and validation that makes it safe • Exceptional communication, organizational, stakeholder management, and executive leadership skills • Preferred: Experience with IBM i, AS400, RPG, COBOL, or legacy platform modernization initiatives • Preferred: Experience with local government, public sector, ERP, tax, financial, records management, or government technology solutions • Preferred: Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Project Bob, LLMs, or similar technologies • Preferred: Experience establishing engineering KPIs, delivery metrics, and AI adoption measurement programs • Preferred: Experience leading engineering organizations through large-scale modernization or digital transformation efforts • Preferred: Familiarity with cloud technologies, APIs, automation frameworks, and modern application architectures • Preferred: Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams across multiple product lines • Preferred: Experience integrating AI into engineering workflows, customer solutions, or business operations • Preferred: Experience with Jira, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery methodologies • Preferred: MBA, advanced technical experience, or equivalent executive leadership experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Attendance to key customer events in markets where large-scale development motions are occurring