Senior Director, Application Engineering

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $220k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Skillsoft

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Education • Enterprise • SaaS

Skillsoft is a company that provides enterprise learning solutions designed to rapidly develop employee skills and close skill gaps. The company offers various customized learning programs, including leadership and business skills, technology skills, compliance and ethics, and AI skills. Skillsoft's learning platforms, such as Codecademy for Enterprise and Skillsoft Percipio, enable organizations to transform their workforces through mentorship, coaching, and instructor-led training. With a focus on integrating learning options into organizational frameworks and supporting workforce development with assessments and reports, Skillsoft aims to prepare teams for the evolving demands of the digital era. More than 12,000 organizations trust Skillsoft for their employee learning and development needs.

📋 Description

• Own engineering delivery and operational health for the enterprise applications portfolio supporting critical business capabilities and processes • Translate approved business solutions into scalable, maintainable engineering execution plans • Ensure delivery aligns to business priorities, architecture standards, security requirements, and governance frameworks • Partner with PMO and Solutions leaders on prioritization, capacity planning, sequencing, and execution transparency • Drive consistent execution that balances run, enhancement, and transformation initiatives • Lead end-to-end lifecycle management, including build, release, operate, enhance, and retire • Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of production systems • Oversee incident, problem, and change management processes • Maintain a strong focus on operational resilience, uptime, and business continuity • Drive structured lifecycle planning including upgrades, patching, and decommissioning of legacy systems • Reduce application complexity through rationalization, standardization, and modernization • Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity, quality, and cycle time • Enable automation-first delivery across testing, deployment, and operational processes • Partner across teams to streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and lower total cost of ownership • Identify and scale opportunities for AI and automation within enterprise applications in a controlled manner • Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture, security, and engineering standards • Support compliance requirements including audit readiness (e.g., SOX where applicable) • Maintain disciplined release, change, and environment controls • Ensure solutions are well-documented, testable, and supportable • Partner with Security and Risk teams to proactively mitigate technical and operational risks • Build and lead a high-performing, modern engineering organization • Develop a skills-based team with strong capabilities across platforms, automation, quality, and AI • Define clear roles, responsibilities, goals, and development plans • Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and enterprise thinking • Develop talent that can operate across technologies and business domains • Build strong, trust-based partnerships with business stakeholders and cross-functional IT teams • Ensure delivery outcomes translate into measurable business impact • Support adoption and value realization post-implementation • Contribute to a management cadence that tracks outcomes beyond deployment • Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders on progress, risks, and value delivered

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional application engineering, delivery, or enterprise systems leadership experience • Proven track record leading engineering teams supporting enterprise applications (e.g., ERP, CRM, HRIS, finance, or similar platforms) • Experience operating in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment requiring prioritization trade-offs • Strong experience across application lifecycle management, release governance, and production operations • Experience driving modernization, simplification, and automation initiatives • Experience introducing or scaling AI-assisted development and engineering practices • Demonstrated ability to partner across business, architecture, PMO, data, and security teams

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • paid time off