Associate Director - Digital Engineering

Position Overview

International Motors is seeking an innovative and strategic Associate Director, Digital Engineering to lead the engineering teams responsible for delivering and supporting critical digital platforms that power our customers, dealers, operations, and enterprise business capabilities.

This highly visible leadership role combines technology strategy, engineering leadership, organizational development, and digital transformation. The successful candidate will lead multiple engineering disciplines while defining the future architecture, modernization strategy, and technology roadmap for a portfolio of applications and platforms.

As a leader within our Digital Engineering organization, you will help shape the next generation of customer, dealer, sales, service, and operational solutions while building a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

If you are passionate about building exceptional teams, modernizing enterprise platforms, driving engineering excellence, and creating innovative digital solutions that serve thousands of users, we would love to talk with you.

Responsibilities

Associate Director, Digital Engineering is responsible for building organizational capability, developing talent, improving engineering maturity, and ensuring teams possess the skills necessary to support current and future technology needs.

Strategic Technology Leadership

• Define and execute the technology strategy and roadmap for a portfolio of critical applications and digital platforms.
• Drive modernization initiatives focused on cloud adoption, APIs, platform scalability, automation, and operational excellence.
• Partner with business, digital and technology leaders to align technology investments with strategic business objectives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and establish long-term architectural direction.
• Balance customer needs, business priorities, technical debt, security requirements, and platform sustainability.

Digital Engineering Leadership

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional digital engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and supporting applications.
• Oversee the design and implementation of application architecture and overall solution development.
• Partner with engineering teams to develop and implement a robust set of services, APIs, integrations, and reusable components that power digital products and business capabilities.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD automation, observability, automated testing, and platform reliability engineering.
• Establish technical standards, architecture governance, development frameworks, and engineering best practices.

Capability Leadership

Lead and develop teams across multiple engineering disciplines, including:

• Full Stack Engineering
• Configuration Engineering
• Application Development
• Platform Engineering
• Application Support
• DevOps
• Quality Assurance and Test Automation
• Production and System Operations
• API and Integration Services
• Technical Architecture

People Leadership

• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering talent.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative, and customer-focused engineering culture.
• Establish career development plans and succession strategies.
• Coach managers, technical leads, and engineers to achieve their full potential.
• Foster transparency, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 9 years of information systems/information technology experience
• At least 5 years of management experience

OR

• Master's degree and at least 7 years of information systems/information technology experience
• At least 5 years of management experience

OR

• At least 12 years of information systems/information technology experience
• At least 5 years of management experience

Additional Requirements

Desired Skills

Technology Leadership & Engineering Excellence

The Associate Director, Digital Engineering will provide leadership across a diverse technology ecosystem consisting of both commercial platforms and custom-developed applications.

Experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:

Enterprise Platforms

• Pega
• Syncron
• SAP
• Sitecore
• Coveo

Application Development

• .NET Core / .NET
• C#
• ASP.NET
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• React
• Angular
• REST APIs
• Microservices Architecture

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure DevOps
• Cloud-native architectures
• Containerization technologies
• API Management Platforms
• Integration Platforms

DevOps & Engineering Practices

• CI/CD Pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code
• Automated Testing
• Quality Engineering
• Release Management
• Observability & Monitoring
• Application Performance Management
• Security & Compliance Engineering

The ideal candidate understands both commercial enterprise platforms and modern custom development practices and can effectively guide teams operating across both environments.