Director Software Development Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Your Impact:

The Director of Software Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for driving the development and delivery of Rauland's enterprise and platform software solutions. This role leads multiple software engineering teams and plays a critical role in shaping technical strategy, driving execution excellence, and ensuring the delivery of reliable, secure, and scalable software in a regulated healthcare environment.

Reporting into the DVP of Engineering, the Director partners closely with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Validation & Verification, Cybersecurity, and Quality to translate business strategy into highimpact software outcomes. This is an opportunity to lead missioncritical platforms that serve as the backbone for nurse call, enterprise reporting, interoperability, and emerging SaaS and cloudbased solutions.

What You'll Do:

• Provide strong people and technical leadership for multiple enterprise software engineering teams, fostering a highperformance, collaborative culture and removing execution or organizational barriers.
• Lead the planning, prioritization, and delivery of complex, regulated healthcare software initiatives, balancing scope, quality, timelines, and resources to achieve predictable release outcomes.
• Own architectural execution aligned to systemlevel technical direction and product roadmaps, supporting scalable, secure, and sustainable enterprise and platform solutions.
• Partner crossfunctionally with Product Management, Systems Engineering, V&V, Cybersecurity, Quality, Operations, and PMO to ensure integrated planning, release readiness, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.
• Drive release excellence and operational rigor, including deployment readiness, quality standards, upgrade paths, and coordination across enterprise, serverside, and platform software.
• Work closely with Support, QA, and Engineering teams to troubleshoot complex field issues, guide technical escalations, and prevent recurrence through rootcause and systemic improvements.
• Establish and evolve DevOps and CI/CD practices, including automation, deployment tooling, and release governance to support reliability, scalability, and future SaaS/cloud offerings.
• Develop and mentor engineering leaders and senior talent through coaching, performance management, succession planning, and career and technical leadership development.
• Support interoperability and integration strategy by ensuring enterprise software aligns with standardsbased healthcare interfaces, reporting, and internal/external system integrations.
• Promote effective communication and customer engagement, enabling engineering teams to support customerfacing discussions and critical escalations as needed.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, or Software Engineering required (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise software engineering, including leadership of multiple teams or engineering managers.
• Demonstrated success delivering regulated products in medical, safetycritical, or industrial environments.
• Strong working knowledge of Quality System Regulations (QSR) with proven partnership and collaboration with Quality Assurance and Validation & Verification (V&V) teams.
• Experience with modern product development practices, including Agile and Lean methodologies, test automation, and DevOps / CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven ability to lead and deliver a portfolio of concurrent software initiatives with predictable execution, quality, and release outcomes.
• Demonstrated success improving estimation accuracy, planning rigor, and execution discipline across distributed or matrixed engineering teams.
• Experience contributing to business and technology strategy and translating strategy into actionable, executable software plans.
• Experience managing departmental budgets, capacity planning, and resource allocation in a complex engineering organization.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior crossfunctional leaders and external partners.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

Why Us?

Rauland, a division of AMETEK, is a business unit in the Measurement, Communications and Technologies division of AMETEK. We are a leader in integrated communications technology, designing and manufacturing Nurse Call Systems for the medical industry and school critical communication systems for the education K-12 market. 

Website: www.rauland.com