Director, Software Engineering

• This position will play a key role in advancing our AI
• journey by driving modernization and efficiency across the delivery lifecycle.
• This role is focused on helping engineering teams apply AI in practical,
• measurable ways to improve delivery speed, enhance quality, and reduce
• operational overhead across development and operational workflows.
• This is a hands-on technical leadership role that bridges
• strategy and execution. You will partner closely with engineering,
• architecture, security, and delivery teams to design, prove, implement, and
• scale AI-enabled capabilities that strengthen software delivery outcomes. While
• the primary focus is on advancing software engineering practices and
• AI-assisted development, the role will also support broader AI adoption across
• the organization where it aligns to delivery and operational impact.
• The successful candidate combines deep software engineering
• expertise, hands-on experience applying AI technologies to real-world
• engineering challenges, strong delivery discipline, and practical change
• leadership. You will help teams adopt AI responsibly by developing reusable
• playbooks, implementation patterns, and guardrails, along with validation
• approaches and human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure AI-enabled solutions are
• secure, compliant, high-quality, and maintainable, aligned with MCAP’s vision,
• mission, objectives, and values.
• Strategy and Planning
• Participates and provides input in the creation of 1 to 3
• year IT strategic plans (Enterprise and
• Business Unit specific)
• Ensures applications meets business unit expectations
• Facilitates and monitors the Application Architectural
• Decisions - 1 to 5 years
• Fosters strong working relationships within the various
• internal IT teams and Business unit teams to understand future direction of
• initiatives.
• Partners with the Line of Business in order to deliver
• Business Systems Applications that meet current and future business needs
• Accountable for full life cycle of IT delivery for the
• Business Unit projects
• Responsible for timely, on budget delivery of IT components
• of projects (major and tactical) as per the priorities set by the LOB and/or

Resource Allocation Committee

• Liaise with Architecture and Infrastructure teams to deploy
• and maintain solutions
• Manages business units requests, that are approved and
• prioritized projects
• Acquisition and

Deployment

• Direct research on emerging application development software
• products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development
• efforts, including LLMs, agent frameworks, coding agents, and developer
• copilots.
• Lead the evaluation and selection of AI development tools
• and platforms, including build-versus-buy decisions, model evaluation, and
• partnerships with external AI providers.
• Performs detailed technical design of proposed
• solutions.
• Evaluates relevant risks and determines mitigation
• strategies.
• Identify requirements and manage the procurement process and
• vendor selection for new technologies.

Operational Management

• Champion the company’s Vision, Mission and Values as set out
• in the Strategic Plan both internally and externally within the industry.
• Recruit and develop the right people that believe in and
• reflect in their behavior MCAP’s Values and culture.
• Establish, monitor and communicate performance standards to
• direct reports reinforcing individual results, work quality, continuous
• improvement, teamwork and achievement of MCAP’s objectives.
• Educate, coach and counsel staff to ensure they are
• empowered to effectively handle their roles in a confident and professional
• manner.
• Establish and maintain an effective system of communication
• throughout the business unit.
• Ensure a continuous improvement culture is established and
• encouraged.
• Assist in the definition of Corporate Guiding Principles,
• Architectural Standards and Design and the approved Solution Delivery Toolkit,
• incorporating AI-assisted development standards and patterns.
• Assist with the strategic advancement of IT

Methodologies

Assist with the selection of MCAP’s Solution Delivery

Toolkit

• Determine, define and support the metrics and measures
• required to ensure the success of MCAP IT overall
• Work with LOB management to set and manage the Information
• Technology budget for the Business Unit
• Ensure compliance with standards, procedures and
• methodologies and work with auditors to assess same
• Capture, track and report IT Measures and Metrics
• Work with Project Budgets and System Budgets
• Signing Authority (based on authority matrix)