Engineering Director

Role Title: Engineering Director

Location: Amsterdam or United Kingdom

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Engineering Director is responsible for leading the engineering team and overseeing all delivery aspects of product development. This role involves strategic planning, talent management, and ensuring the successful execution of engineering projects. The director will collaborate with product management and UX to align engineering efforts with business goals, and drive innovation, and maintain high standards of quality and performance together with the Chief Software Architect. Key responsibilities include managing engineering processes, mentoring team members, global standardization, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

The role sits within our global business area Digital Intelligence. We use digital intelligence and deep human knowledge to create products and solutions in a holistic way. We empower our clients with agile, data-driven insights and technologies that complement our sustainable design, engineering and advisory expertise. We can confidently work in partnership to address global challenges from climate change and rapid urbanization, to increasing digitalization, socio-economic disruption and societal expectations head-on, all with the common goal of improving quality of life.

Role accountabilities:

• Leading and mentoring the global customer-facing engineering team. Overseeing the entire global client-facing engineering team, including hiring, training, (performance) managing engineering teams, and (process) standardization.

• Resource management. Managing engineering budget and allocation of resources across teams, including hubs.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration. Working closely with Tech to ensure strategic alignment on corporate goals, strategies, and ways of working.

• Driving software innovation and quality. Driving innovation by staying current with technological trends and emerging technologies. Ensuring the delivery of high-quality to our customers.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 8+ year's experience leading high-performance global software engineering teams of 50+ engineers

• Deep understanding of software development methodologies and technologies.

• Experience managing software engineering budgets and resource allocation for engineering teams spanning multiple customer-facing digital products.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.