Job Details

Overview

AccuWeather Technology organization seeks a highly motivated and technically accomplished leader to drive our middleware strategy and execution as Senior Director, Technology. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building world-class service platforms, system integrations, and high-performing middleware systems that support mission-critical functions like billing, login, product catalogs, push notifications, and more.

Position Summary

In this role, you will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating the middleware foundation that powers AccuWeather's digital experiences across web, mobile, and partner channels. We're looking for a collaborative, energetic leader with deep architectural knowledge, engineering discipline, and a passion for resilient, scalable software systems.

This position is required to be located onsite at AccuWeather's State College, PA Headquarters

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of AccuWeather's core middleware platform, including APIs, microservices, orchestration layers, authentication, rules engines, and system integrations.
• Define and execute the middleware technology roadmap in collaboration with Product and Engineering aligning technical initiatives with strategic business needs.
• Drive system-wide performance, scalability, and reliability, ensuring middleware services meet SLAs and enable exceptional customer experiences across all touchpoints.
• Guide middleware integration for critical enterprise systems such as billing, login, entitlements, and product catalog services, enabling seamless interactions across the digital ecosystem.
• Oversee the development and optimization of push notification infrastructure, enhancing real-time communication capabilities for global audiences.
• Champion modern engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability, and cloud-native design, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Lead, coach, and grow a geographically distributed engineering team, attracting and retaining top talent, and creating an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing culture.
• Establish and maintain relationships with external vendors and partners to ensure successful third-party integrations and maximize ROI on technology investments.
• Contribute to technology strategy, budget planning, and organizational alignment, ensuring middleware initiatives are effectively scoped, prioritized, and resourced.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; MS or equivalent experience preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 7+ years in technical leadership or management roles.
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams building and operating large-scale, distributed platforms and middleware architectures.
• Deep experience with enterprise integration patterns, RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging, mapping, and middleware platforms.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), microservices, containerization, and distributed systems design.
• Expertise in CDNs, caching strategies, and performance optimization techniques (e.g., Akamai).
• Experience with programming languages such as C#, Java, or similar, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and modern deployment frameworks.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and Agile development methodologies.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams of 20+, including mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Skilled in managing contracting vendors and consultants.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills; able to influence across organizational boundaries.

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. The pay transparency policy is available here.

AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to ...@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.