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Tracx TMS is seeking a strategic and proactive Director of Research & Development to lead our engineering and product delivery efforts. Reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with the Group CTO, this role will require a hands-on, action-oriented leader who can drive innovation and execution across multiple development teams.

You will be responsible for shaping the overall development strategy, improving engineering processes, and fostering a high-performance culture focused on delivering customer-centric, scalable, and high-quality software solutions. Your leadership will influence not only day-to-day engineering execution but also long-term technology planning and cross-functional collaboration across Product, QA, DevOps, and Design.

• Lead software development team daily to deliver timely releases for features, enhancements, and fixes for Tracx’s suite of software applications
• Implement efficient processes, scalable tools, and resource allocation to achieve a high level of productivity
• Work closely with other company leaders to maintain a solid understanding of the impact of specific software releases at all levels of the business and client base
• Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, DevOps, and Design teams to ensure alignment across all functions in planning, scoping, and executing software initiatives
• Provide guidance to the development team to facilitate positive and effective communications throughout the company
• Coordinate staff activity to accomplish objectives for specific projects
• Plan and execute staff development activities and training
• Actively participate in daily stand-ups, as well as prioritization and ticket grooming sessions as necessary to effect on-time and impactful software releases
• Report weekly to the management team regarding work in progress, timelines, updates, staffing issues, and/or obstacles to on-time releases
• Forecast and adhere to an annual budget
• Collaborate with management, subject matter experts, and the development team to establish the company’s technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs
• Encourage and promote team best practices (Unit Testing, Code Reviews, Adherence to ticketing procedures, etc.)
• Other duties as assigned

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