Frontline Education · 2 weeks ago
Director of Engineering, Data & Analytics
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$165K/yr - $230K/yr
10+ years expFrontline Education is a leading provider of software solutions designed to help K–12 school systems manage their human capital, business operations, and student data. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead a 30-person engineering organization in building and evolving their analytics product suite, focusing on modernizing platforms and driving AI-enabled product innovation.
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Responsibilities
Lead and inspire a high-performing team of application developers, data engineers, SRE and DevOps - onshore and offshore - responsible for delivering high-quality analytics solutions on time and within budget
Drive the organization’s shift from maintenance to growth, innovation, and AI-enabled value creation
Partner with Product Management on roadmap planning, discovery, and capacity alignment
Collaborate with DevOps, Security, IT, Platform, and Data Science to ensure performance, reliability, and security
Define and report KPIs relating to delivery, quality, reliability, and team health
Serve as a cultural leader modeling humility, collaboration, and continuous learning
Create a clear succession plan and develop talent in alignment with your vision
Guide integration of LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), predictive models, embeddings, and other AI capabilities
Drive high-level MLOps/LLMOps practices—model lifecycle, monitoring, evaluation, guardrails, and responsible AI alignment
Partner with Data Science to operationalize models in production
Ensure AI features are reliable, safe, and aligned with K–12 expectations for equity, transparency, and privacy
Evolve our architecture to support AI-native analytics experiences
Oversee development of multi-tenant SaaS products using: Languages/Frameworks: Java/Spring, Python, JavaScript Data: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, ETL/ELT pipelines, NoSQL Infrastructure: AWS, microservices, Git-based CI/CD Analytics: Tableau and related BI tooling
Lead modernization initiatives to enhance scalability, maintainability, and AI readiness
Manage the full SDLC—planning, estimation, architecture, testing, deployments, and quality controls
Leverage your solid grasp on analytic data solutions to deliver the right architecture, at the right time, to align with Frontline's connected data future
Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent
Foster a psychologically safe and high-performing culture
Develop future technical leaders and instill best engineering practices
Promote a 'one team' mindset and servant leadership values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field
10+ years in software/data engineering; 7+ years in engineering leadership
Experience leading distributed/hybrid teams
Experience with multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS (AWS preferred)
Experience with modern data architecture, analytics platforms, and BI
Strong Agile and SDLC leadership
Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences
Familiarity with data security, privacy, and governance
Preferred
Experience operationalizing AI/ML (LLMs, RAG, embeddings, MLOps/LLMOps)
Collaboration with Data Science or ML engineering teams
Predictive modeling, forecasting, or intelligent decision-support systems experience
Microservices, NoSQL, event-driven architecture
EdTech or data-intensive domain experience
Benefits
Personalized PTO
Comprehensive benefits, including health insurance
401k
Company
Frontline Education
Frontline Education is an integrated insights software primarily focusing on human capital management.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-08-30Acquired
Leadership Team
Matt Strazza
President & CEO
Chris Tonas
CTO
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