Director - Software Engineering

Director - Software Engineering (Job ID 264252) Posted 30-Mar-2026 | Service line: Advisory | Role type: Full-time | Areas of Interest: Digital & Technology / Information Technology | Location(s): Dallas - Texas, United States; Richardson - Texas, United States About the Role As a D&T Software Engineering Director, you will be a pivotal leader, driving the AI & Data transformation journey for CBRE’s Valuations & Advisory Services (VAS). Your strategic vision will be crucial in integrating cutting‐edge AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to revolutionize our services and solidify our industry leadership in Commercial Real Estate (CRE). You will spearhead operational excellence across all engineering functions, ensuring the continuous delivery of high‐quality, impactful software and data applications that enhance client solutions and drive efficiency, while delivering at speed.

A core aspect of this role involves expert change management, deploying transformative products, fostering rapid adoption, and mitigating risks across a multidisciplinary, globally distributed team spanning the US, UK, and India. This exciting opportunity requires an innovative leader with a proven track record of building and managing high performing teams, attracting top industry talent, and possessing deep technical expertise in AI, Data, Cloud, and modern software development. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Business Operation partners to maximize user benefit and ROI, ultimately accelerating VAS’s transformational objectives through an iterative, client‐centric approach.

This is an incredible opportunity to be at the heart of our digital innovation, making a tangible impact on core business processes transformation. What's Expected from this Role? Strategic Leadership & AI Transformation: As an Engineering leader, provide visionary thought leadership to drive the AI transformation journey for the VAS business, integrating cutting‐edge AI/ML, Data, and predictive analytics to revolutionize services and solidify industry leadership in Commercial Real Estate (CRE).

Operational Excellence & Process Improvement: Spearhead operational excellence across all engineering functions, ensuring the continuous delivery of high‐quality, impactful software and data applications. Identify and significantly improve existing methods, processes, and standards within the job discipline. Global Team Leadership & Development: Build, lead, and manage a multidisciplinary, globally distributed team across the US, UK, and India.

This includes formal supervision, monitoring training and development, conducting performance evaluations and coaching, and overseeing recruiting and hiring. Serve as an inspiring role model, motivating and developing teams to achieve their full potential. Values-Driven Leadership: Lead by example, modeling behaviors consistent with CBRE RISE values.

Persuade and influence managers and colleagues, aligning actions with functional business plans. Critical Thinking: Identify and solve multi‐dimensional, complex, operational, and organizational problems, leveraging internal and external resources. Stakeholder Collaboration: Influence and collaborate with key business stakeholders at all levels to define, build, and implement a strategy and roadmap for business teams, ensuring products deliver maximum user benefit and ROI.

Driving Data Strategy: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and market trends in AI & Data, applying learnings to improve business and customer experience. Drive a forward‐looking data strategy that can realize long‐term and commercial objectives. Change Management & Digital Transformation: Lead expert change management, deploying transformative products, fostering rapid adoption, and mitigating risks.

This includes a proven track record in delivering change management and digital transformation. What you'll need To excel in this transformative role, you will need a unique blend of strategic vision, technical prowess, and leadership capabilities: Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. At least 7 years of experience in software engineering or data engineering.

At least 7 years of experience in full‐stack enterprise application development using Java Technologies. At least 7 years of experience in the Spring Framework (Core Spring, Spring Rest, Spring Boot). At least 7 years of experience in database like SQL Server, PostgresDB, Oracle, etc.

At least 7 years of experience in architecting & building RESTful APIs or Microservices. At least 5 years of people leadership experience. Preferred Skills & Qualifications: Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

Experience managing the technology strategy for an organization's product. Proven ability to architect highly resilient, cyber‐secure, and cost‑effective enterprise platforms that adhere to the highest engineering standards. Machine Learning Fundamentals: Deep understanding of various machine learning algorithms, statistical modeling, and advanced deep learning techniques (e.g., neural networks, reinforcement learning, Generative AI, LLMs). 10+ years of experience designing and implementing cloud‐native architectures on AWS, including serverless, containerized, and event‐driven systems. 10+ years of experience in public‐cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP. 10+ years of experience in building or managing large‐scale data consumption, management, or governance platforms. 10+ years of experience leading multi‐functional data engineering teams and full‐stack teams. 10+ years of experience with Spark or other big data processing technologies. 10+ years' experience with Python and/or Java. 10+ years’ Experience with Agile project Management: JIRA, Version One, ADO and CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins or other tools).

Experience with Application Monitoring and observability tools: Splunk, Datadog and NoSQL Databases like DynamoDB. Personal Attributes Strong engineering and technology background - ability to learn quickly and go deep into solutions. Expert organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.

Effective communicator: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with senior leaders, peers, and staff. Bold: History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change. Curious: Hands‐on, "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working.

Passionate: Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization. Outcome Focused: Consistently attain/exceed individual & team goals while solving constraints through creative problem solving. Reasoning Ability: Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex documents.

Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires advanced analytical and quantitative skills. Ability to direct others and teams to these tasks.

Effective Delegation: Decisions made with a thorough understanding of technical best practices and a general understanding of procedures and company policies to achieve set results and deadlines. Ability to direct others and teams these tasks taking full accountability of the outcomes. Equal Employment Opportunity CBRE has a long‐standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr