Executive Director, Engineering - Allergan Aesthetics

As a Director of Engineering, you will lead multiple engineering teams through a layer of engineering management, reporting to senior technology leadership and partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders across the business. You will be responsible for delivering scalable backend platforms, data services, and data products that address critical business and technical challenges.

This role requires a strong blend of strategic leadership, technical depth, organizational design, and operational excellence. You will set direction, empower engineering managers, drive execution across a portfolio of initiatives, and ensure your organization consistently delivers secure, reliable, and high-quality solutions aligned with company goals.
Responsibilities

- Own delivery, execution, and outcomes across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment to organizational objectives, key results, and business priorities.

- Lead and develop engineering managers, enabling them to effectively run their teams, grow their people, and deliver high-impact results.

- Build a high-performing engineering organization by driving clarity of accountability, strong operating rhythms, talent development, and a culture of continuous improvement.

- Partner closely with product, architecture, data, security, and business stakeholders to shape strategy, define roadmaps, and translate priorities into executable plans.

- Oversee the design, development, and operation of backend data services, APIs, pipelines, and data products, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance.

- Drive technical and architectural decision-making in partnership with architects and senior engineers, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term business needs.

- Establish and improve engineering processes across planning, estimation, prioritization, execution, dependency management, and release delivery.

- Ensure visibility into portfolio health through clear communication of plans, risks, milestones, status, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Champion engineering excellence by promoting modern software development practices, code quality, test automation, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.

- Oversee production reliability through effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and response processes, ensuring teams proactively identify and resolve issues.

- Ensure strong data governance and engineering discipline across systems, including data quality, security, privacy, and compliance with applicable standards and regulations.

- Partner with leadership on organizational planning, staffing strategy, succession planning, and resource allocation across teams and priorities.

- Coach leaders and teams through change, helping the organization scale effectively while maintaining engagement, accountability, and delivery momentum.

- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and engineering best practices, and drive thoughtful adoption where it creates business value.

Required Experience & Skills

- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including strong depth in backend and data engineering domains such as APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and platform infrastructure.

- 4+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing engineering managers and leading multiple teams or functional areas.

- Proven experience building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and leadership development.

- Demonstrated success leading complex technical programs across multiple teams, with accountability for delivery, resource planning, and business outcomes.

- Strong experience developing production-grade applications using technologies such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js