Director Software Engineering
Boyd Gaming Corporation is one of the nation’s leading casino entertainment companies, but we’re so much more than that! We're a billion-dollar, publicly-traded company that retains the philosophy of a family-owned business, focused on creating long-term, sustainable growth for our shareholders. This philosophy defines and separates us from the competition, making us unique in our industry.
From our beginnings in the 1970s, we made a commitment to our guests, employees, and communities to create a culture and an operating style built around that of a family-owned business. Even as a public company operating in a highly competitive industry, the Boyd Style of hospitality continues to define us.
We currently own and operate 28 gaming properties in ten states: Aliante, Cannery, Eastside Cannery, Gold Coast, The Orleans, Sam’s Town, Suncoast, California, Fremont and Main Street Station in Las Vegas; Jokers Wild in Henderson, NV; Blue Chip in Michigan City, IN and Belterra Casino Resort in Florence, IN; Par-A-Dice in East Peoria, IL; Diamond Jo Dubuque in Dubuque, IA and Diamond Jo Casino in Northwood, IA; Belterra Park in Cincinnati, OH; Kansas Star in Mulvane, KS; Ameristar Kansas City in Kansas City, MO and Ameristar St. Charles in St. Charles, MO; Valley Forge in King of Prussia, PA; Sam’s Town in Tunica, MS and IP Biloxi in Biloxi, MS; Amelia Belle in Amelia, LA, Treasure Chest in Kenner, LA, Delta Downs in Vinton, LA, Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, LA, and Sam’s Town in Shreveport, LA. Each is distinguished not only by the quality of its amenities but also by the exceptional customer service our guests have come to expect from a Boyd Gaming property.
Job Description
Company Description
Boyd Gaming Corporation has been successful in gaming jurisdiction in which we operate in the United States and is one of the premier casino entertainment companies in the United States. Never content to rest upon our successes, we will continue to evolve and retain a position of leadership in our industry.
Our past success, our current business philosophies and our sound business planning, combine to position Boyd Gaming Corporation to maximize value for our shareholders, our team members and our communities.
Job Description
In coordination with CTO and other Technology and Architecture leadership, evangelizes the company’s technical vision and app/web/cloud development footprint, and assists to drive certain aspects of the company’s technological development, including assisting in the direction of all system and data development strategies and design in various functional business domains and corresponding projects. Provides guidance of vision, problem anticipation, and problem-solving ability to all teams within IT.
Provides primary software and integration engineering oversight and execution guidance for all appropriate projects, POCs and pilots, as well as certain exploratory initiatives as appropriate. Is knowledgeable in as many technologies, architectural styles, and development stacks, integrated development environments and methodologies as possible. Role expertise includes strong industry acumen and a solid understanding of the verticals of business operations.
Operates in a consultative fashion with executive management and various department heads, such as Marketing and Finance, as an advisor of technologies that may improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Familiar with evangelizing and implementing a variety of the enterprise architecture concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Evangelize the core strategic technology and software/integration development vision for the company and anticipate, plan and act on shifts in technology
- Simultaneously lead design and establish software engineering guidance for multiple pilots, POCs and projects across Product, Cloud and Innovation verticals
- Discover and evangelize the implementation new technologies that yield competitive advantage
- Define system and application architecture and provide vision, problem anticipation, and problem-solving ability to organization
- 10+ years of professional IT, leadership experience delivering enterprise-level application and system solutions; this experience includes, but is not limited to, app/web architecture and engineering, data architecture and engineering
- 8+ years leading initiatives that involve complex enterprise integration with operational systems, including, but not limited to, near real-time interface dependencies, multi-level infrastructures and enterprise data impact
- Oversee implementation of development methodologies and best practices, and advise adjustments to executive management
- Validate and assure quality assurance and data protection processes
- Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
- Create organization-wide development engineering standards and practices
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies
- Verify app, web and integration architectures are rationalized and appropriately used across the organization
- Assist business and IT leadership with technical guidance, including but not limited to framing strategy, analyzing opportunities and creating practical roadmaps to support execution
Qualifications
- Preferred BS in Computer Science or related field and at least 15 years of experience in Information Technology; at least 10 years of management and strategic experience in IT or MBA/MS in equivalent field with 1 years of experience, 7 of which must be strategic in nature
- 10+ years of professional IT, leadership experience delivering enterprise-level ecosystems of application, data and integration solutions
- 8+ years leading initiatives that involve complex enterprise integration with operational systems, including, but not limited to, near real-time interface dependencies, multi-level infrastructures and enterprise data impact
- 6+ years leading enterprise technology programs to set strategy, vision and guiding principles, including, but not limited to, Data Intelligence Programs, Enterprise Integration Design and Standards and Architectural Centers of Excellence
- Proven experience with cloud integration, hybrid environments, and tools like MuleSoft, AWS Lambda, and Kafka.
- Preferred background in the gaming, hospitality, or entertainment industry, or similar customer-centric environments where seamless technology integration is mission-critical.
- Experience evaluating project requests and proposals for viability, assist with requirements definition, and advise on potential impacts to existing applications.
- Ability to participate with Product/Project Management and other teams to estimate total project cost if necessary
- Ability to work closely with Product/Project Managers to ensure projects remain on target.
- Passion to keep abreast of emerging architectural and technological trends.
- Ability to regulate provisioning of resources while providing project leadership to identify available solutions, project cost, resource, and time forecasts
- Strong understanding of the principles of development and architecture design methodologies and strategies that are targeted and/or have been implemented within the existing environment
- Process deployment experience in one or more of the following is preferred:
- Agile/Scrum SDLC
- Azure DevOps, Jira/Confluence
- CICD
- DevOps
- Test Driven Development
- Test Automation through a variety of tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, etc.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Boyd Gaming is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
