Director, Software Engineering - Shared Services

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Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Director, Software Engineering - Shared Services to lead the strategy, delivery, and support of enterprise platforms, integration and testing capabilities. This role is accountable for foundational technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, NATS, integration platforms (EDI, Mulesoft), and centralized testing services-all essential to the success of GP's digital initiatives across all business segments.

The ideal candidate will excel at applying our Principle-Based Management (PBM®) philosophy and be comfortable leading highly dynamic, cross-functional teams, driving operational excellence and innovation through platform, integration, and testing services.

Location : This is an onsite role (3 days in office) based out of our Atlanta GP office.

Our Team

GP's Software Engineering & Integration team's core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions and integrations. We recently initiated our transformation journey, creating functions and capabilities that enable engineers to have major impacts on GP's business performance. We seek to build functionality once, so engineers are encouraged to re-use their peers' work and modify them to meet new use cases. We focus on delivering profitable business outcomes by partnering with business analysts, delivery leaders, and quality engineers to build the right solution at the right speed.

What You Will Do

• Guide and enable each team member in the Shared Services organization to realize their potential and make their greatest contribution to the organization's vision.
• Hire, develop, and retain employees who are motivated to contribute and who bring diverse aptitudes, strengths and passions to the team.
• Promote and apply the Principle Based Management culture within the team and organization.
• Drive the vision and roadmap for GP's shared enterprise platforms and services, developing strategies for delivering robust, scalable solutions that enable internal and external business applications.
• Oversee the deployment, reliability, and continuous improvement of the enterprise platforms we maintain, such as Kubernetes, NATS, Grafana and other core platforms, ensuring alignment with business needs and industry best practices.
• Lead the delivery and support of integration capabilities (EDI, Mulesoft), collaborating with business and IT teams to enable seamless data exchange and process automation across GP's ecosystem.
• Build and manage centralized testing services, promoting defect prevention, automated testing, supporting various GP application teams.
• Create a culture of ongoing optimization, regularly reviewing and enhancing processes and engineering practices applying economic thinking.
• Foster strategic partnerships with vendors and cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery and optimal tool acquisition.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging tech, driving innovation and transformation in platform operations, integration, and testing.
• Drive the adoption of GenAI tools within your capability, continuing to transform ways of working and driving productivity improvements.
• Collaborate and be a challenge partner with the other SE&I and IT Capabilities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Proven foundational experience with cloud platforms (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), messaging technologies (NATS), and integration platforms (EDI, Mulesoft)
• Proven leadership in building and scaling platform and integration capabilities for a large, distributed organization
• Demonstrated experience applying and/or implementing Agile/Scrum methodologies and SDLC
• Experience with global, distributed technical teams
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• Experience leading quality engineering teams focused on test automation and defect prevention

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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