A day in the life of a Director of Software Engineering.

You'll lead the teams in and drive the mission and vision of the Engineering Excellence and Enablement organization focused on developing foundational technology capabilities that accelerate the pace deliveries for customer-facing web and mobile applications. We are excited to write the next chapter of engineering excellence through investment in Site Reliability, Developer Experience and Developer Tooling to elevate the technology offerings and business opportunities. We have a diverse ecosystem of highly-available RESTful micro services and streaming real-time systems hosted on leading edge AWS Cloud assets.

Our applications leverage open-source frameworks and strong software engineering principles that offer a diverse array of challenging, fun, and impactful problems in scalability, monitoring, and automation capabilities. We are looking for a servant leader whose people-first approach and engineering mindset elevates the safe and collaborative culture of the teams and enables delivery of excellence.

If you are a true technologist at heart with the ability and business acumen to partner with business clients in a way that inspires them to challenge the status quo and want to provide an inspiring and compelling working environment that allows your engineering team to push the digital boundaries within the Financial Services industry.

Responsibilities:

• Lead with humility and grow talented engineering who are building the next level of engineering

capabilities in Developer Experience, Developer Tooling, and Site Reliability

• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers in your teams

• Raise accountability and strive to build a culture that continuously raises the bar for excellence

• Build a strong sense of psychological safety on your teams and adjacent teams

• Engage with stakeholders to define strategic imperatives and execute roadmaps that create original

digital customer products and services

• Work within and across agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of industry leading development tools and technologies

• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community

• Encourage innovation, foster diversity and inclusion, challenge the status quo, and leverage cutting-edge technologies, and offer, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self organization

• Leverage and contribute to the open-source community

• Partner with leaders across the company to architect, design and develop enterprise platforms, including large scale data and machine learning applications

Basic Qualifications:

• At Least 13+ years of experience in software engineering

• At Least 5 years of experience in people management

• At Least 5 years of experience leading multiple teams within an agile environment

• At Least 3 year of experience managing other managers including talent development, performance

management, team building and succession planning

• Demonstrated experience and success pursuing best practices for teams of software engineers

Preferred Qualifications:

(Don’t have them all? Don’t worry. We’ll help you develop the right skills for the job)

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

• 13+ years of experience in software development

• 8+ years of experience in Agile practices

• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools

• Experience with Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)

• Experience leading horizontal DevOps/Developer tooling teams