Job responsibilities
- Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
- Ensures successful collaboration across partner technology teams and stakeholders
- Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
- Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
- Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience . In addition, 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
- 8+ years experience leading teams of technologists
- Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
- Ability to collaborate with both business stakeholders and technology partners
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- In-depth knowledge of the services industry and their IT systems
- Prior hands on experience with Java Microservices or Full Stack Development
- Practical cloud native experience with AWS (or comparable Public Cloud)
- Demonstrated proficiency in creating and presenting functional and technical architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Additional knowledge of front-end technologies i.e. React / Tuxedo/JS
- Prior experience with NoSQL Databases along with modern Data Lake platforms
- Stakeholder Management