Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members and organizations to their optimum performance. Develop and implement workforce strategies to enable your teams to deliver against target initiatives and achieve their goals. Ensure your teams are delivering in an Agile way and consistently evolving and learning. Align to the key tenants: fail-fast; transparency; testing, collaboration; and practicality. Partner with the Product Management team for your assigned functional area to develop the product roadmap which would inform the technical strategy. Drive technical design discussions, decisions, and documentation that will result in new business or technical enhancements. Collaborate and partner with business to plan and execute development projects, ensuring that teams have appropriate products and technical specifications, direction, and resources to deliver projects on an aggressive, but achievable timeline. Own your assigned functional area across the entire technical stack and drive the technical roadmap and continually review existing architecture for improvements. Ensure high quality deliverables by defining and adhering to robust technical and design standards along with testing (automation preferred) based on the business user cases. Rapidly address issues and fix defects discovered during client implementations when needed. Qualifications:
General
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, related degree, or comparable experience. 15+ years of experience in a software development environment, preferably at a Fintech firm. 10+ years of experience in managing engineering teams, organizational budgets, and vendor relationships. Leadership
Deep practitioner of Agile and Lean Start-Up methodologies. Strong client service orientation with ability to bring a customer-centric perspective to all situations. Execution focused executive with a get things done attitude who can roll-up their sleeves when necessary. Demonstrated continuous improvement and continuous learning mindset. Demonstrated capability as a lifecycle problem solver (idea -> implementation). Ability to drive transformation of platforms, processes, and people. Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to senior executives and customers. Skilled at collaborating and comfortable navigating at any level of the organization. Ability to build, maintain, and grow high-performing architecture teams globally. Strong belief in servant leadership and ability to cultivate a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion. Management
Excellent knowledge of IT strategic planning and capability development with experience implementing technology strategy and roadmaps. Prior experience leading a software organization through transformation in a large enterprise environment. Demonstrated management experience in leading software architecture and engineering teams; ability to coach and mentor architecture resources and effectively manage and shape team and individual behaviors. Ability to attract, develop and retain talent. Ability to coach, motivate, and lead team members and organizations to their optimum performance. Total commitment to quality and attention to detail. Functional
Functional knowledge of financial market and products along with industry trends. Preferred experience in financial industry and/or Consulting. Technical
Must be solution-oriented and business-minded with significant practical experience in building, delivering, and supporting IT systems. Experienced with evaluating emerging technologies and recommending potential partnerships that provide efficiencies and competitive advantage within the tech stack. Experienced with developing reusable assets such as prototypes, POCs, and MVPs that contribute to organizational effectiveness and efficiency. In-depth knowledge and experience implementing platform engineering practices and organizational constructs. Demonstrated capability across all levels of the stack (network to application), service-based and event-driven architectures, cloud engineering and cloud-native design. Extensive understanding of streaming messaging frameworks and API development. Demonstrated ability building performant and robust technology solutions. Strong understanding of modern data modeling and data architecture practices. Experienced with industry standard programming languages, operating systems, application development frameworks, monitoring tools, and CI/CT/CD tools. Deep understanding of non-functional requirements and their importance to solution design.
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