Director, Software Engineering

Job Description:

Position Description
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Identifies, maintains, and prioritizes technical tasks -- Technology Lifecycle Management and Continuous Improvement (CI) -- using Kafka and Python script in Jenkins frameworks. Facilitates and provides leadership for design, code review, and engineering meetings for application developers using Bit Bucket and Git. Leads the design and implementation of portfolio services using Axioma Portfolio, Confluence Gliffy, Draw.io, Microsoft Visio, and PowerPoint. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi‑faceted software applications.

Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business‑unit‑wide solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.
• Participates in high‑level, cross‑functional architecture design teams.
• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross‑company strategic designs.
• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
• Consults on the documentation of major technology application.
• Oversees the technical implementation of cross‑divisional or company architectural components.
• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.
• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.
• Plans and leads organization‑wide initiatives.
• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization‑wide projects.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Researches and recommends new technologies.
• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization‑wide technology initiatives.
• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
• Identifies and plans for future resource needs.
• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.

Education and Experience
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing portfolio construction applications according to Agile methodologies.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing portfolio construction applications according to Agile methodologies.

Skills and Knowledge
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Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) developing high throughput, fault tolerant, high concurrency batch process and highly scalable middle‑tier Web Services for portfolio construction and management applications in a batch/event‑based hybrid paradigm using Java and Spring; administering, configuring, and interacting over message‑based middleware -- Java Message Service (JMS), Kafka/Kinesis, Kafka Streams -- and JPA/my Batis applications; analyzing complex financial data landscapes across relational databases -- Oracle PL/SQL;
  
  scheduling batch jobs using Autosys; and collaborating with third‑party vendor portfolio optimizations (Axioma) for loose coupling.
• DE analyzing requirements and large inter‑connected data models -- partitioning, dimensional modelling, and noSQL data models -- to develop portfolio construction and management applications with vertically aligned full stack stories according to Agile methodologies; identifying requirements in automation‑capable tests, using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) techniques, Spock, Junit, Cypress, or Cucumber; and developing vertical stories…