Development Capability Leader; Technical

Development Capability Leader (Technical)

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The Development Capability Director is a strategic and operational leader responsible for architecting and driving the development capability within the Digital Solutions group. The Development Capability Director will lead and evolve the software development discipline within the firm's Digital Solutions organization, ensuring a team strategy that proactively aligns with business objectives and 18‑month rolling roadmaps. This leader will ensure the development function delivers high‑quality, innovative, and standards‑driven solutions that support business objectives in an Agile SAFe environment.

This leader will create an environment where developers thrive - combining technical excellence with a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience building high‑performing development teams, managing both complex enterprise engineering and low‑code/no‑code solutions, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, agility and innovation. The role requires balancing hands‑on technical credibility with strong leadership and people development skills. The role demands visionary leadership, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, while building robust processes and accountability mechanisms that enable predictable, efficient, and high‑quality delivery across all digital initiatives.

The Development Capability Director is accountable for achieving success metrics, setting discipline expectations, and holding the team to the highest standards of quality and delivery.

• Create and execute a comprehensive talent strategy for each discipline, ensuring optimal skill mix, clear roles, and progressive career paths to support enterprise delivery needs and proactively align with 18‑month rolling roadmaps.
• Support planning processes to understand business goals and align future development goals and strategies.
• Recruit, build, and inspire a diverse and high‑performing team of developers with the right capability mix for the firm's evolving portfolio. This includes fostering career growth through mentoring and continuous learning.
• Build and maintain a balanced mix of skills across full‑stack, integration, cloud, and low‑code platforms.
• Build and maintain development competency frameworks and targeted training programs that drive excellence in Agile delivery and provide accelerated growth for early‑career and mid‑level developers.
• Cultivate a collaborative, learning‑oriented culture that values efficiency, innovation, and quality.
• Mentor and empower high‑performing teams.

• Define and execute the development strategy aligned with the firm's Digital Solutions vision and SAFe framework.
• Document and continuously improve delivery processes, templates, and best practices across the development discipline.
• Ensure standardized Agile and SAFe practices across all development, ensuring consistency in ceremonies, tools and performance measures.
• Implement governance and quality control mechanisms to uphold high delivery standards across products, projects, and programs.
• Lead process audits and champion compliance with regulatory and security requirements.
• Partner with Solution Architecture, QA, Data, and Operations capability leaders to ensure end‑to‑end delivery efficiency and consistency.

• Lead and hold the team accountable for identifying and implementing opportunities to streamline delivery workflows through AI, automation, and modern delivery tools.
• Oversee development activities…