AVP of Digital Engineering & Platforms

Candidates located within 60 miles of our Baltimore, Plano, or Eagan locations will be expected to be in the office Monday-Thursday; otherwise, the role can be remote.

Since 1927, the Mariner Finance family of companies has provided customers with creative, flexible, and convenient lending options. Headquartered in Baltimore, Mariner Finance operates coast-to-coast with physical locations in over half the states. With a growing number of employees, superior customer service remains the cornerstone of our business, and we pride ourselves in delivering a variety of loans with an enhanced focus on exceptional service.

We work with customers to find options that are beneficial to their specific needs, which is why we are recognized by our customers as one of the community’s consumer finance companies of choice.

Benefits:

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In this role, you will...

Lead the Digital Engineering and Quality Assurance functions responsible for the development, delivery, quality, modernization, and ongoing operation of the company’s customer-facing digital platforms, including online lending, customer account experiences, mobile applications, APIs, and supporting digital capabilities.

Serve as a senior-level subject matter advisor on digital engineering, software delivery, quality engineering, and platform operations. Partner with senior technology and business leaders to translate organizational strategy and product priorities into actionable engineering plans, standards, and roadmaps that improve delivery, reliability, scalability, security, and customer experience.

Drive a high-performing engineering organization focused on speed, quality, predictability, accountability, and continuous improvement, including modernization of the software development lifecycle through automation, modern engineering practices, and AI-assisted and agentic development capabilities.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead the Digital Engineering and Quality Assurance functions, with accountability for engineering delivery, application quality, production readiness, platform reliability, and overall functional performance and results.
• Shape functional strategy, engineering standards, technology priorities, and modernization roadmaps for Digital Engineering and Quality Assurance in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Partner with senior leaders in the development of functional strategy, engineering standards, operating practices, technology priorities, and modernization roadmaps that support the company’s digital capabilities and broader technology objectives.
• Translate organizational strategy, business priorities, and product roadmaps into short-and long-term engineering plans, priorities, resource requirements, and delivery commitments.
• Serve as a senior-level subject matter advisor to technology and business leaders on digital engineering capabilities, platform performance, delivery risks, technical investments, and emerging technologies.
• Oversee the development, enhancement, modernization, and ongoing support of customer-facing web and mobile applications, APIs, integrations, and supporting digital platforms.
• Evaluate software architecture, technical design, and engineering practices; partner closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Influence cross-functional leaders and teams across Product, Architecture, Information Security, Infrastructure and Operations, Compliance, and…