Director, Software Engineering

Job Description

:

Position Description:

***Multiple Positions Available***

Develops and maintains industry-leading software applications. Builds API based solutions using JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, NodeJS, and GraphQL. Delivers software solutions using Cloud-computing and public Cloud platforms -- Amazon Web Services (AWS). Delivers products efficiently using software applications road maps and guardrails. 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:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing enterprise Web applications in a financial services domain.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing enterprise Web applications in a financial services domain.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”)developing component based responsive single page financial services applications, using AngularJS2/4, Typescript, Node.js, Webpack, and Gulp; implementing test cases using Karma and Jasmine behavior-driven development testing frameworks; and integrating single page financial services applications with Google and Adobe Analytics.

• DEdeveloping high performant and concurrent RESTful Web Services and GraphQLqueries, and developing applications with low latency and vertical and horizontal scalability, using Typescript, Javascript, and NodeJS.

• DE architecting secure and scalable Web applications for financial services, to protect against cross site scripting and cross site resource forgery attacks deployed in managed environments over a Cloud infrastructure, using UML, MS Visio, Typescript, Javascript, and NodeJS.

• DE building responsive MVC-based Web applications operating with Tomcat application server, Java-based middle layer, and Modern JavaScript client-side technologies (ES6, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, and SASS) that consume RESTful JSON Web services.

#PE1M2

Certifications: