Dir, Tech Delivery–Data & Enterprise Platform

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Target Compensation

Technology Delivery and Execution

• Lead organization responsible for end-to-end delivery of data and enterprise platforms from a design, development, and testing perspective ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and with high quality.
• Oversee teams responsible for applications in scope and align roadmaps with 3rd party applications.
• Define and work with leaders on their team in implementing a consistent delivery process to measurable outcomes.

Business Partnership and Solutioning

• Serve as a partner to the business units who drive data roadmaps as well as cross-functionally support initiatives requiring horizontal services in alignment with credit union strategies and priorities.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions.
• Ensure solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
• Drives reusability and horizontal services where applicable to ensure the best use of technology across the credit union.

Application and Technology Solution Maintenance

• Responsible for routine maintenance applications and ensuring solutions remain upgraded to supported versions.
• Maintain and execute on a backlog of break/fix items for applications to ensure timely remediation and continuously ensure quality in production.
• Engage on escalated production issues during the incident management process to remediate issues as well as follow up through problem management tickets to ensure future improvement.
• Ensure proper telemetry and monitoring is available for support groups to oversee and report on the health of the technology application environment.
• Drive vendors in continuous improvement and stability efforts.

Leadership and Management

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on data and enterprise platform technology assets and solutions.
• Assign, prioritize, track, and review progress on tasks for assigned staff.
• Supervise, coach, and regularly review the performance of staff.
• Execute coaching improvement plans and make recommendations for promotions.
• Provide input to the IT budgeting and planning processes throughout the year.
• Participate in regularly scheduled IT Leadership Team staff meetings.
• Manage vendor relationships and ensure vendor compliance with regulatory, contractual, and service level agreements.

IT Risk and Control Management

• Take part in Disaster Recovery and/or Business Continuity triage efforts as assigned or required by the BCP Command Team during a formally declared event.
• Address any internally and/or externally identified issues for his/her areas of responsibilities that are noted in, but not limited to, Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA), internal audits, compliance reviews, and/or regulatory exams.
• Enforce appropriate IT policies and procedures needed to maintain the integrity of the credit union’s application system within their scope.
• Ensure assigned business units are operating efficiently and reliably, are in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and rules, have appropriate operating controls to mitigate risk, and are performing at a high level.

Required Skills

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• A minimum of three (3) years of IT experience managing scalable data and enterprise application development and/or application support teams.
• Prior supervisory or leadership experience.
• Experience in a financial institution is preferred.
• A proven ability to implement innovative technology solutions that address business needs.
• Practical experience working with contract programming and other 3rd party professional services vendors, including the creation of Statements of Work (SOWs) and negotiation of labor rates for services.
• Demonstrated skills with:
• Enterprise Data Platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Microsoft Data Fabric, Databricks)
• Data Tooling and scripting (e.g. Informatica, Python, etc)
• Application development software and tools
• Enterprise API development
• Installation and support of 3rd party packaged software or hosted/cloud-based applications.
• Working in both Agile and Waterfall delivery environments.