Senior Director of Software Engineering - Head of Cloud/Lake Platforms Engineering
Job responsibilities
- Leads multiple technology and process implementations across departments to achieve firmwide technology objectives
- Directly manages multiple areas with strategic transactional focus
- Provides leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business
- Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives
- Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations
- Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
- Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
- Lead the execution of our firm-wide migration to strategic platforms and data
- Is accountable for the delivery and growth of enterprise-grade data platforms with a focus on scalability, availability, capabilities, and performance
- Collaborate with peer teams such as Data Management, Data Publishing, and Data Governance to deliver solutions for key personas, including analysts, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, AI/ML engineers, operators, and compliance officers
- Elevate the engineering standards within our organization through best practices, coaching, and talent development
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training, or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
- Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists
- Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
- Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- Extensive practical cloud native experience
- Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- Expertise in systems and software design for large-scale distributed data solutions
- Experience with large scale data platforms
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level
- Familiarity with data processing and development frameworks like Spark, Informatica, and DBT
- Knowledge of open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta, and their catalog solutions (e.g., Polaris, Unity)
- Proficiency in software development technologies (Java/JS/Python/REST) and methodologies (Agile/Scrum)
- Experience in AI/ML and feature engineering is a plus
About Us
We are a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve consumers, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits. You'll support the delivery of award-winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting-edge mobile applications, digital experiences and next-generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.