Director, Full Stack Engineering

Job Title

Leads the development of enterprise-quality platforms using Angular/Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services, and Oracle SQL & PL/SQL. Sets standards in applying practices across the squad in specified areas -- unit testing, automation, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD), design, and code reviews. Researches, designs, and develops computer and network software, or specialized utility programs. 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 in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Full Stack Engineering (or closely related occupation) implementing Information Technology (IT) solutions within a financial services, operations, and product development environment.

Or, alternatively, Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Full Stack Engineering (or closely related occupation) implementing Information Technology (IT) solutions within a financial services, operations, and product development environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Demonstrated Expertise ("DE") developing Cloud infrastructure components -- Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), and Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) setup -- for data analysis, reporting, and consumption on Cloud, using Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda server-less computing, Cloud formation, and CI/CD tools (Chef and Jenkins).
• DE building architecture design using Microsoft Visio, Lucid chart, and Visual Paradigm; and developing complex solutions for applications, data storage, data warehousing information barriers, and data protection for complex data structures, using Snowflake, Informatica, Oracle, and Oracle Tools.
• DE coordinating an application engineering team in an Agile environment, using JIRA; and building REST-based microservices to develop complex distributed software systems and compliance monitoring applications to perform complex real time calculations, using Spring MVC, JDBC, Mybatis frameworks, Java, and Scala.
• DE building products for an investment management domain, using Java and J2EE, Web Technologies (HTML and CSS), Java Data Objects (JDO), and Java Object Oriented Querying (JOOQ); and developing automation test scripts within automation infrastructure, using Karate DSL, Cucumber, Fitness, and Postman.

Salary: $178,131.00 - $194,000.00 /year.