Director, Software Development

Position Description:

Leads the design and implementation of Web-based applications. Provides expertise in development best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, test automation, and continuous integration. Remains up to date on changes in technologies, methodologies, and standards, assessing the viability and success factors of projects. Designs, develops, and modifies complex and major software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design. 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.
• Provides technical leadership to all team members.
• Identifies and plans for future resource needs.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Development (or closely related occupation) designing and developing Web applications, using Angular, Node.js, Java, Spring, Mongo, and Oracle in a financial services environment.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Development (or closely related occupation) designing and developing Web applications, using Angular, Node.js, Java, Spring, Mongo, and Oracle in a financial services environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) building highly scalable Spring Boot Microservices with RESTful architecture, using JSON data interchange format and Spring data for persistence; and performing database operations using persistence frameworks -- JPA and Hibernate.
• DE developing responsive Single Page Applications (SPA) using Angular, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and Typescript; and developing rich browser compatible User Interface (UI) applications, using Java, Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and Typescript.
• DE developing Cloud-native engineering solutions and migrating on-premises data products to Cloud, using Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Aurora Postgres; and maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for application code.
• DE designing and developing backend applications based on product requirements, using Oracle PL/SQL and retrieving, processing, and injecting real time data to and from online applications, using RESTful API.

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