Sr. Director, Software Engineering

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Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Sr. Director, Software Engineering will report to the Technology Department. This role is responsible for defining, overseeing, and driving IT data strategy, data governance, and data management in addition to leading application solutions strategy and managing the people, projects, resources, applications, development, and delivery related to the business and service operations functions across Millennium Trust. This role will report directly to the Managing Director, Application Development and be a critical member of the IT Leadership Team.
The incumbent will:• Serve as the primary liaison between IT and its client base by being the advocate to ensure that IT is servicing them at an exceptional standard.• Be responsible for the identification and analysis of any business opportunities which require or could leverage Technology integration or development.• Conduct analysis focused on areas such as, solutions alignment, cost justification/ROI, approvals, and initial staffing/ resource requirements. • Provide frequent communications with applicable clients to confirm priorities and make certain that IT is being used most effectively.• Support the development and implementation technical architecture patterns. • Support the firm-wide Information Technology security, disaster recovery processes, incident response management and high availability services from the applications point of view. • Drive Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Governance, and associated data management processes.
The position's key areas of focus are understanding the underlying business processes supported to ensure IT deliverables are aligned to the task, supplying the most efficient solutions, factoring in all relevant Audit and Regulatory constraints, reflecting the most effective use of applicable technology and designing in the flexibility to accommodate the high pace of change.
This role will manage a team of approximately 20-40 team members across various technology platform solutions.
• Define and execute Inspira Technology application solutions strategy.• Align, formulate, validate, link, and implement 3-5-year plan for area of responsibility with total IT and corporate vision.• Proactively identify aging or redundant technologies within the existing technology inventory which have been eclipsed by newer products, application solutions or services that may better suited to support expanding business needs; establish a sunset program to retire outdated technologies and applications.• Identify current workflow client portals and partner with business to identify and implement client and employee experience improvements.• Provide primary oversight and management of projects related to Application and Process Development solutions.• Directly manage multiple concurrent projects, both simple and extremely complex• Sustain knowledge and experience in Technology delivery to the supported client areas.• Ensure that the relevant governance and control processes are invoked and reflected for projects.• Define and establish benchmarks and quality measures for area of responsibility.• Participate in disaster recovery and contingency planning.• Ensure that Information Security Technology controls and processes are followed, architected, and tested throughout the entire lifecycle of development.• Effectively manage relevant 3rd party vendor relationships, while demonstrating excellent vendor management skills• Support and participate in the overall IT Governance structure, with specific emphasis on, Application Architecture, Services Integration, Quality/Testing Management, and alignment with Enterprise Data Architecture• Drive knowledge, component and service sharing into the team.• Focus on the implementation of cost-effective, extensible, and supportable solutions (whether 3rd party or bespoke)• Support a continuous development and integration methodology and release process (full DevOps lifecycle)• Improve the stability and resiliency of all relevant production processes.• Institute a robust model addressing process/application failures.• Ensure that a suite of Operational metrics are gathered reflecting progress.• Provide mentorship to the entire organization in Application Development & Integration, ensuring that the material is properly tailored to the context of the recipient audience.• Institute a strong culture of collaboration, responsibility, learning and mentorship.• Work with internal sales and external clients to assess scalable process and data integration solutions.• As the prime liaison between IT and the client:• Business/IT opportunity (value added role):
- Know the business and IT.
- Stay apprised of client business plan and direction.
- Act as a technology visionary
- Apply technology to business.
- Gather defensive/offensive intelligence.
- Provide consulting and guidance to corporate management on effective use of IT.• Relationship Manager:
- Understand the business.
- Determine the right services for our clients.
- Assess It's effectiveness.
- Represent client's point of view.
- Develop a good working rapport with client base with excellent communications.• Resource Integration:
- Identify project team requirements and capital requirements.• Other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
Years of Experience: • 15+ years of experience . Degree: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field . Certification: N/A . Skills & Abilities: • Strong background in requirements definitions, translating client needs, market trends, and strategic imperatives into business requirement documents and functional requirement specifications.• Proven experience in agile leadership managing projects and teams. • Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels both within and outside of the organization.• Strong Object / Relational mapping experience and ETL principles/knowledge• Experience with developing integration solutions and ecosystems that decouple data from systems of records and presentation systems that scale.• Expertise in Service Oriented Architecture design, web/RESTful services, and event-driven architecture• Experience in designing for 24 x 7 availability in a complex, batch and real-time driven environments.• Ability to influence others, up to the senior/executive level with outstanding presentation development and delivery skills.• Ability to successfully drive projects, processes and change management concepts in a dynamic and complex operating environment.• Broad knowledge of, and practical experience with, financial institution operating areas, functions, products and services and the laws and regulations that apply.• Proven track record of successful leadership in ensuring buy-in at all levels including developers, architects, peers, middle and senior management.• Self-driven and motivated • Effective experience with 3rd party vendor products and integration.• Working knowledge of consumer directed benefit products such as HRA, FSA, HSA, Cobra, and Direct Billing and Retirement products such as IRAs.• IRS rules and regulations knowledge and experience preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
The compensation for this position will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive and bonus opportunities.
Inspira provides industry-leading benefits including, but not limited to: healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, paid time off, parental leave and an employee assistance program.