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Requirements
- Demonstrates technical leadership to team and leads technical development and transformation
- Leads collaboration and integrations with third-party vendors
- Can solve complex problems independently with minimal supervision
- Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within department
- Implements holistic solutions utilizes working relationships across teams within their division and across the enterprise
- Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems
- Designs, organizes, and executes high impact solutions across teams both within and outside their division
- Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is executed for their products
- Develops new integrations with APIs and incorporates event-driven design
- Strong requirements gathering and ability to document
- Lead automation efforts, champion unit test code coverage and other DORA metrics and fosters engineer excellence
- Leverage modern stack capabilities to transform our legacy processes and applications, align the team and delivery to target state architecture, ensuring adoption of integrated tech stacks, and elevate the quality and health of our systems
- Lead who will drive use case adoption for transformation and expansion of our Risk platform
- Lead DevOps and risk remediation efforts affecting apps and processes in Finance & Risk
- Understands the interrelationships of different departments and guides development of diverse product sets
- Mentors and guides junior engineers within respective division
- Exhibits appetite for continuous learning and improvement
- Advanced skillset in one or more technical platforms
- Strong communication skills capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business
- Manages own time to meet objectives
- Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
- Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture
- Successfully deals with ambiguity
- Recognized as the go-to expert within the division or department
- Ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail
- Expert for the organization in many of the technologies list in the technical skills
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
