Director, Software Engineering

Position Description: 

Works with Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics tools including Oracle Business Intelligence suite (OBIEE), Power BI, and Tableau. Employs Snowflake and Redshift for data warehousing and data lake solutions. Builds scalable patterns for data consumption from cloud-based data-lakes. Works closely with enterprise architects, squad leaders, chapter team leaders, engineers, and business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to define future strategy, solutions, and ensure stability of underlying platforms. Supports the run-time production environment and serves as senior point of contact for all incidents. 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. 

• Makes 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 applications. 

• 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 (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and data warehouse development in a financial services environment. 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and data warehouse development in a financial services environment. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing Oracle BI reporting and data warehousing (including Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) from Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) and DB2) using Informatica, Airflow, PL/SQL and zNFS in Agile frameworks (Scrum and Kanban) within a financial services environment. 

• DE designing, developing, and maintaining web-based BI applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS), S3 storage, Python, and REST and SOAP web services.  

• DE designing large-scale enterprise application architecture and system configuration using Linux, Shell and Perl scripting, Tibco Data virtualization, Snowflake, and SnapLogic.  

• DE performing data analytics and visualization using Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Business Intelligence suite (OBIEE), BI Publisher, and Oracle 11g databases. 

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