AVP Software Engineering

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RESPONSIBILITIES

About the Role:
GM Financial is seeking an AVP Software Engineer to lead a team of Software Engineers and DevOps Engineers, leading application implementation and agility across various enterprise platforms.

• Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new applications

• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across our full stack, with a particular focus on front-end and middleware platforms and technologies

• Manage third party staff augmentation firms, leveraging staff and contractors appropriately with regards to budget, timelines, and skillsets

• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards

• Foster and cultivate a culture of continuous delivery and improvement with an emphasis on full lifecycle ownership of the applications that your teams deliver

• Delegate routine and standard tasks to appropriate team members and also serve as high level escalation contact

• Resolves most conflicts between timeline, budget and scope independently but intuitively escalates complex or consequential issues to management

• Define and evangelize enterprise policies, standards and position statements

• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

• Grow subject matter experts to produce resilient, scalable software and secure data with highest quality.

• Work to modernize our existing tech stacks

• Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation

Reporting Structure:

• This role reports to the VP DevOps & Automation

QUALIFICATIONS

What make you a dream candidate?

• Experienced with several programming paradigms

• Experience with release systems and CI/CD

• Experience with Docker, Jenkins, Github tools, etc

• Deep understanding of technologies used in our stack, client-server architecture, and web technology

• Adequate understanding of infrastructure and DevOpsAble to design and architect maintainable and scalable technical systems

• Excellent listener; proven collaborator with superiors, peers and staff

• Aptitude to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions

• Ability to inspire your teammates to deliver quality software solution

Experience:

• Greater than 10 years years in software development field Req
• 5-7 years leading projects or initiatives through influence Req
• High School Diploma required
• Associate degree or bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent work experience Required
• Master's Degree preferred