AVP Software Engineering

GM Financial

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Arlington, VA

Why you should apply for a job to GM Financial:

  • 4/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 5/5 in supportive management
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave for our team members to care for and bond with their new family member.
  • Our Women's Inspiration Network (WIN) supports the recruitment, retention and professional development of women across our organization.
  • Our programs provide the support, flexibility and resources for women returning to their careers after a break.
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    Position summary

    cross all customer touch points. This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry's best talent and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer-oriented solutions in an iterative methodology. This role requires a background in software engineering, especially in skill areas such as .Net or Java, event driven architecture, Microservices, Azure or AWS based development. Comfort level with specific languages is less relevant, but proficiency across the web stack is fundamental. Success in the role requires experience delivering new enterprise scale software products, reasoning skills, strong interpersonal relationships, compassion and understanding for challenges, efficiency, and a passion for creating software for thousands of customers. Ability to lead people managers and high performing software teams. You're motivated by improving culture, earning trust, your team's growth, and have a track record of doing so in management positions.

    • In this role, you will:

    • Develop high-performing, engaged software teams and lead both people leaders and engineers.

    • 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 middleware platforms and technologies

    • Build strong partnerships with the business and product teams

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

    • 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 tasks to team members as needed and also serve as high level escalation contact

    • Resolves 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: SVP, Software Engineering

    QUALIFICATIONS

    What makes you a dream candidate?

    • Experience leading multiple agile teams along with leading people leaders

    • Experienced with several programming paradigms, Microservices, Event driven architecture

    • Experience building large scale enterprise systems in public cloud preferably Azure or AWS.

    • Experience with Docker, Jenkins, Github tools, etc.

    • Good understanding of infrastructure and DevOps

    • Ability to design and architect maintainable and scalable technical systems

    • Excellent listener; proven collaborator with leaders, 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 engineers and leaders to deliver quality software solutions

    Experience:

    • Greater than 10 years in software development field required

    • 5-7 years leading projects or initiatives through influence required

    • High School Diploma or equivalent required

    • Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent work experience required

    What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.

    Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture - an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work - we thrive.

    Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.

    Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 3-days a week in office.

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    Why you should apply for a job to GM Financial:

  • 4/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 5/5 in supportive management
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave for our team members to care for and bond with their new family member.
  • Our Women's Inspiration Network (WIN) supports the recruitment, retention and professional development of women across our organization.
  • Our programs provide the support, flexibility and resources for women returning to their careers after a break.