Senior Director of Software Engineering

des leadership and high-level direction to teams while frequently overseeing employee populations across multiple platforms, divisions, and lines of business

• Acts as the primary interface with senior leaders, stakeholders, and executives, driving consensus across competing objectives

• Manages multiple stakeholders, complex projects, and large cross-product collaborations

• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams

• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization

• Experience in managing large teams and organizations, with a track record of successful leadership in complex, matrixed environments.

• Experience developing and leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists

• Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale

• Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability

• Deep expertise building and operating large scale high performance transactional environments with distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

• Deep expertise with enterprise design patterns and industry best practices with experience using modern technology (e.g., Java, Cassandra, Kafka) and design patterns (e.g., micro services, APIs)

• Experience with building, leading and mentoring technology teams and next level leaders within the organization.

• Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent

• Extensive practical cloud native experience

• Excellent communication skills and ability to present to and communicate effectively with key stakeholders across product, technology, data and design. Strong organizational and management skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Experience in Customer Identity & Authentication Domain
• AWS Certification.
• SRE mindset Culture/Approaches: To run better production systems by creating engineering solutions to operational problems.
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Infrastructure budgeting and finances. Infrastructure cost optimization