Director, Software Engineering

Job Description:

The Role

We're looking for a passionate engineering leader to join Fixed Income Engineering chapter supporting Bond Trading products. You will bring a strong technology background with a passion for coaching and growing engineering talent. In this role you will be leading a team of dynamic engineers working across multiple squads. Join us to be a part of our leadership team and help us build a healthy team environment promoting Engineering Excellence and a strong product mindset.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Provide engineering expertise and thought leadership in defining and implementing technical strategy and roadmap partnering closely with Product Area Leads and Engineering partners.
• Experienced in designing and building large scale resilient distributed systems.
• Experienced in defining and promoting branching strategy, development and testing best practices with standard quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Promoting engineering excellence and continuous learning mindset.
• Passion for leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering talent.
• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Experienced in identifying and acquiring talent needs, resource planning, and talent allocation across large organizations

• Define and implement best practices, standards and guidelines for software development, including code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure consistency and quality across the organization
• Driving a culture of excellence and continuous improvement, including setting high standards for quality, performance and reliability
• Ensuring organization talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities including workforce planning vital to provide increased value and results for clients and the business
• Supporting and empowering associates, to enable delivery of increased value in their teams, including coaching and mentoring team members to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Enabling an agile and streamlined organization by demonstrating agile behaviors
• Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions
• Measure performance through established objectives and critical metrics
• Align associates across teams and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent while also building learning opportunities and content to develop skills
• Remove impediments to delivering value