AVP Software Engineering

JOB DESCRIPTION

Why GMF Technology?

Innovation isn't just a talking point at GM Financial, it's how we operate. From generative AI and cloud-native technologies to peer-led learning and hackathons, our tech teams are building real solutions that make a difference. We're committed to AI-powered transformation, using advanced machine learning and automation to help us reimagine customer interactions and modernize operations, positioning GM Financial as a leader in digital innovation within a dynamic industry.

Join us and discover a workplace where your ideas matter, your development is prioritized, and you can truly make a global impact.

RESPONSIBILITIES

About The Role:

The AVP of Software Engineering leads, manages, mentors, and builds an extremely talented software engineering team to deliver a game changing customer experience across 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. Comfort level with specific languages is less relevant, but proficiency across the full stack is fundamental. Success in the role requires experience delivering new software products, reasoning skills, strong interpersonal relationships, compassion and understanding for challenges, efficiency, and a passion for creating software for millions of customers. You're motivated by improving culture, earning trust, your team's growth, and have a track record of doing so in leadership positions.

• 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 middleware platforms and technologies
• This is a leader of leaders role, requires leading and developing people leaders in the organization.
• Build strong partnership with business and product partners to deliver new capabilities and products
• 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
• Resolves conflicts between timeline, budget and scope independently but intuitively escalates complex or consequential issues to leadership
• 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

• 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 DevOps
• Ability 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 solutions
• Experience managing and leading people managers

• 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 require