AVP Software Engineering

JOB DESCRIPTION

Why GM Financial Technology?

GM Financial is set to change the auto finance industry and is leading the path with embarking on tech modernization. We have a startup mindset, preserve our small company culture, in a public company environment with financial stability and intense growth over a decade long history. We are data junkies and trust in data and insights to advance our business objectives.

We take our goal of zero emission, zero collision, zero congestion and zero friction very seriously. We believe as the auto finance market leader we are in the driver's seat to lead us in the GM EV mission to change the world.

We are building global platforms, LATAM, Europe, China. Our high performing talent needs a high performing leader. GMF is comprised of over 10,000 team members globally. Join our fin-tech culture within a Blue-Chip company where we are changing the way we use technology to support our customers and business

• 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

• This role reports to the VP DevOps & Automation

• 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

• 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