Position: VP, Engineering - SRE / QA
Location: New York
Overall Purpose
At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.
Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.
Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.
Essential Functions
• Able to understand and juggle multi-faceted roadmap requirements covering Product asks, re-platforming needs, maintenance and security work across the Zelle Engineering organization to deliver on success in many areas.
• Utilizes knowledge and lessons-learned from building enterprise-scale systems in the cloud to help drive best practices, architectures and technology decisions inside the Zelle organization.
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture and potentially external collaboration partners (FIs) that may be engaged with us on key efforts over the years.
• Maintains a very high bar for execution and excellence in the Engineering team, fostering leadership and executive presence throughout; can ‘coach up’ team members and leaders for a highly engaged, high-performing team, and hire top talent into the team to support these large-scale efforts.
• Identifies opportunities to ship value to Production quickly and in incremental chunks to avoid “big bang” delivery; complex environments benefit from incremental delivery.
• Builds and delivers well-considered Zelle scaling solutions via strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Data, Architecture and Operations organizations.
• Ensures software development follows effective quality guidelines and best practices in line with the rest of the Engineering organization.
• Ensures accurate/reliable information is provided within company standards including all service level agreements, and audit regulations.
• Ensures solutions are built following our Engineering best practices (e.g., Quality, CI/CD, etc.)
• Keeps executive-level management informed of department progress and problems.
• Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data. The above job description is a summary of job responsibilities and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.
Minimum Qualifications
• Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 15 or more years of software engineering experience
• Minimum 10 years or more experience in leading efforts or processes in a Technology organization.
• Minimum 5 or more years of software engineering experience dealing with large scale systems in the cloud.
• Minimum 5 or more years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines.
• Minimum 10 years or more of experience in managing an Engineering organization.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and releases.
• Superior leadership and management skills together with strong business acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated experience with state- of- the- art technology, architecture and design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security.
• A deep understanding of executing highly scalable, distributed applications in cloud environments.
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