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Our global Investment Research client is seeking to recruit a Senior Director to build and manage a cross-functional engineering team responsible for developing and delivering highly scalable cloud-based investment research and analytical content to customers globally.
Responsibilities:
- Build and manage a cross-functional engineering team responsible for developing and delivering highly scalable cloud-based specialized investment research, data and analytical content to customers globally
- Develop team strategy and goals designed to maximize and exceed financial, business and product growth objectives
- Managed the development and execution of end-to-end subscription based research, data and analytics products that are delivered via API, data Feeds and workflow driven web applications
- Oversee strategic planning and execution of multi-quarter development and resourcing for AWS infrastructure costs, database architecture and application architecture
- Coach, mentor and professionally develop the engineering team with the objective of delivering cutting-edge products and features on time and on budget
- Evaluate, select and manage off-shore engineering resources and external vendor relationships
- Manage DevOps, engineering and product delivery roadmaps and day to day platform maintenance and work closely with QA to ensure product and platform quality
- Manage the annual engineering department budget and maximize spend strategically
- Leverage the Agile/SCRUM/Lean methodologies throughout the SDLC and constantly promote process improvement initiatives
- Work closely with business heads, investment research teams and other key stakeholders to develop consistent product and financial growth strategies
- Report directly to the CTO/CPO
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering
- 10+ years information technology engineering management experience in the financial services, capital markets or financial information services industry
- Demonstrated experience building and leading large cross-functional engineering teams and a proven track record of delivering AWS and REST API driven cloud-based solutions in the financial industry
- Advanced knowledge data modeling and data architecture concepts, including expertise with AWS suite of tools and infrastructure designed to cost-effectively run DevOps
- Demonstrated business acumen and strategic thinking skills with the keen ability to build relationships with key business and technical stakeholders
- Advanced hands-on knowledge of various frontend and backend application and database technologies including, but not limited to: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, Java, Python, Angular.js, Javascript, HTML, CSS, AWS Cognito, MS Active Directory, etc.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and business presentation skills
- Experience with enterprise content management and publishing solutions such as EidosMedia preferred
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