Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering (State Street Bank and Trust Company; Burlington, MA): Responsible for leading a department or sub-department comprised of 3 or more engineering Scrum teams to build and maintain one or more of State Street/Charles River’s suites of components in a business or strategic area. Responsible for providing engineering vision, expertise and guidance on software construction while ensuring uncompromising quality and usability. Specific duties include: Managing team leads and/or development team staff, including assignment of work items, employee performance, engagement and professional development; Contributing to technical and business initiatives across the entire CRIMS product line through influence and knowledge; Working with Product Management leadership to plan, design and develop software solutions to meet strategic market needs; Driving the Agile process and creating a culture of continuous improvement of processes and methodologies within and beyond the direct scope of responsibility; Contributing expert guidance on software development process including writing, reviewing and approving software development specifications, projects, methods and schedules; Leading the architecture and technical direction for the area of responsibility; Keeping abreast of existing and emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business; Providing expert guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during design reviews and product demos with a sharp eye towards simplicity of design and function; Advising staff members on solving complex technical problems; Monitoring progress on key initiatives and working packages to ensure fulfillment of product and scheduling objectives; Coordinating with peers within the R&D organization to ensure seamless integration of functional workflows; Reviewing testing strategy and test plans for team’s product to ensure high product quality; Identifying improvements in team quality processes including defining new strategies, processes, and required tooling to improve quality; Working with the client services organization to provide support and maintenance to current customers; Supporting the sales organization and assisting in the execution of POCs for prospective customers; Acting as the escalation point and primary contact point for troubleshooting customer production problems and driving to quick resolution; and Acting in a team lead capacity as needed. Hybrid-remote telecommuting permitted pursuant to Company policy.

Minimum requirements: Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field; plus 10 years in any occupation/ title providing progressively responsible professional experience in a software engineering role. Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field; plus 15 years in any occupation/ title providing progressively responsible professional experience in a software engineering role.

Total experience above must include the following: 10 years of experience working with an Agile development methodology; and 7 years of experience in a supervisory role managing engineers, product specialists, co-ops, and interns. Must also have the following: Demonstrated solid experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management; Demonstrated ability to provide technical vision to achieve both tactical and strategic goals; Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages; Demonstrated solid system level architectural skills; Demonstrated experience leading teams to build large-scale, high-performance commercial databases and commercial enterprise applications using technologies such as C#.NET, WPF, WCF, Angular, React, TypeScript, Enterprise Library, JAVA, SQL Server 2019, Azure DB and Oracle 19c; Proven experience and knowledge of tools/controls such as Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2019, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Git, Perforce, SharePoint, Syncfusion and DevExpress Controls, ReSharper, JIRA, ANTS Profiler, dotTrace Profiler, Visio; Working knowledge of application monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, SolarWinds, Grafana, Elastic, ELK Stack and Splunk; Working knowledge of fintech desktop technologies such as OpenFin, Finsemble and Glue42; Proven experience with TDD (Test Driven Development) and working knowledge of test automation tools such as Silk4Net, Cypress, Cucumber, Jest, NUnit and Junit; Solid ability to clearly and succinctly summarize results for upper management; Demonstrated experience recruiting, hiring, and building a talented engineering team; Demonstrated experience organizing and running efficient meetings; Demonstrated ability to manage solution complexity to ensure simple designs and workflows; Ability to coordinate and lead cross-team activities to deliver successful solutions; Demonstrated experience designing and developing large scale commercial applications; Proven organizational skills, high attention to detail, superior time management and ability as a strong contributor to project plans and backlog management; and Solid interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills. (Unless otherwise indicated, State Street is seeking the stated ability in the skills listed above with no specific number of years or amount of experience required. All experience can be gained concurrently.)

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Salary Range:

$208 520 - $276 000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

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