Executive Director - Software Development - Financial Services

Executive Director of Development

The Job:

- We are seeking to identify a Strong Leader / Technologist responsible for the end-to-end design and delivery of Book-building software focused on the primary market.

- The role is responsible for working with a global team of Engineers in support of this mission, with additional support from the wider technology organization.

- The ideal applicant will have an organized and creative mindset (thought leader) that drives him or her to find innovative solutions to common problems with the right tool set.

- They will be passionate about technology and have a self-driven interest in keeping up with the latest technology developments and relate them to the current product landscape along with the below mentioned responsibilities:

- Assist with building and leading a team of Managers and Senior Developers

- Facilitate system design and changes in system architecture for the enterprise application

- Maintain current knowledge of technology landscape and developments

- Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation, and creativity

- Mentor team on technology and other work-related aspects.

- Responsibility for the quality of all deployed applications and services

- Drive innovation and adoption of best practices.

- Drive roadmaps execution by partnering with Product teams.

Your Profile:

You should ideally have 20+ years of development experience building enterprise software or platforms in a financial environment with minimum 12+ years of hands-on Programming language experience in .Net Technology with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent qualification.

An ideal candidate should have:

- Experience in building and mentoring strong global technology teams (at least 40+ sizes)

- Experience managing Technology budgets and proven experience in delivering large complex projects.

- Preference is given to candidates that have experience transforming monolith to microservices

- Solid knowledge of data management technologies particularly SQL Server

- Good background in leveraging cloud technologies

- Solid architecture and design skills

- Experienced with Microsoft stack, but knowledgeable on cross-platform tech

- Can handle both front-end and back-end development