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At Radian, we see you. For the person you are and the potential you hold. That's why we've embraced a new way of working that lets our people across the country be themselves, be their best and be their boldest. Because when each of us is truly seen, each of us gives our best - and at Radian, we'll give you our best right back.
Studies have shown that job seekers may hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification listed. We strive to see the potential in each applicant, so if you're excited about this role but your experience or education level doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
See Yourself as a Director, Program Delivery
The Director, Program Delivery is responsible for leading delivery of key infrastructure, DevOps and IT initiatives at Radian. The Director, Program Delivery is responsible for leading multiple technical programs. This includes identifying opportunities to evolve and transform our technical delivery capabilities, cost-justifying these opportunities from the earliest stages of planning and initiative approval, and leading these programs through delivery, and transition to ongoing support. A key facet of this role is to assess our current practices, make strategic recommendations based on technical analysis, and then lead these recommendations through implementation and measurement. The Director, Program Delivery possesses a combination of technical/DevOps and Program Management skills and strong working knowledge of infrastructure delivery, both physical and virtual. The ideal candidate possesses experience and domain expertise of DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery ("CI/CD"), and industry best practices around software development and delivery. This enables to collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to perform needs/gap analysis, define technical strategy and direction, set scope and priorities, develop a roadmap that meets the organization's needs, and lead delivery across all key components of the roadmap.
The Director, Program Delivery is a hybrid role Program Manager and technical lead, and the successful candidate must be able to play a dual role:
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Education and Prior Work-Related Experience:
Additional Qualifications:
See Your Location
Radian is committed to a flexible work environment for many of our roles. This is a *Work From Anywhere* role meaning you have the flexibility to work from home (or another designated workspace that fits your needs).
This role provides additional flexibility should you want to work on-site at a Radian office. Explore our office locations here and let your Talent Acquisition Partner know you would be interested in working on-site.
*Work From Anywhere is subject to Radian's Alternative Work Policy and business needs.
See Why You Should Work With Us
See More About Radian
Radian is a fintech servicing the mortgage and real estate services industry. As a team, we pride ourselves on seeing the potential of every person, every idea and every day.
Seeing each other at Radian goes far beyond our open, flexible culture. It means seeing our people's potential - and creating inspiring career paths that help them get there. Or seeing new pathways and innovating for the future of our industry. It means seeing each other for all that we are. And it means seeing our purpose as one that extends beyond the bottom line - having an impact on communities across the country to help more people achieve the American Dream of homeownership.
We hope you'll see yourself at Radian. See more about us at Radian.com.
Defining Roles for Radian's Future
Understanding the qualities and characteristics that define a Leader and an Employee is important to building our future-fit workforce. Radian's future is only as bright as its people. For that reason, our People Plan includes profiles to support the qualities and characteristics that each Leader as well as each Employee should embody upon hire or via development.
EEO Statement
Radian complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, color, religious creed, marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Equal Opportunity Employer Details
To learn more about Radian's Code of Conduct and Ethics and workplace conduct, please click [here]. Radian participates in E-Verify [Link] (en español [Link]). Learn more about your rights under immigration laws [Link] (en español [Link]). View the "EEO is the Law" poster [Link]. View the "EEO is the Law" Supplement [Link]. View Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision [Link].
Accommodation
Whether you require an accommodation for the job application or interview process, Radian is dedicated to a barrier-free employment process and encourages a diverse workforce. If you have questions about the accommodation process, please e-mail careers@radian.com.
At Radian, we see you. For the person you are and the potential you hold. That's why we've embraced a new way of working that lets our people across the country be themselves, be their best and be their boldest. Because when each of us is truly seen, each of us gives our best - and at Radian, we'll give you our best right back.
Studies have shown that job seekers may hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification listed. We strive to see the potential in each applicant, so if you're excited about this role but your experience or education level doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
See Yourself as a Director, Program Delivery
The Director, Program Delivery is responsible for leading delivery of key infrastructure, DevOps and IT initiatives at Radian. The Director, Program Delivery is responsible for leading multiple technical programs. This includes identifying opportunities to evolve and transform our technical delivery capabilities, cost-justifying these opportunities from the earliest stages of planning and initiative approval, and leading these programs through delivery, and transition to ongoing support. A key facet of this role is to assess our current practices, make strategic recommendations based on technical analysis, and then lead these recommendations through implementation and measurement. The Director, Program Delivery possesses a combination of technical/DevOps and Program Management skills and strong working knowledge of infrastructure delivery, both physical and virtual. The ideal candidate possesses experience and domain expertise of DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery ("CI/CD"), and industry best practices around software development and delivery. This enables to collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to perform needs/gap analysis, define technical strategy and direction, set scope and priorities, develop a roadmap that meets the organization's needs, and lead delivery across all key components of the roadmap.
The Director, Program Delivery is a hybrid role Program Manager and technical lead, and the successful candidate must be able to play a dual role:
- Lead Radian (and partner with key technical resources) in evolving our delivery capabilities (CI/CD, build practices, etc.) and implementing these capabilities across the IT organization.
- In a Director, Program Manager capacity: responsible for identifying, analyzing, and recommending transformational opportunities, and then managing the approved strategic technical programs (scope, time, costs, quality, communications, resources, and risk) to completion.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Identify and prioritize the program work streams by producing business cases to articulate the opportunity for transformation and presenting the case for change to senior management.
- Develop a roadmap where objectives and benefit capture are articulated in a consumable plan.
- Collaborate with the technology teams and lead the execution against the roadmap.
- Lead the delivery of the work streams and achieve the objectives.
- Adapt the roadmap based on findings/experience, change in direction, or funding.
- Measure the business value and outcome of key workstreams.
- Lead transformation of our processes and tools to modernize our capabilities around deploying infrastructure and software, helping the organization do things better/faster/cheaper.
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Education and Prior Work-Related Experience:
- Degree Requirement: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
- Work Experience: 10 years of prior work related experience
Additional Qualifications:
- Good generalist experience, ideally working in with all layers of the technology stack.
- Broad understanding of tools and technology:
- Modern source control (GitHub and GitLab)
- Continuous integration and deployment (Jenkins, Bamboo, Drone, Octopus)
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC) (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
- Container Concepts using Docker
- Orchestration with Kubernetes
- Cloud experience (like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Openstack)
- Experience with a programming language, such as Python, or Java
- Working knowledge of databases and SQL
- Designing, building, testing, and maintaining the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process
- Automating different phases of the DevOps pipeline
- Integrating and connecting application elements (APIs, libraries, SDKs, etc.).
- Stays up to date with new tools and strategies, bringing recommendations for change and innovation to leadership for consideration as part of the broader strategy.
- Experience with modern SRE/DevOps practices and culture
- Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development processes and procedures, the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team, incremental delivery, and the value of metrics.
- Ability to work with the Scrum teams to develop project plans, roadmaps and manage Feature backlog. Communicate team plans, report impediments for escalation, identify risks/concerns to relevant stakeholders to help resolve.
- Ability to build and manage a team of people for the purpose of effectively managing a project, and coordinate deliverables/tasks across multiple Scrum teams.
- Strong organization skills with ability to negotiate and build a culture of continuous improvement.
- Advanced problem-solving abilities and capabilities of handling multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Ability to work independently and communicate with multiple levels, ability to build consensus on key strategic initiatives.
- Knowledge of resource management, resource acquisition, resource effort estimation, resource leveling and project resource cost planning and tracking.
- Key Attributes: Confidentiality, Honest, Integrity, Open and Approachable, Flexible, Self-Confident, Self-Aware, Team Player oriented....
See Your Location
Radian is committed to a flexible work environment for many of our roles. This is a *Work From Anywhere* role meaning you have the flexibility to work from home (or another designated workspace that fits your needs).
This role provides additional flexibility should you want to work on-site at a Radian office. Explore our office locations here and let your Talent Acquisition Partner know you would be interested in working on-site.
*Work From Anywhere is subject to Radian's Alternative Work Policy and business needs.
See Why You Should Work With Us
- Competitive Compensation: anticipated base salary/hourly rate from $116,000 to $191,000 based on skills and experience. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.
- Rest and Relaxation. This role is eligible for 25 days of paid time off annually, which is prorated in the year of hire based on hire date. In addition, based on your hire date, you will be eligible for 9 paid holidays + 2 floating holiday in support of our DEI culture. Parental leave is also offered as an opportunity for all new parents to embrace this exciting change in their lives.
- Our Company Makes an Impact. We've been recognized by multiple organizations like Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index, HousingWire's Tech 100, and The Forum of Executive Women's Champion of Board Diversity. Radian has also pledged to PwC's CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion commitment.
- Comprehensive Health Benefits. Multiple medical plan choices, including HSA and FSA options, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
- Prepare for your Future. 401(k) with a top of market company match (did we mention the company match is immediately vested?!) and an opportunity to participate in Radian's Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Homebuyer Perks. Our Homebuyer Perks program helps employees navigate the home searching, buying, selling, and refinancing processes and provides valuable financial benefits to encourage, enable, and support home ownership.
- Additional Benefits. To learn more about our benefits offerings, visit our Benefits Page.
See More About Radian
Radian is a fintech servicing the mortgage and real estate services industry. As a team, we pride ourselves on seeing the potential of every person, every idea and every day.
Seeing each other at Radian goes far beyond our open, flexible culture. It means seeing our people's potential - and creating inspiring career paths that help them get there. Or seeing new pathways and innovating for the future of our industry. It means seeing each other for all that we are. And it means seeing our purpose as one that extends beyond the bottom line - having an impact on communities across the country to help more people achieve the American Dream of homeownership.
We hope you'll see yourself at Radian. See more about us at Radian.com.
Defining Roles for Radian's Future
Understanding the qualities and characteristics that define a Leader and an Employee is important to building our future-fit workforce. Radian's future is only as bright as its people. For that reason, our People Plan includes profiles to support the qualities and characteristics that each Leader as well as each Employee should embody upon hire or via development.
EEO Statement
Radian complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, color, religious creed, marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Equal Opportunity Employer Details
To learn more about Radian's Code of Conduct and Ethics and workplace conduct, please click [here]. Radian participates in E-Verify [Link] (en español [Link]). Learn more about your rights under immigration laws [Link] (en español [Link]). View the "EEO is the Law" poster [Link]. View the "EEO is the Law" Supplement [Link]. View Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision [Link].
Accommodation
Whether you require an accommodation for the job application or interview process, Radian is dedicated to a barrier-free employment process and encourages a diverse workforce. If you have questions about the accommodation process, please e-mail careers@radian.com.
