Executive Director, Development Architecture

What You'll Do
Lead IT Development Architecture for OCC"s Development, Testing, and Integration team, managing a team of architects and developers. Scope of responsibilities will include both legacy applications under the Encore platform and development of the risk applications/services for the new Ovation platform under the Renaissance program.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Build, inspire, and guide a high-performance team of IT professionals, including architects and shared-services developers to deliver best in class applications/services for Clearing, Risk, Data, and Testing.
• Interact with Product Owners, Technology Leads, Project Managers, and Leadership Team members to recommend solutions that best meet needs of the organization.
• Collaborate with Clearing, Data, Architecture, Integration Testing, Financial Risk Management, and Quantitative Risk Management teams to plan and execute technology solutions.
• Provide input to Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Solutions Architecture (SA) designs and standards.
• Enforce Enterprise Architecture and Solutions Architecture standards for functional and non-functional requirements.
• Set and enforce development standards and metrics for measuring developer productivity using Jellyfish as the primary tool.
• Develop procedures and common metrics to ensure that efficiency, collaboration, and quality standards are achieved.
• Conduct design and source code reviews to ensure that applications adhere to the established standards.
• Establish performance engineering practices for capacity planning, performance tuning, diagnostics, problem detection and resolution.
• Verify that enterprise-wide application design standards are adhered to.
• Ensure compliance with Enterprise Technology Delivery, CI/CD, Architecture Review Board, GSD (Good Software Delivery), and Security practices.
• Represent the team at the Architecture Review Board and Monitoring Working Group.
• Perform the role of relationship manager third party software (e.g. Ververica, Redis, etc.)
• Prepare and maintain Solution Design documentation in collaboration with Solution Architecture adhering to Architectural Standards set by EA and SA.
• Drive team productivity and focus through quarterly Objective Key Results (OKRs).
• Attend educational courses and seminars to expand your knowledge and skills on the job.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
Manages a team of individual contributors and consultants/contractors
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Minimum fifteen years' experience with leading software development teams with a focus on financial risk systems.
• Experience with Agile development processes for enterprise software solutions.
• Solid understanding of options and derivatives clearing and settlement business processes.
• Strong organizational leadership skills
• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and make decisions quickly.
• Capability to support processes and development teams across a diversified group of business segments.
• Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers, co-workers, and Executive Management
• Strong work ethic, hands-on, detail oriented with a customer service mentality.
• Team player, self-driven, motivated, and able to work under pressure.
• Results-oriented and demonstrated record of developing initiatives that impact productivity

Technical Skills:

• Experience in
  
  • scaled agile framework (SAFE)
  • technologies that include Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Jira, and Github
  • utilizing best practices in software engineering
  • CI/CD pipeline
• Past/Current experience of 3+ years working on a large-scale cloud native project.
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations using public cloud vendor preferably using cloud foundational services like AWS's VPCs, Security groups, EC2

Education and/or Experience:
BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Mathematics or a similar technical field
Certificates or Licenses:
None Required
Who We Are
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.
What We Offer
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
Student Loan Repayment Assistance
Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
Generous PTO and Parental leave
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location.
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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer