Vice President Of It / Sr. Engineering Lead

The VP of Information Technology / Senior Engineering Lead will increase focus and visibility for Issuer Solutions, drive accountability and quality, roadmap delivery, appropriate level of innovation and transformation through standardization for the industry and sustain engineering managed.The person will lead delivery of teams across development to implementation to production support and resources through alignment and appropriate prioritization.

ESSENSTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Leads team and others through strategic organizational change initiatives.

Strong background in software development, and good understanding of modern practices like cloud, DevOps, agile, java, APIs, modern frameworks, databases etc.

Ensure developers deliver quality code, meeting coding and cyber standards, style guides, using test driven development without any technical debt created while working closely with Chief Development Officer.

Partners with business stakeholders, clients relationship managers and senior leadership to deliver strategic roadmaps.

Oversees development and delivery while be the single escalation point to senior leadership.

Structures team to ensure engagement and alignment of resources and skills to address support, development, and client delivery expectations per roadmap.

Embed the continuous improvement culture with assessment of processes, controls, quality, development practices etc. across the team.

Assess and remediate controls (reputational, financial, operational) and associated monitoring of existing environment.

Builds structure and succession, grooms team leaders to be able to operate without day-to-day guidance, establish clear roles and responsibilities and process owners to enable the team/organization to become self-standing addressing single points of failure and make it process dependent.

Ensures investment in appropriate documentation for the platforms to allow for supportability, risk mitigation through cross training and support new resource onboarding.

Leverages off-shore resourcing including consultants effectively with investment in pre-requisites, work allocation and guidance, creates culture of trust to off-shore certain projects with oversight.

Invests in resource capacity management process for improved portfolio management across build, run, and implement work requests and projects.

Participates in project planning; determines project needs in advance and establishes the appropriate timeline to complete projects on time.

Delivers metric driven approach to measure progress on platforms across SDLC KPIs and Support.

Support a culture that rewards success, promotes accountability, and encourages collaboration.

Required Qualifications:

You know how to motivate teammates, are driven and comfortable rolling up your sleeves. You thrive in a fast-paced, cross-discipline, collaborative environment. You are strategic, adaptable, and flexible. You meet the following minimum requirements:

Bachelors degree; 15 years of technology software engineering and leadership experience; or an equivalent combination of education and or experience in a related field.

A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes, and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.

Previous leadership or management experience of 5+ years required.

Ability to drive and navigate through complex program delivery, ensuring meeting roadmap delivery and timelines working across multiple stakeholders.

Ability to communicate effectively is a requirement, as this position will build consensus with numerous internal and external resources and effectively influence technical direction of projects to be successful.

Ability to determine the best implementation approach/methodology for assigned project(s) based on established guidelines and standard methodologies and figures out appropriate strategy for ensuring desired objectives.

You will need to be very flexible with learning new technology quickly.

You will be leading teams in developing micro services and mirco batch technology, so previous experience developing modern technology is a key.

Knowledge of Java, Cloud based development, DevOps/CICD pipeline, C#, .NET, MVC, APIs, PKI is preferred.

Strong knowledge of Agile software development methodology

Experience working in the Financial Services industry or specifically with Fiserv products and services is a strong plus.

Good understanding of troubleshooting methodology.

The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies.

The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery.

Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.

Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities

Willingness to travel to regional office sites and partner locations.