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Early Warning® · 5 days ago

VP, Engineering - SRE / QA

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$289K/yr - $372K/yr

15+ years exp

Early Warning is a trusted name in payments, partnering with thousands of institutions to enhance access to financial services. The VP of Engineering will lead the Zelle Engineering organization, focusing on evolving the tech stack and ensuring the system's stability and performance as it scales in a Cloud-based environment.

Financial ServicesFraud DetectionPaymentsRisk Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

Able to understand and juggle multi-faceted roadmap requirements covering Product asks, re-platforming needs, maintenance and security work across the Zelle Engineering organization to deliver on success in many areas

Utilizes knowledge and lessons-learned from building enterprise-scale systems in the cloud to help drive best practices, architectures and technology decisions inside the Zelle organization

Collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture and potentially external collaboration partners (FIs) that may be engaged with us on key efforts over the years

Maintains a very high bar for execution and excellence in the Engineering team, fostering leadership and executive presence throughout; can ‘coach up’ team members and leaders for a highly engaged, high-performing team, and hire top talent into the team to support these large-scale efforts

Identifies opportunities to ship value to Production quickly and in incremental chunks to avoid 'big bang' delivery; complex environments benefit from incremental delivery

Builds and delivers well-considered Zelle scaling solutions via strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Data, Architecture and Operations organizations

Ensures software development follows effective quality guidelines and best practices in line with the rest of the Engineering organization

Ensures accurate/reliable information is provided within company standards including all service level agreements, and audit regulations

Ensures solutions are built following our Engineering best practices (e.g., Quality, CI/CD, etc.)

Keeps executive-level management informed of department progress and problems

Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained

Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

Qualification

Cloud-based systemsLarge scale systemsEngineering managementTechnical leadershipCI/CDContainerizationQuality EngineeringSRE best practicesBusiness acumenInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsMentoring

Required

Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

Minimum 15 or more years of software engineering experience

Minimum 10 years or more experience in leading efforts or processes in a Technology organization

Minimum 5 or more years of software engineering experience dealing with large scale systems in the cloud

Minimum 5 or more years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines

Minimum 10 years or more of experience in managing an Engineering organization

Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and releases

Superior leadership and management skills together with strong business acumen

Demonstrated ability to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills

Demonstrated experience with state- of- the- art technology, architecture and design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security

A deep understanding of executing highly scalable, distributed applications in cloud environments

Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results

Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Must convey responsiveness and competence when dealing with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors

Work experience that demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Background and drug screen

Preferred

Experience with large-scale enterprises scaling out operations in Amazon Web Services is highly favorable

Experience with migrating application & data services from on-prem to Cloud

Strong understanding of SRE, Quality Engineering and Release Engineering best practices

Experience with 24/7 Production Support environment

Benefits

Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.

401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.

Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.

12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.