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RSM US LLP · 3 days ago

Development Capability Leader (Technical)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$159K/yr - $282K/yr

10+ years exp

RSM US LLP is a leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, dedicated to empowering clients and their people. The Development Capability Director will architect and drive the development capability within the Digital Solutions group, leading high-performing teams and ensuring the delivery of innovative solutions aligned with business objectives.

AccountingConsultingFinancial Services

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Create and execute a comprehensive talent strategy for each discipline, ensuring optimal skill mix, clear roles, and progressive career paths to support enterprise delivery needs and proactively align with 18-month rolling roadmaps

Support planning processes to understand business goals and align future development goals and strategies

Recruit, build, and inspire a diverse and high-performing team of developers with the right capability mix for the firm’s evolving portfolio. This includes fostering career growth through mentoring and continuous learning

Build and maintain a balanced mix of skills across full-stack, integration, cloud, and low-code platforms

Build and maintain development competency frameworks and targeted training programs that drive excellence in Agile delivery and provide accelerated growth for early-career and mid-level developers

Cultivate a collaborative, learning-oriented culture that values efficiency, innovation, and quality

Mentor and empower high-performing teams

Define and execute the development strategy aligned with the firm’s Digital Solutions vision and SAFe framework

Document and continuous improvement of delivery processes, templates, and best practices across the development discipline

Ensure standardized Agile and SAFe practices across all development, ensuring consistency in ceremonies, tools and performance measures

Implement governance and quality control mechanisms to uphold high delivery standards across products, projects, and programs

Lead process audits and champion compliance with regulatory and security requirements

Partner with Solution Architecture, QA, Data, and Operations capability leaders to ensure end-to-end delivery efficiency and consistency

Lead and hold the team accountable for identifying and implementing opportunities to streamline delivery workflows through AI, automation, and modern delivery tools

Oversee development activities across multiple Agile teams, ensuring predictable delivery and adherence to SAFe principles

Champion modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and reusable architecture patterns

Evaluate and deploy emerging technologies that enhance productivity, accuracy, and cross-disciplinary collaboration

Implement metrics and maturity models to assess and continually improve the capabilities' effectiveness

Verify leaders’ partner with Scrum masters, Release Train Engineers, and Agile Coaches to ensure teams adhere to SAFe principles and maximize velocity

Champion continuous improvement across Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, and quality gates

Proactively remove systemic impediments that hinder efficiency or slow delivery cycles

Establish and evolve coding standards, design principles, and best practices that ensure maintainable, scalable, and secure solutions

Monitor technical debt, system performance, and productivity trends, and lead initiatives to address them proactively

Establish and track KPIs and metrics to measure discipline performance, including throughput, quality, and automation adoption

Lead process audits to identify and implement improvement opportunities

Foster a culture of built-in quality and technical excellence, ensuring solutions meet current and future business needs

Serve as a key liaison between capability leaders and portfolio teams to ensure alignment of delivery objectives with organizational strategy

Communicate progress, risks, and opportunities with clarity and transparency, enabling informed decision-making at all levels

Qualification

Cloud platformsAgileSAFeEnterprise architectureLow-code platformsCybersecurity complianceStakeholder managementPeople leadershipCoaching skillsChange managementCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field

Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as Azure, API management frameworks and data architecture

Understanding of Agile and SAFe concepts, including solution intent, enablers, system architect roles and architectural runway

Strong technical foundation in enterprise architecture, integration, and modern development stacks

Strong experience with enterprise platforms, integrations, data, complex custom build and buy and extend solutions

Experience with low-code platforms

Strong grasp of cybersecurity, compliance, and governance requirements for enterprise systems

Strategic thinker able to align delivery capability with measurable business outcomes

Collaborative mindset with a commitment to continuous learning, lean thinking and incremental improvement

Proven success in reducing bottlenecks

Demonstrated maturity of an organization's development capabilities through measurable SAFe adoption metrics, governance, and outcomes

Minimum of 10 years of software development experience

Minimum of 5 years of leading multi-level, cross-functional development teams

Proven success implementing or operating within a Scaled Agile or lean portfolio management environment

Expert at stakeholder management

Strong people leader with a track record of energizing and developing talent and creating scalable, high-performing teams

Excellent communication, coaching, and change-management skills

Preferred

Master's degree preferred

Benefits

Flexibility in your schedule

Discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance

Company

RSM US LLP

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Founded in 1926

Chicago, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees