Vice President, Strategic Product Engineering (# 6651)

Title: Vice President, Strategic Product Engineering

Type: Full time permanent

Location: Hybrid, Winston-Salem, NC 

"US citizens and Green Card Holders and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor H1b candidates at this time”

Position Summary: 

The Strategic Product Engineering Team supports RTP, Secure Token, and other new products. This position is for a Vice President to lead in house development for Strategic Products.

The successful candidate will be responsible for development and support of all internally developed applications supporting real-time payments and tokenization services. A key aspect of the role will be to support the migration to Cloud based computing.

Qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in the field of Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or other related field
• 5+ years related IT experience in analysis, design, development, documentation, implementing and testing of software systems in Java, Spring, J2EE App servers on Red Hat Linux, UNIX or AIX
• Experience managing agile development projects
• Experience with complex, mission critical system design and evaluating and proposing alternative software designs
• Thorough knowledge of and experience in secure development practices
• Experience in both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to set priorities and handle multiple tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Professional demeanor and ability to work effectively with other staff within the organization
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic and self-starter.

Qualifications desired:

• Experience in wholesale or retail banking technology, especially money transfer (e.g. ISO20022, Faster Payments, SWIFT, Fedwire, RTGS, etc.) would be helpful
• Experience with IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ or DB2 is a plus
• Knowledgeable in Software Reliability Engineering, test automation and CI/CD processes and tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar Cube, Fortify, etc.
• Experience developing or migrating applications to Cloud Environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience developing applications in Erlang or other functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, etc. is a strong plus

Essential functions and responsibilities:

• Manage development, maintenance, and level 3 support
• Ensure adherence to all development and company policies
• Promote teamwork and work effectively cross-organizationally
• Develop/improve team skills, create and implement training plans and set development targets
• Effectively identify and manage risks
• Monitor performance metrics take corrective actions to improve quality and productivity

Success factors/job competencies:

• Resourceful when working independently
• Respectful of others when working collaboratively
• Easily adapt to new technology and design patterns
• Effectively supervise developers to ensure successful completion of tasks
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to prioritize appropriately

A reasonable, good faith estimate of the $180K/Annum to $215K/Annum with Benefits for this position.