Sr. Manager, Data Platform Engineering - Cloud

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

This position is a technical managerial role, reporting to the Sr Director of Analytics Technical Platform; and is responsible for leading and directing the design, development and implementation of the analytics platform cloud infrastructure, including the transition of some workloads from on-prem to the public cloud.

Essential Functions

Leadership & Strategy

• Leads a team in the architecture and engineering of a particular AWS data platform
• Actively contributes toward the vision, strategy, organization and leadership of the cloud engineering function. 
• Defines and enforces cloud engineering best practices, standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Works closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into cloud infrastructure designs.
• Provides technical expertise, and guidance to ensure the delivery of resilient, scalable, secure and efficient cloud-based solutions.
• Provides effective leadership in developing highly engaged, high-performance Teams.

Cloud Infrastructure

• Leads complex and high visibility end to end projects through design, testing, implementation and performance monitoring.
• Collaborates with architects and internal engineering customers to migrate microservices from first party infrastructure to AWS.
• Manages service deployments and has a strong knowledge of CI/CD systems and Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• Partners with security, network, and software delivery on continuous improvement of platform.
• Keeps senior management informed of department progress, problems and solutions.
• Support the company’s commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data
• The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/ or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field. 
• Minimum eight (8) years or more of progressive direct and/or related experience in Engineering, Architecture, etc; with at least 3 (3) or more years of experience with public cloud infrastructure.
• Proven track record in leading one or more engineering teams, building public cloud infrastructure is required; experience with AWS is highly preferred
• Minimum 3 years on hands-on engineering management experience including Agile development best practices and experience both as a product owner and scrum master.
• Experience with comprehensive technology delivery that is secure and reliable including disaster recovery planning and operations, storage area network and redundant, highly available server and network architectures.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with security practices to protect sensitive data in public cloud environments such as encryption (at rest and in flight), tokenization and key management
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools such as CI/CD pipelines, version control systems and configuration management, monitoring and alerting.
• Ability to own and manage technical debt and security vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results.
• Must be able to excel in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent leadership, communications and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple deadline-driven projects simultaneously.
• Background and drug screen.

Preferred Qualifications

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