Director Software Engineering

Director Software Engineering - IE06FE

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The Group Benefits IT organization is looking for a transformational technology leader to help us modernize our Data Exchange platforms to both uplift our customer experience as well as drive significant advancements in our end-to-end delivery model as we move to the cloud.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Execution of the Data Exchange business and technology transformation within the Group Benefits portfolio (~11M annual budget)

• Experience driving cultural transformation in organizations, developing workforce strategies and experience with management of offshore partners

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to identify challenges and risks and proactively mitigate and manage the execution

• Leverage a deep technical acumen across a wide technology stack including Angular, .NET, Java, Informatica and AWS to ensure we have well-architected and designed epics and features that position us against our strategic goals

• Leadership of delivery teams, providing human resource management, coaching/mentoring and building the next generation and level of execution and application software engineering leaders.

• Strong communication skills to interact with executives across business, technology, and partner organizations along with demonstrated ability to influence

• Strong financial management skills and the ability to lead teams through Agile sizing approaches and provide transparency to Product ownership and CFO through measurable value utilizing FinOps best practices

• Demonstrated experience in maturing DevSecOps, improving automation to enable continuous delivery, leveraging GenAI Engineering solutions to uplift productivity and building high performing software engineering teams with a focus on continuous improvement

• Experience leading large, complex legacy application modernizations including cloud enablement and migration, including demonstrated experience leveraging reliability engineering approaches to optimize workloads executing in cloud

• Strong operational data acumen and experience driving data engineering best practices for efficient and effective delivery of new solutions and maintenance.

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). 

QUALIFICATIONS:

 

• 10+ years of IT leadership experience executing large scale programs and change management.

• Proven organizational transformational leadership across a large, complex organization to effectively build, manage, and scale cross-functional teams to deliver demonstrated outcomes

• Strong technology and delivery experience with large, transformational programs, specifically with SAFE Agile execution and building strong partnerships with Product Management to influence focus on business value

• Proven track record as a results-oriented IT leader that collaborates well with business leaders and manages business outcomes.

• Deep knowledge of technology, software development life cycle, experience in Agile methodology required

• Strong understanding of business strategy and aligning technology roadmaps to business

• Strong people leadership abilities with skills in coaching and mentoring talent

• Ability to successfully work across all levels of the organization, including interacting with senior management

• Proven ability to manage complex vendor relationships and experience working with an offshore delivery model

• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with thorough attention to detail

• Group Benefits experience is preferred

Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. T