Director Engineering - Integration Platform

Empowered to live. Inspired to work.
Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.

How we support you:

• Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.

To learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers. 

Where you will work:
This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% remote and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The contributions you will make: 

This position leads the development and continued evolution of Compeer’s Integration Platform, creating capabilities to enable and accelerate delivery of seamless, unified, and integrated client, field officer, and partner experiences. The enterprise integration platform team builds and supports low-latency, scalable, reliable, secure, and high performing enterprise API's and technology capabilities that reduce the direct reliance on back-end systems of record. Partners with leaders across Compeer to understand enterprise integration needs and collaboratively develop integration technology strategy.

A typical day: 

• Strategic Leadership and Execution
  • Champions the brand; serves as a role-model for Compeer's vision, mission and values.
  • Enables innovative and performant integration for client, field officer, and third party partner experience product teams with back-end systems of record.
  • Develops and executes transformation and roadmap of capabilities needed to deliver seamless, unified, and integrated client, third party partner, and field officer experiences.
  • Defines and shapes the API-first engineering culture and mindset across the Development and Delivery (D&D) teams; supports a high-trust environment where best practices such as “blameless retros” are highly-effective.
  • Leads the team to develop and mature enterprise integration capabilities, including but not limited to API Management, Real-time and Batch Integration Pattern solutions, Data Caching, Low Latency, HA, System Resiliency, Microservices Architectures, Containerization, and Serverless Computing.
  • Partners with system of record leaders in developing and maintaining unified Compeer Integration Platform that enables our go-to-market strategy.
  • Champions the integration platform as a Technology Product that offers competitive advantage for the organization.
  • Partners across the BT Team including the Infrastructure & Operations, Enterprise Architecture, and Security & Risk Management to align on strategy and accelerate development and deployment of seamless, unified, and integrated experiences.
  • Drives continuous improvement across software engineering capabilities by keeping abreast of integration best practices.
• Team Leadership
  • Creates and promotes a positive culture and work environment that leverages team member talents and abilities in achieving goals of the D&D Compeer Integration Platform team.
  • Creates and promotes a values and trust-based culture of high-performance and execution across the D&D Compeer Integration Platform team.
  • Selects, develops, motivates, and engages talent to create and maintain a high-performing team; ensures a talent-pipeline to meet the future needs of the team.
  • Effectively initiates, inspires and leads change within the team.
  • Creates/modifies team structure and identifies capabilities and roles needed to evolve the team as new system integration capa