Director, Digital Technology

Job Description:

AssetMark is a leading strategic provider of innovative investment and consulting solutions serving independent financial advisors. We provide investment, relationship, and practice management solutions that advisors use in helping clients achieve wealth, independence, and purpose.

The Job/What You'll Do:

The Director, Digital Technology will be considered a part of a group of next generation leaders, pushing the boundaries of where we want to be with technology. This leader will influence technology decisions across the organization. The Director, Digital Technology will partner closely with our dynamic business leaders to provide solutions to real problems that exist within a large innovative financial institution. The Director, Digital Technology will provide strategic vision and leadership for planning, architecture design and implementation of the information technology initiatives in support of the digital strategy in order to provide best in class digital experience for our customers. This Director will drive the overall transformation agenda, while continuing to deliver reliable IT services that are in place today.

We can consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Concord, CA office.

Responsibilities:

• Direct an applications development solutions group to support our Digital strategy.
• Develop the Digital technology roadmap and framework in support of the Digital priorities which will become the basis for business/IT priorities as well as the future technology strategy
• Lead end to end delivery of at least 3 Digital technical squads overseeing the Technical design , Code review process, Quality assurance as well as DevOps processes around those squads
• Lead the newer Security framework design, version updates and implementation of feature functionality
• Lead the design and oversee the implementation of digital application data needs end to end for the satisfactory rollout of the application feature.
• Lead the Agile transformation for the IT and Digital teams
• Champion our cloud and containerization initiatives on behalf of strategic delivery
• Establish a trusted, close-touch relationship with the business product team. Interfacing with key stakeholders internally and externally
• Supplement internal resources with outside expertise as required
• Develop and mentor a high performing team, focused on timely delivery and creative solutions, ensuring succession as well as their own people development objectives 
• Manage offshore resources, ensuring vendor alignment with AssetMark’s strategic goals and interests
• Stay current on industry trends and leading technologies and have a burning desire to provide the best customer experience
• Other Duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Exceptional technical skills, marked by poise, positive influence, and the ability to drive change
• Ability to credibly contribute to business discussions and influence strategic and commercial outcomes across the business
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to influence senior product leaders across both the business and technology
• Demonstrated advanced ability to use integrated and conceptual thinking to solve problems
• Significant expertise establishing and developing strong working relationships with all levels of associates, while maintaining appropriate levels of objectivity to their work
• Demonstrated ability to employ judgment and experience to make rapid, complex decisions
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and communications skills (written and oral)
• Results orientation; ability to remove obstacles and hold people accountable for achieving challenging business results
• Attention to detail, good team dynamics, and an ability to work independently as needed
• Intellectually curious; interested in understanding and experimenting with new leading-edge technologies
• A management style that is collaborative, energetic, results-oriented, and innovative
• Proven track record of being able to identify top technical talent and inspire and manage through change
• Ability to establish credibility with, as well as motivate and mentor, highly technical engineers
• Player-coach for the team, ability to lead by example.

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