Fast growing and highly successful financial services firm seeks your combination financial technology application development, team leadership, and strategic fintech solutions strategy skills for the position of SVP, Application Development.
The role will be primarily responsible for technology application solutions strategy and overall implementation impacting business and administrative areas. This role will report directly to the CTO and be a critical member of the IT Leadership Team.
This role will manage and support the people, projects, resources, applications, development and delivery related to the Technology application solutions aligned to the firm’s Strategy. Serve as the primary liaison between IT and its’ client base by being the advocate to ensure that IT is servicing them at an exceptional standard. Responsible for the identification and services’ analysis of any business opportunities which require or could leverage Technology integration or development. Services’ analysis focuses on areas such as, solutions alignment, cost justification/ROI, approvals and initial staffing/ resource requirements.
Provide frequent communications with the client(s) to confirm priorities and make certain that IT is being used most effectively. Key areas of focus are understanding the underlying business processes supported to ensure IT deliverables are aligned to the task, supplying the most efficient solutions, factoring in all relevant Audit and Regulatory constraints, reflecting the most effective use of applicable technology and designing in the flexibility to accommodate the high pace of change.
This role will manage a team of approximately 15-20 employees across various technology platform solutions.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
? Define and execute company technology application solutions strategy.
? Align, formulate, validate, link, and implement 3 to 5-year plan for area of responsibility with total IT and corporate vision.
? Proactively identify aging or redundant technologies within the existing technology inventory which have been eclipsed by newer products, application solutions or services that may better suited to support expanding business needs; establish a sunset program to retire outdated technologies and applications.
? Identify, evolve and implement workflow portals and partner with both the business and operations to identify and implement external client and internal employee experience solutions.
? Primary oversight and management of projects related to Application and Process Development solutions
? Directly manage multiple concurrent projects, both simple and extremely complex.
? Sustain knowledge and experience in Technology delivery to the supported client areas.
Key technologies include: Web application solutions, Content & Documentation Management
Systems, Salesforce & Lightning/Apex, Report-building, MS-SQL, MS Office, Database, MS Development (C#, .Net) environment, SSRS, SSIS, Informatica, Java/Groovy
? Ensure that the relevant governance and control processes are invoked and reflected for projects.
? Define and establish benchmarks and quality measures for area of responsibility.
? Participate in disaster recovery and contingency planning.
? Ensure that Information Security Technology controls and processes are followed, architected and tested throughout the entire lifecycle of Development.
? Effectively manage relevant 3rd party vendor relationships, while demonstrating excellent vendor management skills.
? Support and participate in the overall IT Governance structure, with specific emphasis on, Application Architecture, Services Integration, Quality/Testing Management and alignment with Enterprise Data Architecture.
? Drive knowledge, component and service sharing into the team.
? Focus on the implementation of cost-effective, extensible and supportable solutions (whether 3rd party or bespoke)
? Support a continuous development and integration methodology and release process (full DevOps lifecycle)
? Improve the stability and resiliency of all relevant Production processes. Institute a robust model addressing process/application failures. Ensure that a suite of Operational metrics are gathered reflecting progress.
? This role will manage a team of approximately 15-20 employees across various technology platform solutions (i.e., Salesforce, Avoka, C#/.Net, etc.).
? Responsible for career planning, career development, performance evaluations, goal setting and training plans for reporting employees.
? Provide mentorship to the entire organization in Application Development & Integration, ensuring that the material is properly tailored to the context of the recipient audience.
? Support the forecasting, management and tracking of the department budget.
? Institute a strong culture of collaboration, responsibility, learning and mentorship.
? Work with internal sales and external clients to assess scalable process and data integration solutions.
? As the prime liaison between IT and the client:
? Business/IT opportunity (value added role):
— Know the business and IT
— Stay apprised of client business plan and direction
— Act as a technology visionary
— Apply technology to business
— Gather defensive/offensive intelligence
— Provide consulting and guidance to corporate management on effective use of IT
? Relationship Manager:
— Understand the business
— Determine the right services for our clients
— Assess IT’s effectiveness
— Represent client’s point of view
— Develop a good working rapport with client base with excellent communications.
? Resource Integration:
— Identify project team requirements and capital requirements
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree
15+ years information technology experience of which time was spent in applications development and in support of the computer systems environment with experience leading projects of all sizes and complexity.
Strong background in requirements definitions, translating customer needs, market trends, strategic imperatives into business requirement documents and functional requirement specifications.
Proven experience in agile leadership managing projects and teams.
Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels both within and outside of the organization.
Strong Object / Relational mapping experience and ETL principles/knowledge.
Experience with developing integration solutions and ecosystems that decouple data from systems of records and presentation systems that scale.
Expertise in Service Oriented Architecture design, web/RESTful services, and event-driven architecture.
Experience in designing for 24 x 7 availability in a complex, batch and real-time driven environments.
Ability to influence others, up to the senior/executive level with outstanding presentation development and delivery skills.
Ability to successfully drive projects, processes and change management concepts in a dynamic and complex operating environment.
Broad knowledge of, and practical experience with, financial institution operating areas, functions, products and services and the laws and regulations that apply.
Proven track record of successful leadership in ensuring buy-in at all levels including developers, architects, peers, middle and senior management.
Self-driven and motivated individual.
Effective experience with 3rd party vendor products and integration.
Proven, advanced development skills in the Microsoft/C#/.Net/MS-SQL Technology stack.
Experience with Java, Groovy, AngularJS and other web development and delivery technologies.
PREFERRED SKILLS:
5+ years prior work experience in a financial services industry.
Working knowledge of trust and portfolio accounting systems, IRAs and alternative assets
Five+ years prior work experience in a financial services industry.
IRA/IRS rules and regulations knowledge and experience.
Master’s Degree Preferred.
Familiarity with Avoka and/or other Transaction Portal solutions
Familiarity with Salesforce and the Apex/Lightning Development environment
***PLEASE CONTACT BRAD@LELANDSHAW.COM FOR MORE DETAILS