Chapter Leader

Description:

As a Strategic Advisors Technology chapter Leader, you blend deep Engineering solutions and practices with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. In an agile structure you will collaborate with other leaders to establish the standards for your chapter, influence the strategic decisions and build solutions with your expertise. You will directly manage a number of squads who primarily work within autonomous squads across a product area, but report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping them grow and develop in their knowledge area and ensure alignment on the “how” of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

You will spend a percentage of your time applying your expertise and experience to help advance the work and improve squad performance.

The Teams

You work in partnership with Squad Leads (Product Owners) and other Chapter Leaders aligned to Asset Management Account Management Product Area to ensure consistent standards and quality.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.
• This role requires 15+ years’ of proven technology leadership experience in designing and building highly scalable software solutions.
• Expertise in Engineering methodologies in at least one tier of the stack and strong awareness and appreciation in the other tiers.
• Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams
• Experience identifying and acquiring talent needs; and resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Financial services experience, preferred but not required

The Skills You Bring

• You are an inspirational people leader, capable of developing others to accelerate their journey to mastery.
• You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with which you build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Strong ability to work across numerous squads and balancing the priorities of business and technology demands
• Have a continuous improvement mentality and encourage an Agile way of working
• You optimally develop and proactively share your knowledge and perspectives and build the same expectation within your chapter
• You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
• Champions practices and capability development across the squad in areas such as Quality, Automation, DevOps, CI/CD, Design, and Code Reviews