Head of Engineering - Scottsdale, United States - Manufacturers Bank

Description

About the Organization
Manufacturers Bank was formed by a group of banking entrepreneurs in June 1962. Our scope is to serve the specialized needs of California middle-market businesses, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, importers, exporters, and service companies, including small businesses and professionals.

Our mission is to be "the bank of choice" for middle market and professional service companies by establishing long term customer relationships and loyalty, providing superior products and services through a core of highly skilled and seasoned bankers.
To achieve our mission to be the 'bank of choice' for middle market and professional services companies, we are focused on our vision to be the premier California regional business bank that can provide the sophistication and expertise of a larger institution with the personal 'high touch' services of a smaller bank.

Specialties:

Commercial Loans and Lines of Credit, Asset-Based Financing, SBA Loans, and Specialized Financing, Real Estate Loans, Cash Management Services, International Services

Description

JENIUS DIGITAL BANK MISSION STATEMENT:

Join us on our mission to create a completely new, 100% digital bank that truly serves customers' best interests. We are a close-knit and fun-loving team of seasoned financial services professionals who came together for the challenge of building a bank from scratch - and we are committed to doing it all the right way (from technology infrastructure to modern marketing to customer experience).

We work with the flexibility and speed of a start-up. But we also have significant stability and capital from being part of the SMBC Group (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation). SMBC is the 2nd largest bank in Japan and the 12th largest bank in the world with operations in over 40 countries. And SMBC is committed to disrupting the US marketplace with ground-breaking products.

It's the best of both worlds, and we are seeking proven marketing leaders to propel us towards a national launch. We have both the ambitious growth plans and the "patient capital" necessary to execute a multi-year plan. Join us on the journey to deliver an exciting concept of evolved banking.

GENERAL SUMMARY:

We are on a mission to build the best digital banking experiences for our customers, and we are looking for an SVP, Head of Engineering - Data Architecture, Engineering, and AI/ML who can help lead this mission. If you are passionate about challenging the status quo and building innovative new solutions to old problems, then we have an exciting opportunity for you"

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, implement and lead Data Architecture, Data Quality, Data Governance across the Digital Bank.
• Defining data modeling standards and foundational best practices.
• Support establishing data governance processes, procedures, policies, and guidelines to maintain the integrity and security of the data.
• Create and maintain critical data standards and metadata that allows data to be understood and leveraged as a shared asset.
• Lead the design of data schemes, object models, and flow diagrams to structure, store, process, and integrate data.
• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for data management and advanced ML/AI platforms.
• Apply hands-on subject matter expertise in the Architecture and administration of Big Data platforms, Data Lake Technologies and experience with ML and Data Science platforms.
• Implement and manage industry best practice tools and processes such as Data Lake, Delta Warehouse, ELT Tools, GCP, Big Query, Vertex A, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, DevOps.
• Define the strategy for Data Engineering and Platform engineering, work cross functionally to ensure key stakeholders, business and product requirements are aligned.
• Define, Develop, and Own short-term and long-term tech roadmap as well as development and ownership of tech stack, engineering lifecycle, and a development framework with strong input on the overall product roadmap and lifecycle.
• Be responsible for leading the Data Architecture, data platform engineering, AI/ML functions at the Digital Bank. You will shape the charter of the team.
• Lead the architecture and engineering team, including day to day execution and long-term planning. You will solicit new project ideas, prioritize them for impact, and drive execution across the organization.
• Work closely with other teams throughout the company and key 3rd party solution providers to enable data-driven decision making.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks and challenges associated with data architecture, engineering, and AI/ML projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in understanding a variety of complex business use cases and modeling the data in the data warehouse.
• Proven experience in building Enterprise Data Lake, Data Warehouse, ML Platforms.
• Knowledge of infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimization with Hands-on experience with GCP, Azure or equivalent.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must and work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams.
• Demonstrated industry leadership in the fields of Data Warehousing, Data Science, and Big Data related technologies.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and container-based development using Docker and Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent pattern recognition and predictive modeling skills. Experience with large imbalanced datasets.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• 15+ years of hands-on experience in Data Warehouse, ELT, Data Modeling & Reporting and leading engineering teams.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in productionizing and deploying Big Data platforms and applications, Hands-on experience working with: Relational/SQL, distributed columnar data stores/NoSQL databases, time-series databases, Data streaming, Kafka, GCP Platform, and more.
• Coaching and talent development skills including the ability to mentor and motivate others.
• Proven experience as a technical leader for managers of managers, as the leader of an engineering organization driving significant impact.
• Possess a deep understanding of how to translate product and business goals into tech strategies.
• Proven track record in developing and managing diverse technologies and systems.
• Extensive banking systems knowledge.
• Experience in working with matrix environment, large corporation/group companies' environment.
• Experience in supporting regulatory exams and audits, prioritizing, and completing critical findings.
• Practical experience with engineering and project management methodologies, including Scrum, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Microservices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, or similar.
• Experience with ML Ops systems.
• A drive to keep up and build on cutting edge research.

Full-Time/Part-Time
Full-Time

Position
Head of Engineering - Data Architecture, Engineering and AI/ML

Open Date
6/6/2023

Location
DBU - Arizona

Salary Range

EOE Statement
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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