Head of Engineering - Midland, United States - Mirador

Description

Company Overview

Grounded in Wall Street and enabled by technology, Mirador combines powerful data science and deep financial expertise to provide best-of-breed financial reporting services for U/HNW investment portfolios.

We are a firm in the Wealth Management industry that supports the performance-reporting requirements of Family Offices, Wealth and Asset Managers, and Foundations throughout the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America.

We are expanding rapidly with new clients and offerings, and as such are staffing to meet the need. Our firm is at the intersection of finance and technology.

There's a difference between being a part of an industry and taking an active role in reimagining it. Our team is fundamentally changing one of the world's largest growing industries-financial reporting. Other companies may offer similar services, but we have no true competition. To learn more about the benefits of working for Mirador, please visit our website.

Position Overview

Mirador's Head of Engineering & Advanced Analytics will be responsible for overseeing a team of 3-4 developers.

This team is responsible for the creation of cutting-edge technology that will automate critical wealth management reporting processes and give Mirador a competitive advantage on the reporting solutions it can provide their clients.

This manager will have close connectivity with our senior partners who are championing this business-critical initiative and will report into our Chief Innovation officer.

Responsibilities

You will oversee the building of our document processing engine with an emphasis on service-oriented architecture.

These components will be built using:
Python
SQL (Postgres)
REST-ful HTTP
SalesForce

AWS

• You will provide strategic direction in the development of tools to perform extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) on data retuned from offtheshelf opticalcharacterrecognition artificial intelligence components (implemented as web services) into wealth management portal software
• You will provide feedback to the user interface (UI) development team and work with them on the design of our own RESTful APIs
• Your team will design, architect and support data development projects focusing primarily on our financial reporting solutions and service
• Oversee the evaluation and implementation of vendor application software and tools
• Oversee and manage the quality and timeliness of the organization's products, and identification and remediation of potential issues before they become problems
• Develop and manage detailed budgets and schedules and create work assignments for indirect tasking
• Guide the team in applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools using development methodology

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or related degree
• Experience in managing a team of developers or technology professionals with various years of experience and capabilities
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with experience in ETL utilizing both enterprise tools and custom tools
• Experience in design/architecture experience in data workflows and routing design
• Strong expertise in Python development for web-based applications
• 8+ years of experience with on-prem database administration (PostgreSQL, mongoDB, MySQL)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (Redshift, S3, EC2, EMR, etc.)
• NLP NER experience
• Experience with profiling for Train/Validation/Test datasets

Experience with modern frameworks:
TensorFlow, PyTorch

• Front end web developer skills a plus
• Experience with SalesForce APIs or Heroku is a plus
• Interest in learning new systems and technologies within the wealth management industry
• Strong process and project-management skills with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, re-prioritize or problem solve as needed and ensure accurate delivery - start to finish/testing environment to production
• Extremely detail oriented
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and concisely
• Approaches work with a mindset to continuously improve and streamline processes

Mirador is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Mirador is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

By submitting an application for this position, I confirm that the information in the application is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

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