Director Software Engineering - Santa Ana, United States - O. C. Credit Union

O. C. Credit Union

Verified Company

Santa Ana, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Exciting Leadership Opportunity at Orange County's Credit Union

CREDIT UNION'S PURPOSE:
Simple Banking. For People, Not Profit.

CREDIT UNION'S CORE VALUES:
Integrity, Service Excellence, Growth & Development, High Performance, Mutual Respect, Community, and Fun

Workplace Excellence. Through our associates' opinions and voices, Orange County's Credit Union is a proud recipient of the Peter Barron Stark Best of the Best Award for highest associate satisfaction in the workplace As a leading financial service provider with over 80 years of experience serving 123,000+ members, Orange County's Credit Union is currently $2+ billion in assets & growing.

GENEROUS BENEFITS INCLUDING:

Anthem Vivity HMO & Delta Care USA Dental
Orange County's Credit Union (OCCU) covers 100% of the associates' monthly premium
Life insurance at no cost to employee.
401(k) OCCU automatically contributes 3% of the employee's earnings PLUS matches up to 5% of the employee's contribution (dollar for dollar)
Vacation hours 18 days per year and rolls over year to year, and increases with tenure
Sick hours 7 days per year and rolls over year to year
Paid Holidays 12 days per year plus 3 partial days
Annual performance merit increases
Professional and personal development programs, including educational grants up to $2k per year, and step progression opportunities
Annual discretionary bonus
Professional, friendly work environment focused on achieving goals, recognizing successes, and excelling at member service.

***: In collaboration with Business (e.g., Member Experience, Product Management, Marketing) and IT (e.g., PMO, Infrastructure, Information Security) partners, the Director, Software and Data Engineering will lead the delivery efforts for enterprise-scale business solutions, actionable business insights, and frictionless member experiences while leveraging product-focused agile solution delivery processes, CI/CD automation and DevSecOps practices. Additionally, s/he will be driving innovation efforts that deliver meaningful growth and operational efficiencies for the Credit Union.

The Director, Software and Data Engineering must be an initiator, self-motivated, creative, agile, accountable, and must be able to balance efficiency with effectiveness.

Strong analytical and interpersonal skills are a necessity.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Work closely with Business and IT executives to ensure the team's delivery and focus are in alignment with enterprise strategic goals and objectives.
Maintain oversight of all strategic and tactical initiatives; ensure that commitments are properly planned, staffed, monitored, and reported; coordinate activities and deliverables across multiple teams while resolving issues, removing roadblocks and ensuring priorities are aligned.
Lead solution delivery efforts on enterprise initiatives that require new / enhanced digital products and data analytics capabilities, and manage daytoday baseline operations for accountable area / systems.
Provide strategic and tactical guidance on solving complex business problems by incorporating data engineering and analytics best practices and leveraging modern data science programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R, Scala, SAS) and Azure data and analytics services.
Partner with senior product management leaders to shape product roadmaps that deliver superior member and associate experience, drive organic growth and improve operational efficiency.
Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be leveraged to strengthen the Credit Union's digital product offerings, data analytics capabilities, and engineering practices.
Lead vendor / RFP technical evaluation efforts, drive new product / solution proofsof concept, and formulate new implementation strategies to foster innovation efforts that can deliver meaningful growth and operational efficiency for the Credit Union.
Support vendor contract negotiation, establish / maintain positive working relationship with key vendors / service providers, and manage their performance against established SLA's.
Participate in the Annual Operating Plan process and manage expense against budget for accountable cost center.
Act as a playercoach by providing handson leadership for the architecture, design and development of new digital products / analytics solutions as well as daytoday engineering activities while guiding / mentoring technical managers and leading / motivating the team towards common goals while maintaining a high level of performance.
Participate in the Integrated Business-Technology Steering Committee and Data Governance Committee. Support established processes for centralizing intake of new requests, managing and prioritizing product backlog related to digital products and data analytics capabilities, and leading grooming and refinement activities. Hold responsibility f