Director of Engineering, Digital API Platforms - Jobs for Humanity

Role and Responsibilities 

Reporting to the Head of Digital Development Enablement, the Director of Digital API Platforms will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Banking Solutions business. In a leadership role in the Digital Technology organization, you will be responsible for transforming our API platforms and driving the movement of the next generation of digital API platforms.  With a focus on digital APIs and serverless cloud technologies, you will collaborate closely with product leaders, and other stakeholders to align product milestones and deliver innovative digital applications and experiences. In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's digital transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive digital banking landscape. Specifically, the Director of Digital API Platforms will be responsible for the following: 

• Partnering closely with the broader Digital Engineering organization, and Banking product organization to deliver roadmaps and plans to introduce Node and Serverless API capabilities into their platforms. 

• Delivering high-quality and high-performance API solutions to our clients and customers for all product areas in the Digital Solutions business. 

• Keeping up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies in the API a cloud technology space and bring innovative ideas and best practices to drive continuous improvement. 

• Owns the design, execution, rollout, and evangelism of the API platforms. 

• Plan and coordinate reviews and approval of technical deliverables. 

• Continuously improve patterns, practices, and operational efficiency within the team. 

• Conduct assessments, build blueprints and roadmaps, build proofs of concept, and write technical points of view. 

Charter 

• Lead a team of API engineering experts as we look to stand up a new Serverless Node based API platform on AWS. 

• Analyze current API technologies utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and migrate them towards the target stated of Node/Serverless. 

• Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration. 

• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other team members. 

• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, workforce and time necessary. 

• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution. 

• Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently. 

• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide. 

• Work alongside digital delivery teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives. 

Professional Qualifications 

• Extensive public cloud API experience within AWS 

• Previous experience in large scale API platform buildouts in the public cloud. 

• Experience with serverless Technolgies and use cases, Fargate, Lambda, Functions, etc 

• Experience with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments 

• Ability to analyze how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. 

• Extensive experience with migration of legacy API technologies like Spring/WCF, to cloud native technologies like Node/Lambda and execution of those plans. 

• Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation. 

• Demonstrated project development and leadership skills. 

• Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures 

• Preferred degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar relevant field preferred 

• Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles and processes (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevOps) and continuous improvement through measurement. 

• Excellent communicator, highly innovative with a low ego, capable of motivating and energizing direct reports and peers, with a proven ability to create a highly collaborative working environment. 

Personal Characteristics 

• Demonstrates judgment and flexibility; thinks about issues and develops solutions that thoughtfully take the broader context into account - positively deals with a shifting demand for time, priorities, and the rapid change of environments. 

• Takes an ownership approach to engineering and product outcomes. 

• Action-oriented self-starter who can set strategy and drive execution with a “roll up the sleeves” approach. 

• Excellent interpersonal communication, negotiation and influencing skills to work effectively with all stakeholders (internal & external), making information-based decisions. 

• Penchant for excellence, both personally and professionally, demonstrated by intellectual curiosity, record of accomplishment, and reputation; shows strong attention to detail and implementation of best practices with an inclination for continuous improvement. 

• Ability to quickly establish strong credibility with employees, business partners and external resources. 

• Embodies and delivers the firm's values and culture towards colleagues, clients, and communities: 

• Win as one team 

• Lead with integrity 

• Be the change