Vice President, Head of Cloud Foundations - Federal Reserve Bank (FRB)

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When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The Vice President, Head of Cloud Foundations is accountable for end-to-end engineering leadership of the Cloud Foundation Services platforms supporting the applications across the Federal Reserve System. The Vice President is responsible for ensuring overall platform performance against the KPIs for availability, security, cost of operations. As the Head of Cloud Platforms, coordinates the platforms roadmaps with systemwide stakeholders, Product Managers, Architecture and Operations to create and deliver best enterprise ready capabilities. Closely aligning with System Enterprise Architects to develop the Cloud Platform capabilities to maintain conformity to overall system wide tech strategy and to minimize duplication of capabilities and services across the different platforms.

What You Will Do:

• Lead cloud platform strategy and solution engineering efforts from idea generation through execution including analysis, design and implementation with strong understanding of Dev/Sec/Ops philosophy and scaled agile methodologies.

• Partner with System CIOs and their delegates to build and maintain Integrated Cloud Platform roadmaps for their respective Reserve Bank.

• Sharing cloud platform strategy and execution updates to CIOs, executive leadership team and various governance committees on a periodic basis.

• Provide thought leadership and oversight to a team of engineers building cloud platform solutions and capabilities at scale with high engineering and quality standards.

• Responsible for managing full life cycle of the Cloud Platform/s including integration with all other dependent platforms to deliver end to end functional and non-functional requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required. Masters, MBA or an advanced degree, preferred.

• Five (5) to seven (7) years of executive leadership experience in a demanding environment, including experience in setting the strategic direction, being accountable for and delivering strategic objectives, aligning programs with the organization's strategic direction, and focusing on continuous improvement efforts within a complex IT organization. 

• Proven leader with working knowledge of, and experience with Product Management.

• Knowledge of cloud, software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD, automated testing and other related areas required to develop and build high-performance software delivery team supporting a broad coalition of business and their supporting application teams.

• Ability to operate successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team through changing work requirements and priorities, demanding deadlines, operational crisis situations, as well as being able to keep pace with multiple concurrent initiatives and develop and implement long term goals and operating plans.

• Ability to effectively navigate and achieve results on initiatives that have both a cross-functional and cross-district impact.

• Learning mindset geared toward innovation and creativity for applying technology capabilities in new ways, necessary for both the delivery of effective technology and business solutions.

• Strong inspirational leadership and motivational skills with the ability to effectively manage high performing staff and management teams.

• Strong communication skills, including outstanding presentation and persuasion capabilities, including the ability to effectively convey complex, sensitive issues and communicate to a variety of audiences including technical staff, peers, as well as senior management, and oversight bodies.

• Expertise in relationship management and an exemplary ability to manage stakeholder expectations through clear and transparent communications.

• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters with the appropriate level of judgment, discretion, and maturity.

• Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, and acts with authenticity.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserve’s National IT organization, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits

• Pension and 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee resource networks

• Paid volunteer leave

• Flexible work options

• Onsite amenities that make working here fun

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org.

• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).

• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.

• The hiring range for the Vice President, Head of Cloud Foundations role is $220,000 to $270,000.

• For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.

• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by September 27, 2024. Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

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The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers (https://rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS) or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

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