Technical Director (Financial Services)
Technical Director, Financial Services
Who We Are
The firm's North American Financial Services AI Studio works with banks, payment providers, insurers and asset management firms. Its global teams rebuild core systems and put AI agents to work so clients lend faster, launch products sooner and run leaner.
The Role
Partner with each client's engagement and relationship owners to guide the client through their transformation journey.
Salary:
What You’ll Do
- Technology Strategy. Own each client's technology strategy, from its direction and target architecture to its roadmap and technical risk.
- Set the technology direction to align systems with business goals.
- Design the target architecture to guide platform and data choices.
- Build the technology roadmap to order system changes by value and dependency.
- Manage technical risk to keep solutions within the client's controls and regulations.
- Delivery Leadership. Lead each client's multi-regional, multidisciplinary teams across concurrent programs to ensure cost-effective, responsive delivery.
- Steer new engagements to AI Pods, the firm's fast, governed and predictable AI-assisted delivery offering.
- Hire and develop teams with the right engineers and AI agents to meet demand.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications to guide development.
- Define the engineering and quality assurance standards to deliver reliable, resilient solutions within agreed service levels.
- Business Development. Design best-fitting solution architectures that win proposals.
- Identify each client's unmet technology needs to open new engagements.
- Generate ideas for new technology initiatives that accelerate the client's business objectives.
- Prototype new technology to prove feasibility and value to win the engagement.
What You Bring
- Hold a degree or equivalent experience in computer science, software engineering or data science.
- Apply knowledge of financial services technology stacks, cloud, data and integration to improve how platforms grow business.
- Deliver a higher return on client technology spend by building enterprise-class solutions with AI-powered software development.
- Apply DevSecOps practices to AI-assisted engineering to release secure code faster and more reliably.
Preferred
- A Master of Business Administration (MBA) on top of a technology background.
Experience
- Industry experience. 10+ years building technology solutions for financial services companies.
- Solution architecture. Demonstrated record of architecting solutions that lift client results and firm margin.
- Commercial acumen. Demonstrated record of initiating ideas that progress to funded client engagements.
- Stakeholder management. Act as trusted advisor to each client's technology leaders to keep them aligned on choices, risks and trade-offs.
- Executive communication. Build decision-ready presentations around the buyer's priorities and metrics to earn their approval.
Benefits for this position will likely include the following:
- Unlimited paid time off
- Healthcare benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance benefits
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and a potential company match.
- Parental leave for both birthing (up to 14 weeks of paid leave) and non-birthing parents (up to 4 weeks paid leave), as well as adoption leave (up to 8 weeks of paid leave), subject to qualifications
- Child hospitalization leave (up to 15 paid calendar days per year), subject to qualifications
- “Be kind to yourself day” on your anniversary (subject to terms and conditions)
- Graduation and birthing gifts, subject to eligibility
- Paid Jury duty (up to 4 weeks a year), subject to eligibility
- Paid moving days (up to 2 days a year), subject to eligibility
- Approximately 12 paid company holidays a year
Accommodations:
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Remote Work:
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