ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

The Team: The Market Intelligence, Content Tools & Platforms group is focused on transforming the myriad of technologies and platforms that exist today into a standard platform built using the latest tech stack. Our Associate Director are key to realizing our vision of a set of cohesive capabilities that enable the business to rapidly develop and evolve data assets and insights through amazing stakeholder experiences. As a group, we want to modernize our entire business with strategic deployments of open source, cross-cloud, and emerging technologies and solutions. As cultural leaders, we expect our architects to help evolve our architecture and engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the technology environment.
• Formulate and communicate technical vision and strategy to technology and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to analyze and formalize requirements.
• Establish the collaboration framework for multiple scrum teams.
• Mentor development teams around deliveries and quality of delivery
• Manage developers for the assigned team.
• Participate in technology selection.
• Control and accelerate solution development.
• Conduct code, design, and architectural reviews.
• Support project and program management
• Participate in project planning and estimation.

What We re Looking For:

Qualifications:

• Bachelors/master s degree in computer science, Information Systems or equivalent
• Over 15 years of hands-on software engineering experience with a proven track record of success.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft technology frameworks, solutions, and tools
• Experience designing and developing applications at an enterprise level.
• Proficiency in cloud development, with a preference for AWS
• Experience with designing and building large-scale application platforms.
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning, especially in SQL Server.
• Excellent problem-solving & troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of Business Analysis and DevOps
• Strong project and program management skills
• Knowledge of the Financials Data industry is a plus.
• Experience in Data Science and Machine Learning is an added advantage.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Analytical mindset with a strong focus on data-driven decision-making
• Strong aptitude for project and resource management
• Collaborative and team-oriented approach
• Skilled in persuasion and negotiation, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders.