Director of Engineering, Digital API Platforms
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Jacksonville
Posted on: October 30, 2024
Job Description:
Position Type : Full time Type Of Hire : Experienced (relevant
combo of work and education) Education Desired : Bachelor of
Computer Science Travel Percentage : 5 - 10%Job DescriptionWe are
FIS. Our technology powers the world's economy and our teams bring
innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best
products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities.
If you're ready to start learning, growing and making an impact
with a career in fintech, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?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--FIS is committed to providing its employees with
an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The
pay range for this full-time position is $138,600.00 - $232,850.00
and reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries
for this position based on the posted role, level, and location.
Within the range, actual individual starting pay is determined
additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and
relevant education or training. Any changes in work location will
also impact actual individual starting pay. Please consult with
your recruiter about the specific salary range for your preferred
location during the hiring process.Privacy StatementFIS is
committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal
information that we process in order to provide services to our
clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal
information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.EEOC
StatementFIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate
qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic
information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other
protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available
here supplement document available hereFor positions located in the
US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional
offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test.
ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken
to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this
position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have
been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All
reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on
a case-by-case basis.Sourcing ModelRecruitment at FIS works
primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of
our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept
resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred
supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for
resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part
of our company.#pridepass
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