Associate Director Staff Engineer - Software

OneMain Financial-posted 2 months ago
$160,000 - $180,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Baltimore, MD
5,001-10,000 employees
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This role has transitioned into a technical leadership track. This role has developed the skills to partner and influence other teams toward business targets and goals. This individual is building deep, specialized expertise and is able to engage within technical and business teams. This role might serve as a SME on a team or lead a small team of technical experts supporting a larger effort, and may consult to business teams. When successful, this individual may be recognized for leading a particular technical implementation or leveraging sophisticated knowledge to benefit a larger team. Takes full responsibility of complex, cross-functional projects and ensures successful execution and delivery. Demonstrates a proactive approach to resolving challenges and holds themselves accountable for the successes and challenges of broader team efforts. Communicates within team and with team's business stakeholders to influence architectural decisions and trade-offs in the lane. Effectively communicates complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and clearly explains moderately complex team-level concepts. Recognizes viable opportunities for innovation and actively drives the adoption of innovative techniques and tools within the team. Leads innovation efforts in line with organizational goals. Participates in developing creative solutions to complex problems. Demonstrates an exceptional ability to break down intricate problems into manageable components, conducting thorough analysis to identify root causes and interdependencies. Encourages collaborative thinking and cohesiveness within the team; acts as a bridge between teams, ensuring synchronization of efforts. Generally, builds rapport and collaborates effectively with a broad spectrum of people and offers help to other team based on a specific area of expertise. Guides and mentors team members by providing feedback and coaching, especially during challenging situations. Encourages people to challenge themselves and helps others stretch their capabilities.

  • Own delivery of decisioning platforms end-to-end, ensuring on-time, high-quality implementation of core components of Decisioning infrastructure that power credit, pricing, and risk strategies.
  • Build and deliver reusable decisioning components for rule authoring, versioning, simulation, testing, and observability, ensuring solutions are scalable, reusable, and explainable.
  • Lead the rollout of a cloud-native, modular decisioning platform using Drools, Java, and Spring Boot, modernizing legacy mainframe-driven logic into centralized, API-driven services.
  • Establish and manage delivery frameworks, governance processes, and best practices for business rule lifecycle, from harvesting through production deployment.
  • Build and enforce robust automation and testing frameworks to guarantee reliability and regression safety across decisioning services.
  • Drive operational excellence by integrating telemetry, monitoring, and automated feedback loops into the platform, ensuring proactive detection of issues and continuous optimization of rule effectiveness.
  • Mentor engineering teams and provide hands-on leadership to ensure execution quality, unblock delivery challenges, and maintain alignment to architectural vision.
  • Present progress, risks, and delivery roadmaps to senior leadership, ensuring visibility, accountability, and alignment across business and technology stakeholders.
  • Innovate with GenAI-powered decisioning capabilities, including natural language rule authoring and automated rule documentation, to accelerate delivery cycles and business usability.
  • Familiarity with observability and monitoring frameworks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus) and building automated regression testing pipelines.
  • Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams and collaborating closely with business stakeholders to align on priorities, resolve conflicts, and drive execution.
  • Knowledge of GenAI applications in decision automation, particularly natural-language rule authoring and AI-assisted rule validation.
  • Ability to balance architectural vision with delivery discipline, ensuring solutions are delivered with quality, speed, and measurable business impact.
  • 6 – 8 Years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience managing/maintaining distributed systems.
  • Conversant in many technologies and languages, able to learn new technologies quickly.
  • Proactively applies industry leading technology trends, best practices, design principles and patterns, and methods including Agile software development, iterative delivery, and cloud computing.
  • Experience and proficiency with cloud platforms and patterns, preferably AWS.
  • Uses critical thinking to reach conclusions and analytical thinking for problem solving in support of achieving desired outcomes.
  • Applies enthusiasm for continuous learning to improve results and shares with others.
  • BS degree in a computer related field.
  • Experience with IBM ODM, Drools, Kogito, BPMN, JBPM.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift.
  • Experience with monitoring and testing tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
  • Experience with Agile tools like Jira, Confluence, Miro.
  • Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances.
  • Up to 4% matching 401(k).
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount).
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date).
  • Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date.
  • Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date).
  • Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date).
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