Director, Asset Management Technology

Raymond James•St Petersburg, FL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Partners at all levels of the organization to develop, implement, and execute an organization-wide IT strategy that optimizes employee capabilities, achieves the organization's strategic objectives, and delivers competitive advantage. Job Description This position follows our hybrid workstyle policy: Expected to be in a Raymond James office location a minimum of 10-12 days a month. Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Requirements

Hands-on senior tech lead with experience managing both mainframe (HPNS) and distributed technology resources
Knowledgeable in .NET (Classic ASP/.NET), SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Experience in Java client and server-side development, Spring Framework, and microservices architecture
Experience with Angular, JavaScript, HTML
Extensive experience in integrating database business processes and rules with middle-tier services
Proficiency in using ETL tools and methods to rationalize data from diverse sources such as Oracle, SQL Server, Amazon AWS, and MS Access.
Experience with platform-specific and platform-agnostic ETL tools (e.g., AWS Glue, Informatica, Apache Airflow).
Expertise in building job orchestration workflows using tools like Control-M, Autosys, and ActiveBatch.
Experienced with leading onshore and offshore development teams.
Proven experience with both waterfall and agile development life cycle.
Strong understanding of application instrumentation and software vulnerability remediation.
Strong knowledge of the Financial Services industry, front, middle, and back-office experience is a plus.
Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
Operates as a recognized expert to shift into and out of a mental mindset associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically known as a subject matter authority.
Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on strategic planning.
Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on developing and implementing policies.
Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on making sure the organization develops and maintains the culture, values and design it needs to reach its objectives while managing structural change.
More than five years of development leadership experience, three years as a developer or architect lead and project manager.
Skilled in Vendor Management, Project Management, Enterprise Implementation, and Application Development.
Financial services industry experience specifically with asset and wealth management
General Experience – 10 to 15 years
Manager Experience - 6 to 10 years

Nice To Haves

Knowledgeable in mainframe (HPNS) a Plus
Expertise in system performance tuning and experienced with actor-based framework or Kafka is a plus.

Responsibilities

Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
Lead the development and implementation of strategy for an important area of responsibility within a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider functional strategy.
Participate in the development of corporate strategy for a small local organization, applying functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process
Effective in managing and leading a virtual team across functional area or department. Focus is on a specific smaller area of the organization, such as a sub-function or division. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings, seminars, and conferences.
Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
Provide authoritative specialist advice to senior managers at the business unit or regional level to enable the implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.
Develop tactical plans for optimizing resources and assets being managed within a significant area or department.
Expert in performing as an individual contributor and SME as well as well as a senior technology lead across key functional areas
Manage budget plans for a department. May involve development or delivery or both.
Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
Contribute to the definition of organization structure by recommending reporting lines, identifying interfaces between elements of the organization, and proposing roles and responsibilities, to align with the corporate structure and organization principles.
Evaluate the capabilities of staff within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities.
Implement the organization's formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility.
Coach and mentor others to support the development of the organization's talent pool.