Director, Engineering (Salesforce)

AssetMark•Charlotte, NC

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

AssetMark is seeking an experienced Director, Engineering, to lead an engineering team for our salesforce implementation. In this role, you will be responsible for building, managing, and developing a high-performing team of engineers while driving architectural decisions and technical execution for our salesforce implementations. As a key leader within the engineering organization, you will partner closely with a Director of Product to translate business requirements into technical solutions that advance AssetMark's wealth management platform capabilities, with specific focus on Financial Service Cloud. We can consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and is close to our Charlotte, NC office.

Requirements

Deep understanding and experience of working on Financial Service cloud on Salesforce.
Understanding of wealth management is a definite plus
Strong technical background with experience implementing modern software architectures, including microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications, especially hands on experience in Salesforce clouds – Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, etc.
Experience modernizing legacy systems and leading technical transformation initiatives
Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts for various audiences
Track record of successful collaboration with product management and business stakeholders
Experience implementing and optimizing agile development methodologies
15+ years of software engineering experience using Sales Cloud, Service Cloud or Financial Services Cloud with 4+ years in engineering management roles
Experience leading teams of 10+ engineers in a product-oriented environment
At least 2 years’ experience building technology solutions using Financial Service Cloud.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US to be considered.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple engineering teams or complex product areas
Define and implement technical strategy, establish engineering processes and standards, while aligning engineering execution to business goals.
“In the weeds” across sprint planning, story grooming, technical implementations, and other sprint ceremonies
Brings urgency, clarity and focus and resolution to incidents/outages involving team owned systems
Oversee technical design across multiple teams, review and approve complex architectural decisions, establish technical standards and best practices.
Balances short-term delivery with long-term tech health
Creates a culture of handling security, design, privacy, stability and quality coding ‘by default' with teams
Defines and implements engineering processes, create measures that improves team productivity.
Allocate engineering resources effectively, identify and mitigate delivery risks.
Serves as the ‘eye of the storm’ for balancing forward product velocity, tech debt reduction, strategic improvements, and other demands on teams time
Develops short-, medium- and long-term technical roadmaps
Leverages industry experience to inform technical strategy and implementations
Partner with product leaders on strategic initiatives, communicate technical vision to non-technical stakeholders, resolve cross-team technical conflicts.
Build and develop engineering teams, coach the junior team members, establish career paths and support recruitment as required.