Director of Technology

Equifax • St. Louis, MO

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you. Equifax is seeking creative, high-energy, diverse and driven software engineers with hands-on development skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about technology.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required
• 5+ years’ experience in Team and People Management
• You have experience developing accessible technologies
• You are interested and able to learn other coding languages as needed
• You can write very high quality code that is robust and easy to maintain
• You have experience in debugging, diagnosing, and trouble-shooting complex, production software
• You adore working in a fast paced and agile development environment
• You possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities, and proven design skills
• You have detailed knowledge of modern software development lifecycles including CI / CD
• You have the ability to operate across a broad and complex business unit with multiple stakeholders
• You have an understanding of the key aspects of finance especially as related to Technology. Specifically including total cost of ownership and value
• You are a self-starter, highly motivated, and have a real passion for actively learning and researching new methods of work and new technology
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including business leaders

Nice To Haves

• Generative AI, AI Agent, AI Architecture knowledge
• UI development (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, Angular4/5 and Bootstrap)
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Subversion) and build tools like Maven
• Big Data, Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4J)
• Design patterns
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Software development best practices such as TDD (e.g. JUnit), automated testing (e.g. Gauge, Cucumber, FitNesse), continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, GoCD)
• Linux command line and shell scripting languages
• Relational databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL)
• Cloud computing, SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket)
• Experience working in financial services
• Assembly, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Expeditor,CA7, File-Aid in a mainframe
• Experience in COBOL, DB2 in a mainframe environment
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+) or ScalaJa
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka and/or Hadoop or NoSQL such as Cassandra
• Experience working with open source frameworks; preferably Spring, though we would also consider Ruby, Apache Struts, Symfony, Django, etc.
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI
• Strong knowledge of appropriate programming and scripting languages – Be proficient in .Net, .Net framework 4.5, WCF or related technology, AJAX, and JSON, and some type of automated testing

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed
• Manage teams with cross functional skills that include software, quality, reliability engineers, project managers and scrum masters.
• Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software, quality and reliability engineers.
• Collaborate with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs.
• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
• Drive technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books.
• Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity
• Implement architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions
• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate
• Provides coaching, leadership and talent development; ensures teams functions as a high-performing team; able to identify performance gaps and opportunities for upskilling and transition when necessary.
• Drives culture of accountability through actions and stakeholder engagement and expectation management
• Develop the long-term technical vision and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams.
• Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems

Benefits

• comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages
• 401k matching
• paid time off
• organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees