Director, Product Engineering

The Clearing House•Raleigh, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Clearing House (TCH) is the only private sector operator of core payments systems in the United States, clearing and settling nearly $2 trillion in U.S. dollar payments each day. TCH recently launched RTP®, a real-time payment system, and continues to develop innovative products for domestic and international payments. This Director of Product Engineering position is for the core distributed systems development group. It is a hands-on management role leading a team of developers responsible for building, maintaining, enhancing, and modernizing distributed (Windows and Linux) applications that support core payment networks. A key aspect of this role involves supporting the migration to Cloud-based computing.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in the field of Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or other related field
10+ years related experience, at least 5 years in a management capacity
Thorough knowledge of secure development practices
Experience in .NET and JAVA development for mission critical applications
Strong database experience
Experience in both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
Knowledgeable in Project Management methods, processes and deliverables
Experience tracking and reporting relevant development metrics (e.g., capacity, productivity, progress, quality)
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience in building a solid team than can work across multiple applications.
Experience in transformation: Moving .NET platforms to more current technologies.
Experience with DevSecOps practices and tooling, including GitHub and Fortify.
Experience with modern data engineering practices, methodologies, and toolsets
Participate in the development and maintenance of an Enterprise Application Architecture.

Nice To Haves

Experience in wholesale banking, particularly with payments (ACH, Wires) would be helpful.
Experience developing and/or migrating applications to the cloud (AWS or Azure)
Knowledgeable in test automation and CI/CD process and tool sets
Experience with large Data warehouses, reporting and Business Intelligence
Certifications are a plus; MCP, MCSD

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the IT infrastructure team, the Planning and Execution team, the third-party vendors, and other Business Groups in the development / delivery of business application
Develop and execute an appropriate delivery team model (e.g., resources, skills, process management) to meet current and projected needs/constraints
Ensure on-time, on-budget, and high-quality code delivery
Effective resource management and planning
Develop and implement strong Application development techniques and effective methodologies
Responsible for providing backend support for the development, testing and other production issues and new projects
Manage deployments for Coding, Patching, etc.
Enterprise Testing - Support the coordination of Component/Unit Testing (dev)
Advanced knowledge and understanding of information processing principles and practices
Basic knowledge of core enterprise IT infrastructure
Basic knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws as relevant to IT compliance
Application/Infrastructure Lifecycle