Engineering Capability Leader – Digital Services

Frost Bank•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

The Engineering Capability Leader – Digital Services is a subject matter expert who brings together technical areas to help create new systems and lead design and change across IT. This role applies servant leadership and collaborates with development teams to create and deliver high-quality systems throughout the organization. The position manages the full development lifecycle for a team of software engineers and assigned programs and systems, including architecture for interrelated applications across the Bank’s Digital Services channel, such as web, mobile, APIs, and supporting platforms. The leader reviews development work for alignment with business needs, change controls, enterprise architecture, security, and development standards; collaborates with business and technical partners on requirements, estimates, feasibility, and design; and advances AI-enabled engineering practices. The role also leads and develops engineers and technical leads, and ensures digital solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, performant, observable, and accessible.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Typically, a minimum of 6 years of experience developing technical solutions.
Demonstrated experience with Java Microservices, Angular, and/or mobile (iOS/Android) technologies.
Demonstrated experience with Cloud, API, DevOps, and methodologies.
Experience independently identifying issues and designing solutions for the bank’s biggest and most complex programs and systems.
Experience synthesizing and directing software development efforts for a group of Software Engineers.
Ability to lead a team, including coaching, developing, and retaining engineering talent.
Hands-on experience using Generative AI tools and capabilities to accelerate software engineering and technology delivery.
Ability to coach and enable engineering teams in adopting AI-assisted development practices.
Current knowledge of emerging market trends, development methodologies, and development frameworks that improve application security.
Strong understanding of commonly used programming concepts, practices, and procedures.

Nice To Haves

Experience with TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, and Java.
Experience supporting customer-facing digital banking, financial-services, payments, or similarly regulated platforms.

Responsibilities

Manage the entire development lifecycle for a team of software engineers and assigned programs and systems, including establishing architecture for interrelated applications across the Digital Services channel.
Review software development work to ensure alignment with business needs, change control procedures, enterprise architecture, security, and Frost development standards.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Software Engineers, Experience Design, Information Security, Risk, and lines of business to estimate effort, timing, and feasibility; design systems; and optimize functionality.
Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across the software development lifecycle to improve delivery efficiency, productivity, and quality.
Mentor and guide engineering teams in leveraging AI tools and techniques while adhering to engineering standards and governance.
Lead, coach, and develop Software Engineers and technical leads, establishing accountability for delivery, engineering quality, and operational excellence.
Ensure digital solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, performant, observable, and accessible, with appropriate production monitoring and support practices.
Proactively identify and address architecture, functional, non-functional, security, resiliency, performance, and technical-debt issues.
Provide strategic thought leadership while ensuring tactical execution and implementation of initiatives.
Take action using Integrity, Caring, and Excellence to achieve all-win outcomes.