Software Engineering Director

Equifax • Alpharetta, GA

2d

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 a creative, high-energy, diverse and driven software engineering director with tehcnical leadership skills to work on a variety of meaningful projects. This position provides you the opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers working with cutting-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic engineering leader who is passionate about technology. What you will do 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. What experience you need Bachelor's degree or 7-12 years of software engineering experience. Led design and development of solutions using event-driven and RESTFul API architecture Worked with SREs and dev teams to define and maintain SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX quality engineering standards Collaborated with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices. Collaborated with Product with a product mindset Drove technical documentation including support, end user documentation and runbooks. Led Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity Managed multiple development squads at a supervisory capacity assuming all HR responsibilities, including hiring & interviews, retention, training, and team capacity planning Implemented architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, EOSL decisions, and continuous improvements whilst ensuring EHB guidelines Created and delivered 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 Experience of building and managing strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale Deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure Strong experience of full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS is preferred Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred What could set you apart 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) Developing with modern Java and JavaScript frameworks We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, 401k matching, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks. Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or 7-12 years of software engineering experience.
• Led design and development of solutions using event-driven and RESTFul API architecture
• Worked with SREs and dev teams to define and maintain SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX quality engineering standards
• Collaborated with the architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices.
• Collaborated with Product with a product mindset
• Drove technical documentation including support, end user documentation and runbooks.
• Led Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospectives, and other team activity
• Managed multiple development squads at a supervisory capacity assuming all HR responsibilities, including hiring & interviews, retention, training, and team capacity planning
• Implemented architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, EOSL decisions, and continuous improvements whilst ensuring EHB guidelines
• Created and delivered 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
• Experience of building and managing strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale
• Deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure
• Strong experience of full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS is preferred
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

Nice To Haves

• 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)
• Developing with modern Java and JavaScript frameworks

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
• 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