VP Engineering

Company: Mainstreet Bank
Location: Sterling
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

AVENU --- is looking for a Senior Vice President of Engineering to lead our engineering teams. This is an unique opportunity for a technology leader to bring the AVENU --- Platform, a Bank as a Service (BaaS) to market. We are looking for someone to lead our Engineering, QA, and DevSecOps teams.

This position reports to the President of AVENU --- and directly assists on all strategic and tactical matters as they relate to department supervision, budgeting and control, and financial performance within the engineering teams. Primary responsibilities include:

Partner with Product and Executive leadership on the strategy and vision for the AVENU --- Platform and drive the tactical execution of the product lifecycle/engineering schedule (operations, release, development, QA and support).
Foster a generative culture that is performance oriented, lean, cooperative, adaptive, and innovative.
Build high performing Engineering teams, including attracting, developing, retaining, and utilizing talent.
Creates and manages teams, processes, solutions, and products aligned with product strategy goals of the company.
Masters and employs software engineering and development methodologies and software development excellence methods including, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and various other practices, methods, and tools as required.
Constructs and adapts appropriate processes for usage within specific projects balancing quality, risk, speed, budget, delivery dates, personnel development, architectural complexity, supportability, and scope.
Establishes world class testing rigor to enable high quality product and service deliverables, supportability, and customer experiences.
Facilitate cross-team initiatives (security, quality, user experience, product feedback, SLAs, etc.).
Establishes and maintains a technology roadmap in support of product roadmap across all product lines that addresses technical debt and platform innovation with a rolling 3-year architectural vision that is updated regularly.
Participates in critical decisions as a member of the executive management team and builds effective relationships with senior executives, key management personnel and the Board of Directors.
Reviews financial and performance data with management to achieve budgeted results and affect changes in product development and technology operations.
Establishes and implements the strategic direction of the company's engineering and development initiatives
Ensures that departmental decisions such as staffing, development, organization, hardware acquisitions, and facilities are in line with the organization's business plan and vision.
Establishes, communicates, and implements engineering and development policies, practices, standards, and security measures to ensure effective and consistent operations.
Be accountable for product quality, security, and performance.

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
Minimum five years of progressively responsible engineering management experience with day-to-day operations within software, technology or technology consulting and services organizations.
Successful lead role in developing SaaS applications, mobile applications, frameworks, or Partner APIs; experience developing and shipping software applications or services from inception to delivery.
Expertise in Agile development, test automation, continuous integration, and SaaS performance / scalability.
Clear and proven change management and leadership skills.
Experience in the enterprise infrastructure, security, or other enterprise business to business technology platforms.
Demonstrated experience working with geographically dispersed teams.
Strong interpersonal, presentation and negotiating skills to quickly establish rapport and credibility at all levels within an organization, including the C- and board-level.
Excellent communication, analytic and problem-solving skills; sound business acumen and executive presence.
Strong overall work ethic.
Creative Problem Solver, able to adapt to challenges through collaboration and use internal stakeholders as a part of developing solutions.
Experience with enterprise analytics software, data warehouses, plus monitoring and alerting strategies.
Strong engineering background with knowledge with the following technologies: cloud infrastructure, Java, SQL, Linux Kernel, Kafka, Kubernetes.
Location is flexible, but consistent presence/travel to AVENU --- and MainStreet headquarters (Sterling and Fairfax, VA) is required.


At MainStreet Bank we strive to bring talented, team-oriented individuals on staff to meet and exceed our customers' needs. MainStreet team members enjoy a friendly working environment, opportunity for personal and professional growth, generous benefits and access to resources for improving their well-being.

For more information visit our website at www.mstreetbank.com

MainStreet Bank is an equal opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color or any other protected class.PI177439859

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