Sr. Director Product Support and Release-Corporate Systems and Data

Company: SVB Financial Group
Location: Tempe
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

When you work with the world’s most innovative companies, you know you’re making a difference.

Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They’re the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and 30+ years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.

Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients’ world-changing ideas to life.

Job Description - Sr. Director Product Support and Release-Corporate Systems and Data (7251)

Sr. Director Product Support and Release-Corporate Systems and Data - ( 7251 )

Job Description

Senior Director, Product Support & ReleaseEngineering – Corporate Systems & Data

About SVB:

Silicon Valley Bank is the most sought-after financial partner in theglobal innovation economy.We bringtogether entrepreneurs, investors, ventures capitalists, and private equityfirms to move their bold ideas forward, fast. Our clients define what comesnext.

In the past 35 years, we have accumulated more experience with start-ups and high-growth tech thanany other company in the world.In fact,majority of the most compelling Fintech disruptors bank with us.Our clients include: Beyond Meat, Shopify, HelloFresh,Cloudera, and Andreessen Horowitz, just to name a few.We help our clients grow, too. More than half of the innovationcompanies that completed an IPO in the last two years were our clients.

Our accomplishments serve as motivationto continue pushing ourselves and we are committed to delivering user-centered,high-impact solutions to our clients.Weare looking for creative thinkers who want to challenge the status quo andcreate a truly seamless digital banking experience on a global scale.

About theRole:

The Senior Director, Product Support& Release Engineering will be responsible for the application support of CorporateSystems & Data divisions along with release engineering and SRE functions. Theywill be charged with ensuring the automated, self-service, and end-to-end supportof the bank’s products. The Senior Director, Product Support and Release Engineeringmust focus on operational stability, performance, security, efficiency,audit/control management, and scalability of corporate and data platforms. Thisrole closely partners with application delivery teams and proactively supportsapplication delivery priorities and release & SRE requirements. This rolealso collaborates closely with the Cloud Engineering leadership for strategy,design, implementation and support for public cloud services.

We are on a journey to a 100%Agile, Cloud/API & DevSecOps driven technology organization. This position willplay a key role in accelerating our journey within Corporate Systems & Data.This technology organization supports Finance, Accounting, Risk, Compliance& Enterprise Data business units. This role will report to Divisional CIO, CorporateSystems & Data.

Once Here You Will :

Implement near-term and long-term strategicinitiatives for product support & release engineering needs

Understand stakeholder product support needs acrossmultiple lines of business and manage/lead availability, resiliency, securityneeds of the products.

Envision a strategy to maximize to stakeholder’scurrent and future ability to rapidly enhance existing products and adhere tomodern standards

Deploy metrics/KPI driven operational improvementprograms focused on improving availability & security

Develop industry leading operational practices forsupporting API/cloud native applications and data platforms in the cloud

Influence application development teams to shift lefton security and quality practices by championing DevSecOps

Collaborate with teams distributed across functionalareas and geographic locations to ensure robust support

Foster robust engineering practices and leadhigh-functioning SRE teams

Envision and deliver operational processes andtechnologies necessary to improve reliability

Implement best practice continuous improvement processesthat prioritize incident analysis and remediation, with a constant emphasis onautomation and prevention

Continuously upskill your own technical knowledge -evaluate new technologies and open source solutions

Attract and mentor ahighly performant team in an exciting, inclusive and collaborative environment

What You’ll Bring:

Passion for achieving excellence in releaseengineering, availability and resiliency of products, solving complex problems,and taking ownership

Experience managing multiple stakeholders and multipleteam leads

Industry experience in Financial Services or otherregulated industries

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or InformationSystems

10+ years of experience with software development

5+ years of experience in direct people management

Experience managing Finance, Accounting, Risk & Complianceapplications/systems

Experience managing data platforms on-prem, in thecloud (AWS), Informatica & Collibra SaaS applications

Experience with design, development and deployment inthe DevSecOps environment

Experience with infrastructure-as-code andconfiguration automation tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

Experience developing and supporting publiccloud-based platforms (AWS(Preferred), Azure, GCP)

Experience in networking and cybersecurity (TCP/UDP,firewalls, IDS, IP/DNS, VPN)

Able to actively influence customers and businesspartners to solve problems and ensures products and services are utilizedeffectively and efficiently

Able to provide strategic solutions tailored to meetbusiness objectives

Must be willing to work in a fast-paced environmentwith an on shore – offshore distributed Agile teams

Outstanding written and verbal skills

CRITICALLEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES

Building PeopleCapability

Engageswith employees to develop a clear perception of long-termcapabilities/potential, and to provide balanced feedback/guiding principles

Givespractical support and guiding principles for growing capabilities, not justtechnical skills

Systematicallydevelops employees through stretch assignments with specific competencydevelopment goals

Usesinformal and structured approaches to career development to focus on individualimprovement over time

Supportspromotion of own people when talent is needed elsewhere and providesindividuals with development opportunities

Collaboratingand Influencing

Negotiateswith a genuine give-and-take approach, where parties act as true peers anddecisions are shared

Spendstime identifying all stakeholders necessary and meets or connects with all ofthem, neglecting no one to shape a collective consensus

Identifiesopportunities to build relationships that will help others achieve theirobjectives and reaches out to those people or new people

Driving Results

Hasa passion for achieving excellence in delivery, solving complex problems, andtaking ownership

Actsto surpass goals, seizing opportunities to push the envelope

Setscontinually higher goals that are ambitious but realistic for self and team, gearedto organizational objectives

Focuseson new business opportunities that enable business development targets to beexceeded

Qualifications