Envestnet/Yodlee - Director/Senior Director - Data Engineering

About Company :

Yodlee delivers innovative Personal Finance and Money Movement applications that make online banking more profitable for our customers. Over 100 leading financial institutions and portals including 7 of the top 10 US Banks, offer Yodlee-powered solutions to millions of consumers worldwide.

Yodlee is about Data Aggregation. We aggregate data from 15000+ Data sources that include Online Banking web sites of top Financial Institutes.

Yodlee is seeking a Director of Data Aggregation Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build an extremely diverse and talented Data Aggregation engineering team to deliver a game changing aggregation engine; that provides better data driven customer experience across all customer touch points.

Brief Description :

- The Director/Senior Director of Data Engineering will be primarily responsible for managing a team of managers and engineers building the Yodlee Personal Finance suite of products

Description : Director/Senior Director for Engineering is ultimately responsible for the quality, on time, and budget delivery of release objectives established in conjunction with product management.

- Facilitate communication upward and across project teams including project status, justifications for variances and technical information (design and implementation objectives).

- Manage the trade-offs between time, budget and quality and communicate when that is happening and why.

- Work on multiple critical projects parallel

- Lead the team in a dynamic environment and deliver project timelines while adapting to change.

- Lead the team by ensuring release objectives, dates, timelines, and plans are understood.

- Ensure all processes and procedures, both internal to the team and interaction with other teams, are followed and work to improve whenever appropriate and necessary.

- Coordinate to provide technical guidance/assistance to the team when necessary.

- Proactively identify issues that are likely and provide resolutions before they become actual issues.

- Serve as a focal point for other department on status as required. Interact and coordinate with other teams for dependencies and ensure that there are no issues

- Appropriately escalate any issues/concerns that require immediate attention from other affected parties

- Identify, define, and coordinate the training needs of the team.

- Plan and execute a structured approach to enhancing the skill level and productivity levels of the team.

- Be aggressive about driving schedules and results.

- Able to earn the respect of senior technical staff

Minimum Qualifications :

- Software Engineering expert with 15+ years of experience including 5+ years managing large (30+ people) international teams developing large transactional applications..

- Hands-on experience developing web-based consumer applications especially in the financial services industry

- Strong Foundation of relational and no sql databases

- Strong knowledge of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate

- Strong technical skills covering web based development tools (Java/J2EE), scalable application development techniques to build large transactional systems, and consumer facing application development tools (HTML/CSS/JavaScript).

- Has to be able to understand complex technical systems and have "good taste" in architecture.

- A sense for technical detail- know when to delegate and when to back off, but be able to make sure small things are just right

- Knowledge of Java/enterprise systems, modern UI/html development, mobile, big data, etc. is good.

- Good team building and management skills

- Proven experience delivering release objectives in a variety of methodologies including agile methodologies such as Scrum

- Recognized self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced environment and seeks the challenge of winning in a rapidly changing marketplace

- Results-oriented, self-motivated team player and a strong leadership presence

- Proven ability to meet and exceed quantitative goals and consistently meet deadlines

- Strong written and oral communication and persuasion skills

- Strong business, project management and operational skills

- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

- Outstanding quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail

- Ability to communicate to all levels of the organization from senior management to engineers both internally and externally

- Successfully manage outsource partners as required to meet needs of the business.

Education: BE / MS in Computer Science or equivalent