Lead Software Engineer, Director

Purpose:

Acts as a team lead of a data and digital solutions engineering team and provides business support for the production systems for all business units. Leads in all phases of the system development life cycle. Plans, monitors, designs, develops, integrates, and implements custom and packaged solutions to achieve business goals. Architects solutions that are fit for purpose and mentors more junior staff to ensure overall quality. Manages internal client relationships to resolve complex support issues.

Major Accountabilities:

Engineer Responsibilities:

• Maintain and evolve Core Bank Data Model.
• Lead in project analysis, design, and implementation phases.
• Analyze project requirements and accordingly decide on technical and functional direction.
• Prepare user requirements, technical specifications, and design specifications.
• Lead in data and software development and suggest architecture approaches.
• Lead in the definition of coding standards and lead the Peer Code Review processes.
• Lead technical support of system acceptance testing and validation activities.
• Define the appropriate agile processes to be used for features and provide leadership as required.
• Drive the continuous improvement of engineering processes.
• Lead system maintenance and oversee periodic review processes.
• Review and decide upon improvements to existing system designs, system performance, reporting, and reliability.
• Respond to customer queries and concerns in a timely fashion. Track issues, determine trends, and drive new designs to eliminate future issues.
• Lead meetings with teammates and business partners to discuss new ideas, issues and projects
• Perform system failure analysis and drive corrective actions. Lead root cause analysis and determine long term solutions.

Lead Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of employees/consultants, providing guidance and support.
• Participate in capacity planning and resource management to ensure optimal team performance and project delivery.
• Delegate tasks and set deadlines.
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics.
• Discover training needs and provide coaching.
• Ensure that the team is consistently delivering working software to the highest standards.
• Verify that the team is adhering to our commitment of principles and practices.
• Understand and communicate process methodologies used in the bank.
• Provide technical guidance in planning and executing assigned projects.
• Communicate information to management including escalation of key issues and risks.

Education/Experience/Skills/Knowledge:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Accounting, or Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience, is required.

Experience:
Minimum 10 years of experience in leading team(s), designing, developing, implementing, and supporting business applications, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Experience with hands-on requirements gathering and analysis, data modeling, development and implementation of data architectures including RDBMS and Data Lake House is required.
• Experience with data integration involving databases and SaaS products utilizing APIs, file transfer, including ETL and ELT methods is required.
• Experience in compliance with financial services in a regulatory environment and interactions with internal and external auditors is required.
• Working knowledge of fixed income and derivative instruments, treasury, capital markets, and accounting knowledge is required.
• Understanding of operating systems, application security configurations, and best practices in Windows and UNIX environment is required.
• Ability to take the initiative to pursue assignments, responsibilities, and support requests to a logical and final solution and to employ System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards is required.

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience:
• Minimum 10 years of Data engineering and/or object-oriented programming while designing, proposing, documenting technology solutions.
• Relational Database Management Systems, such as Oracle, including PL/SQL and expert SQL.
• Amazon Web Services experience, including with RDS, Glue Databrew, S3, and Lake Formation
• Diagnosing and resolving complex issues with banking/capital markets systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Developing functional and technical specifications for financial and/or accounting system (vendor or in-house) enhancements.
• Scaled Agile / SAFe practices; Scrum master experience is a plus.
• Experience in modern CI/CD tools and practices
• Working experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular and Serverless Framework is desirable.
• Designing, developing, and implementing web services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a plus.
• Creating and executing test plans and test cases.

SALARY RANGE: $185K - $245K

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. We value and actively seek to recruit, develop, and retain individuals with varied backgrounds and experiences reflecting the full diversity of the communities that we serve. It is the policy of the Bank to comply with all applicable laws concerning the employment of persons with disabilities.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is committed to the principles of equal opportunity in employment (e.g., employees, applicants) and in contracting (e.g., suppliers, vendors) regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a parent, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to cultivating a workplace free of unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and are dedicated to fostering vibrant communities by serving as a reliable source of liquidity and resources for affordable housing and economic development.

Salary ranges reflect the base salary that the Bank reasonably expects to pay for a given role and is not inclusive of annual incentive award opportunities, retirement benefits or the value of other health and welfare or other ancillary benefits. We consider many factors when determining base salaries such as individual background and experience, the competitive environment, education, particular skill set(s), and industry and institutional knowledge.

The Bank is committed to offering all team members challenging and engaging work with market competitive pay, retirement, and benefit offerings. In support of this commitment, the Bank routinely engages in market competitive benchmarking surveys and analysis to ensure our team members continue to be paid fairly and competitively.