Director of Technology
The Director of Technology will take responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of technical projects; operating with scale, speed and quality. Working with other key technology and business leaders, the selected individual will establish best engineering practices and influence them through solid design decisions, processes, and tools across the broader engineering organization. The Director of Technology will constantly evolve our strategy to produce better end user outcomes and relevant offerings in the market.
Job Responsibilities
Lead strategic technological planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and determining future direction of the group's technical strategy
Develop and contribute to the Research unit’s plans, staffing, budgeting and process decisions that support both long-term and short-term objectives of the group
Work with team leads to continuously upgrade platforms, prioritizing initiatives that have the biggest impact on technical debt for the products
Own non-functional requirements, technology standards, architectural direction, technical documentation, and quality of the code
Maintain the highest levels of security, promoting a culture and practice of security awareness
Assess and monitor the impact of new technologies on our markets and research offerings
Partner closely with product leaders on strategic planning process, aligning technology vision and strategy with product and business direction, customer service strategy, growth strategies, and talent strategies
Qualifications
Bachelors of Science in CIS or related major required
10+ years of experience working in global technology organizations with proven team building and leadership skills
Ability to interface and project confidence and clarity directly with senior leaders both internally at Morningstar and externally with institutional clients
Ability to convert strategic plans into actionable programs and projects
Ability to create and promote a culture of technology excellence and innovation
Experience with Python, AWS and various data storage, big data technology and streaming data processing
Experience with agile principles including test-driven development, continuous integration and test automation
Creative thinker with the ability to solve problems
Ability to evaluate external teams to augment work when appropriate
Ability to communicate the technical possibilities and limitations of systems to non-technical colleagues in meaningful and constructive ways
Pragmatist who is bold, willing to think big, and encourage teams to act decisively
A belief in embracing both open-source and commercial tools and frameworks as well as SaaS, and having proven experience in making tradeoffs between competing alternatives
An investor-centric mindset.