FRFS Software Engineering Manager

Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
What we Do:
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.
We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.
Job Description:
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be accountable for the technical, functional, performance, quality, and operational aspects of your team's responsibilities. You are responsible for delivering projects and features that align with the strategic vision by managing a team of software engineers. You will ensure that features and projects are well-defined, the team's execution approach is effective, and the team provides ongoing optimization and maintenance of their project features post-release. You will need to have strong cloud skills, experience building and deploying applications to the cloud, and knowledge of Salesforce and application migration.
This role is posted internally as "Software Engineering Manager".
Your Responsibilities:
Leadership, Management and Coaching

• Guides, mentors, motivates, and develops direct reports to support their professional growth and development
• Provides goals, conducts performance reviews, and offers career management assistance
• Offers feedback to direct reports and outside of the team
• Provides thought leadership in software development principles
• Assists in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new talent

Envisioning, Definition and Planning

• Ensures clarity of requirements with acceptance criteria, facilitates customer collaboration, reaffirms requirements, and manages customer feedback loops to meet customer needs
• Provides high-level software development estimates, participates in portfolio planning, and refines detailed estimates as work progresses
• Develops feature delivery plans, identifies dependencies, and communicates plans to the team and stakeholders

Delivery

• Ensures the delivery of software, maintains quality, and oversees deployment into all environments, including post-production stabilization
• Ensures adherence to development, project, and architecture standards and timelines
• Provides input to the architectural vision of the department
• Ensures product quality through monitoring, test automation, defect tracking, and root cause analysis
• Maintains visibility of system performance and stability through monitoring and analysis
• Demonstrates expertise in building and deploying applications to the cloud, as well as experience with cloud platforms like AWS

Technical Collaboration

• Collaborates with Solution Architects to define subsystems, understand deployment, and communicate requirements
• Partners with Solution Architects and Tech Leads to balance design and delivery constraints
• Coordinates with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Tech Ops to ensure operational needs are met and technical debt is managed

Your Background:

• Bachelor's or master's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of software development experience with Java, familiarity with open-source software, web development, and relational databases
• 5+ years of experience with AWS, IaaS, and Terraform
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD tools, Salesforce, MuleSoft, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• 2+ years of technical management experience
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership in both technical and management areas
• Critical and analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Proven success in a team-based environment, including influencing direct and non-direct reports
• Expertise in cloud computing, including building and deploying applications to the cloud
• Knowledge of Salesforce and experience with application migration to Salesforce

What we offer:

• The expected starting salary range for this position is between $184,000 and $217,700 annually in addition to annual performance-based discretionary bonuses. Final salary and offer will be determined based on the applicant's relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with geographic and other market data.
• The Chicago Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.chicagofed.org/careers/thebenefits
• A continuous learning environment with opportunities to gain new skills and grow your career.

Additional Requirements:

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take approximately two months to be completed. The screening covers areas such as education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reaches out to your references and people that know you well.
• As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting, who can provide you contact information for our ethics official if necessary.
• This document indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. An employee's responsibilities, tasks, and duties might differ from those outlined in the job description, and other duties, as assigned, are a part of the job. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reserves the right to modify the elements of this job description, as business needs require.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.
Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Job Category
Information Technology Family Group
Work Shift
First (United States of America)
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