Federal Reserve Financial Services Engineering Director

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®1, FedACH®, Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to operations, technology, product and industry engagement, enterprise services, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service. Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.
We seek 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.
We are a dynamic environment that requires days in the office. In office requirements, as amended from time to time, are an essential function of the position.
District Employment and Dual Citizenship:
As a Federal Reserve System National Business Line, it is standard practice to post FRFS positions in all twelve Districts to provide transparency and equitable opportunities for all FRS employees to apply. Internal Candidate(s) selected for this position will remain employed by their current employing District and serve as an employee of FRFS. The selected Candidate’s new job title and associated pay range will be determined by the employing District and will continue to be subject to the employing District’s people policies and practices (i.e., remote/hybrid work posture, etc.).

Key Responsibilities/Qualifications:

• Leads and manages team(s) of ~10-15 software engineers for end-to-end delivery of mission critical application solutions.

• Lead, coach, and mentor team members to achieve individual and team goals, providing regular feedback and performance management. 

• Identify and address training needs, develop succession plans, and foster a culture of continuous learning and growth. 

• Ensure that the team has the necessary resources and tools to perform their jobs effectively. 

• Address and resolve conflicts within the team, fostering a positive and inclusive work environment. 

• Collaborates with stakeholders across the organization on planning for production delivery and appropriate (level 3) production support.

• Responsible for providing technical guidance to software engineers, including hands on development of complex applications based on reference architecture.

• Ability to work on multiple tasks while coaching others simultaneously to produce high quality deliverables.

• Demonstrates deep experience developing and supporting complex, mission critical systems. 

• Demonstrates strong innovation, influencing, negotiating skills, and strategic agility.

• Demonstrates professional maturity, ownership of complex issues, and a strategic vision for the future. 

• Informs and communicates with senior leaders, decision-makers, and stakeholders, regarding pertinent application and/or infrastructure activities, including software development, data management, middleware, infrastructure, and security activities.

• Makes hiring decisions and recommendations. Provides performance feedback to staff and takes disciplinary action consistent with the Bank's policies and principles. Makes recommendations to leadership regarding employee salary and career role changes.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of directly related experience and/or education required.

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.

• Minimum 10 years of professional information technology experience to include managing and/or supporting software development in a cross-platform environment.

• Experience managing and/or supporting major software development projects requiring coordination across a national organization with technical staff specializing in highly complex technology solutions. 

Additional experience (a plus): 

• Leading/Participating in cross-organizational, system workgroups.

• Developing team goals and objectives that effectively advance the goals and objectives of the organization and communicating a compelling vision that motivates the team to meet or exceed the organizations goals and objectives.

• Defining and implementing policies and procedures that ensure the goals of the organization are achieved effectively, efficiently and with the highest degree of quality.

Knowledge Area/Technical Competencies in areas below is a big plus:

• Experience working with Java/Java EE application development.

• Experience working with Spring framework technologies.

• Experience developing Microservices and REST API’s.

• Experience with Automated Testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Experience developing Angular front-end applications.

• Experience with Oracle and PL/SQL development.

• Experience with IDE’s (Eclipse, Visual Studio), GIT, Maven, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab)

• Experience with secure coding practices and tools for SAST and DAST.

• Experience with JMS (preferred IBM MQ).

• Experience with Application Servers (preferred IBM WebSphere)

• Experience with AWS cloud native services and deployments.

• Experience with API gateways.

• Excellent organizational, project management and problem-solving skills.   

• Excellent initiative, innovative thinking skills, and the ability to analyze details and adopt a big picture view

• Experience with financial services and payments applications involving large volume of data and processing (Preferred)

Our total rewards program offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:

• Comprehensive healthcare options (Medical, Dental, and Vision)

• 401K match, and a fully funded pension plan

• Paid vacation and holidays, flexible work environment

• Generously subsidized public transportation

• Annual tuition reimbursement

• Professional development programs, training, and conferences

• And more…

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, rush jobs, change in workload or technological developments).

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer.

Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInformation Technology Family Group

Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)

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