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Company Name: FIS Global
Job Description
Position Type :
Full time
Type Of Hire :
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
Education Desired :
Bachelor's Degree
Travel Percentage :
1 - 5%
Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.
About the team
We are the Digital Transformation team, part of FIS Capital Markets - Technology and Services group. We are responsible for working with our various global Lines of Businesses to identify and implement new ways of working leveraging acceleration, automation, and agile practices.
You will play a critical role in driving innovation and growth for the Capital Markets Services. In a leadership role, you will be responsible for transforming our DevOps and IT Architect team and driving the development and implementation of next generation digital platform. With a focus on digital software pipelines and deployments, you will collaborate closely with product leaders, and other stakeholders to align product milestones and accelerate overall deployment through platform automation.
In this role, the candidate will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the company's digital transformation journey, drive customer-centric innovation, and position the organization as a leader in the competitive Capital markets landscape. Specifically, the Director, DevOps will be responsible for the following:
- Partnering closely with the broader Solution Management and Product development organization to define and deliver a modern, scalable, DevOps platform as the backbone for next generation solutions that will drive the product offerings into faster and higher quality releases.
- Leading and mentoring a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence. This includes identifying and attracting high-quality talent, as well as upskilling the existing team.
- Keeping up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies in the DevOps space, bringing innovative ideas and best practices to drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams including CIO, Enterprise Cloud, TechDev and Services to identify and manage dependencies in the digital roadmap, prioritizing key foundational features and enhancements that align with the company's vision.
- Participating in discussions with internal and external stakeholders to gather feedback and ensure that digital platforms meet their requirements and expectations.
- Driving and exemplifying engineering best practices and standards, while managing technology debt. Ensure the company continues to drive process improvement and migration to modern architecture and infrastructure.
What you will be doing:
- Develop overall Digital DevOps strategy, analyze current CI/CD pipeline tools and capabilities against the strategy, and define roadmap of enhancements to fully automate the path to production for all products.
- Oversee all aspects of Digital DevOps, driving an engineering mindset into how infrastructure, security and operations are approached, across the SDLC.
- Own and maintain digital CI/CD pipelines across all platforms and products including web, mobile and API applications.
- Partner with wider technology organization to define and enable public cloud services with IaC, ensuring automated governance of public cloud usage.
- Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to ensure applications are designed for scalability and reliability, and implement pipelines to handle all non-functional requirements, including disaster recovery.
- Research and evaluate modern technologies and tools to improve DevOps processes.
- Recruit, develop and lead a team of DevOps experts to deliver all Digital goals and eliminate friction in the delivery of Digital products.
What you will need:
- 18+ years of Software Engineering experience, with multiple years of leadership experience building high-performing, best in class engineering teams in a high-growth software product environment.
- In-depth DevSecOps experience automating the path to production for high-volume Digital products and applications, ideally in “you build it, you run it” model.
- Deep technical knowledge of DevSecOps technologies, frameworks, pipelines, and tooling.
- Proven track record of hiring, managing, mentoring, and retaining top-performing quality engineering professionals, and inspiring and leading engineering teams.
- Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles and processes (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevOps) and continuous improvement through measurement.
- Deep understanding of security and compliance for managing data, ideally in a regulated industry.
- Experience across a wide range of technologies including:
- CI/CD Pipeline Orchestration using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, and Harness
- Configuration Management with tools such as Puppet and Ansible
- Public Cloud services and pipelines, including AWS
- Containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Akamai, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Kafka, ESB, IIS
- PowerShell, Bash, Java and .Net technologies
- Preferred degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar relevant field
- Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles and processes (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevOps) and continuous improvement through measurement.
- Deep understanding of security and compliance for managing data, ideally in a regulated industry.
- Excellent communicator, highly innovative, capable of motivating and energizing direct reports and peers, with a proven ability to create a highly collaborative working environment.
Personal Characteristics
- Demonstrates judgment and flexibility; thinks about issues and develops solutions that thoughtfully take the broader context into account - positively deals with a shifting demand for time, priorities, and the rapid change of environments.
- Takes an ownership approach to engineering and product outcomes.
- Action-oriented self-starter who can set strategy and drive execution with a “roll up the sleeves” approach.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and influencing skills to work effectively with all stakeholders (internal & external), making information-based decisions.
- Penchant for excellence, both personally and professionally, demonstrated by intellectual curiosity, record of accomplishment, and reputation; shows strong attention to detail and implementation of best practices with an inclination for continuous improvement.
- Ability to quickly establish strong credibility with employees, business partners and external resources.
- Embodies and delivers the firm's values and culture towards colleagues, clients, and communities:
- Win as one team
- Lead with integrity
- Be the change
What we offer you:
A career at FIS is more than just a job. It’s the change to shape the future of fintech. At FIS, we offer you:
- A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
- A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!
- A competitive salary and benefits
- A variety of career development tools, resources, and opportunities
With a 50-year history rooted in the financial services industry, FIS™ is the world's largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. We champion clients from banking to capital markets, retail to corporate and everything touched by financial services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, our 53,000 worldwide employees help serve more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe. FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the FIS Online Privacy Notice.
Privacy Statement
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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