[Hiring] VP of Software Engineering @Donnelley Financial Solutions

Role Description

Join a dynamic team at the pulse of global markets, where we deliver innovative software and service solutions for essential financial reporting and capital markets transactions. At DFIN, we are a values-driven organization that empowers you to build a fulfilling career while bringing your authentic self to work every day. Our “Win as One” mentality ensures that our team’s success is directly linked to Client, Shareholder and Employee Satisfaction.

We are looking for technical team members at all levels who want to push themselves to deliver the best in market SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions. We offer a challenging environment where you will have to grow, adapt, and use your skills consistently. Our customers rely on us in the moments that matter. Engineering delivers on that promise.

The VP of Engineering is part of the Global Head of Engineering’s leadership team, delivers results and is focused on execution by:

• Shipping high quality software
• Advancing engineering disciplines and technologies
• Being a leader in all areas of software engineering, operations, and deployments
• Building a team for success that is focused on winning for the firm and the team
• Setting and achieving difficult goals through motivation and execution
• Being fully aligned to the Engineering and Product team

Responsibilities

• Take Responsibility. Lead teams through example and take an ownership stake in the product roadmap planning, execution, and delivery
• Deliver working, operational, high-quality software on a consistent basis
• Architecture. Create a focus inside the team to tightly align with our Architecture practice to eliminate silos and produce best of breed products
• Management. Maintain team management structures for managers, individuals, and career progression. Be a steward of our budgeting and finances
• Efficient. Pride yourself on using what you have to the best of your abilities. Be it current talent, budget, software stack – make the most out of everything before starting over
• Scale Yourself. Building software is not easy and problems will constantly arise. This role requires multiplying your impact through operational problems, bugs, requirements, and processes. Be willing to take this on yourself and create more versions of yourself to deliver
• Be flexible in your expectations, goal settings, technology choice by adapting to change
• Challenges team members
• Recruit, train and build teams for success

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills – ability to motivate people, instill accountability, perform under pressure, and optimize the team's resources to attain the business goals
• Excellent knowledge of modern technology trends and its applications for new products in the marketplace
• Knowledge and drive for evolving data architectures
• Excellent Knowledge of Software Engineering Discipline, including hands-on knowledge of programming languages, object-oriented programming, fault-tolerant distributed systems, data structures and algorithms, operating systems, distributed data and data modeling
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communications skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 8 years of experience leading software product development teams
• 15+ years of software development on revenue generating systems and applications with a record of success

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Flexible workplace
• Comprehensive benefits
• Opportunities for professional growth