Lead Engineering Strategy – Spearhead the vision and execution for a next-gen, cloud-native advisor platform that supports financial professionals.
Enterprise-Wide Impact – Align engineering efforts with business goals across multiple business units, ensuring technology investments directly support growth.
Technical Leadership – Oversee platform architecture, design standards, and development of frontend, backend, APIs, mobile, and integration layers.
Modern Engineering Practices – Implement and uphold best-in-class software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies with automation in testing, security, and CI/CD.
Agile Excellence – Champion Agile frameworks driving velocity, code quality, and production stability with measurable KPIs.
Reliability & Security Focus – Embed DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering practices to ensure high availability, performance, and secure development.
Global Team Leadership – Manage and scale a distributed engineering team fostering a strong, inclusive engineering culture.
Talent Development – Define org structure, mentor leaders, and partner with HR to recruit, onboard, and grow engineering talent.
Architectural Governance – Set technical direction across microservices, APIs, event-driven design, identity management, and data architecture.
Tech Debt Elimination – Actively modernize legacy systems and introduce scalable solutions to improve platform extensibility.
Security & Compliance Ownership – Ensure secure-by-design practices, partnering with Risk and Compliance to meet regulatory standards (e.g., SEC, FINRA).
Cross-Functional Collaboration – Work closely with product, infrastructure, architecture, data, and cybersecurity teams to deliver unified solutions.
Vendor and Budget Management – Manage third-party partnerships and a multi-million-dollar engineering budget with accurate forecasting and resource planning.
Technical And Leadership Qualifications
12+ years in enterprise software engineering roles, with 5+ years in senior leadership engineering roles.
Demonstrated success building and operating cloud-native platforms at scale (Azure preferred).
Experience running a modern Agile/DevSecOps engineering organization with distributed teams.
Prior responsibility for managing offshore engineering partnerships and global delivery models.
Experience managing platform quality with automated unit, regression, performance, security, and integration testing.
Deep Hands-on Understanding Of
API development and management
Microservices architecture
Event streaming (Kafka or similar)
Mobile frameworks and web platforms (React/Angular)
Relational and non-relational data stores
Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Addison Group complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.
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