Software Engineering Director

Crump Life Insurance Svcs Inc; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k plan

Vacation & Sick days

Job summary

Truist is seeking an experienced technology leader to guide multiple teams in delivering high-quality software solutions. You will ensure adherence to risk controls while driving Agile and Waterfall projects across the enterprise.

You’ll mentor staff, manage complex projects, and collaborate with regulators and auditors as part of a strong risk-management culture. Hybrid work from Atlanta is possible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related technical field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or IT consulting.
• 5+ years applying IT best practices and requirement-to-deployment lifecycle.
• Experience with Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps, Agile & Waterfall SDLC, Microservices, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills; ability to guide large projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams delivering technology solutions aligning with business needs and risk requirements.
• Resolve complex technical, operational, risk, and organizational challenges across multiple LOBs.
• Drive automation and modern tech to improve efficiency and speed-to-market.
• Oversee planning, design, build, testing, and deployment using Agile or Waterfall approaches.
• Mentor teammates and ensure high quality software with proper testing and production handoffs.

Skills

Leadership

Agile champion

Mentoring

Problem solving

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Rally

Jira

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

SQL/Oracle/NoSQL

Job description

Regular or Temporary: Regular Language Fluency: English (Required) Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America) Please review the following job description:

Responsibilities

• Lead a team or teams responsible for technology solutions that meet business needs and satisfy risk and operational requirements of the Tech organization.
• Identify and resolve complex technical, operational, risk management, and organizational challenges for an LOB or several Sub LOBs.
• Leverage emerging technologies and automation to improve business efficiencies, enhance speed-to-market of solution delivery, and support business and enterprise transformation and optimization.
• Direct the engineering and deployment of significant delivery projects in accordance with specified technical requirements, schedules and budgets, including Agile methodologies.
• Oversee the planning, design, engineering, testing and deployment of application projects in conjunction with a variety of resources, which may include Waterfall or Agile approaches.
• Develop departmental plans, including business, financial, production and/or organizational priorities based on IT and focuses on long-term operations planning and performance, and broader business objectives and priorities.
• Apply an in-depth understanding of systems engineering and administration and a basic understanding of other IT disciplines in guiding and coaching team members.
• Adapt plans to meet service and/or operational challenges.
• Identifies and resolves technical, operational, risk management, and organizational challenges.
• Maintain appropriate Risk Profile through owning the first line of Risk defense, proactively identifying risks, and implementing the necessary mitigations where warranted.
• Partner effectively with 2nd line of defense, Auditor, and regulators to ensure Risk is identified and mitigated appropriately.
• Lead role or technical consultant role in large or complex projects or initiatives.
• Full management responsibilities for teammates: hiring, disciplinary, coaching, terminating, performance reviews.
• Act as an Agile champion.
• Responsible for delivering high quality working software and automating manual/reusable tasks.
• Leverage engineering practices to deliver business value.
• Responsible for oversight of software engineering and unit testing, and supporting integration and functional testing.
• Oversee warranty support and knowledge transfer to production support.
• Ensure developed code is in accordance with the acceptance criteria established by the Product Owner.

Position may be eligible to work hybrid/remotely but is based out of and reports to Truist offices in Atlanta, GA. Must be available to travel to Atlanta, GA regularly for meetings and reviews with manager and project teams within 24-hours’ notice.

Requirements

• Must have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or related technical field.
• Must have 8 years of progressive experience in software engineering or IT consulting positions.
• Must have at least 5 years of experience performing the following: Applying in-depth knowledge in information systems and understanding of key business processes and competitive strategies related to the IT function to identify, apply, and implement IT best practices.
• Applying broad functional knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and deployment of applications.
• Planning and managing projects and solving complex problems by applying best practice Providing direction and mentor less experienced teammates.
• Utilizing experience with: Rally, Jira; Azure DevOps; Agile & Waterfall SDLC; Microservices Architecture; Modular Monolithic Architecture; Messaging: MQ & Kafka; Relational Databases, including IBM-IMS, IBM-DB2, Oracle, SQL & MySQL; NoSQL Database, including Redis & Dynamo; Kubernetes; AWS Cloud Services, including API Gateway, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch; SOAP UI; SAML; Java; Microsoft Office; and Splunk.

Benefits

• All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.
• Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.
• Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.
• This job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

EEO is the Law E-Verify IER Right to Work About Truist Truist is a purpose-driven financial services company, formed by the historic merger of equals of BB&T and SunTrust.

We serve clients in a number of high-growth markets in the country, offering a wide range of financial services. At Truist, our purpose is to inspire and build better lives and communities. That happens through real care to make things better. To meet client needs, to empower teammates, and to lift up communities. Learn more about Truist on truist.com.