Director, Software Engineering - Finance
Company Description
Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 133,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
Like to lead a team developing modern solutions to business needs and driving automation across the organization? Like to interact with global internal customers to optimize their processes and projects? Familiar with agile, waterfall and other project management methods. Experience with managing and leading development teams with skilled developers and program managers? Interested in being part of a worldwide operating software development team? Then the Architecture & Engineering team at Zayo wants you!
The successful candidate will:
Define and drive strategic direction of tech road map with designated tech teams collaborating with other technical leads where appropriate
Communicate clearly and passionately about technology solutions with business stakeholders and product/technology partners
Manages, coaches, and inspires a team of senior resources and cross-functional resources
Mentor developers in their engineering practices and managers in leadership practices
Lead multiple engineering teams to design, build, deploy and support internal project management web application with a global focus
Have a strong understanding of software/system development with proven experience managing DevOps-driven software teams
Grow and manage development engineers that are responsible for developing and maintaining internal software
Be responsible for mentoring and developing engineers
Develop and improve the processes needed to successfully balance requirements from multiple requestors and product owners
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent
2+ years of experience as a systems/software engineer working on challenging software projects
4+ years of experience building and leading successful software/systems development teams in agile environments
Knowledge of min. one object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Python or C#) as well as practical experience with Service Oriented Architectures
Experience with SalesForce and NodeJS Microservices run in Docker on Heroku/AWS
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Experienced in agile and waterfall project management
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
People management, career management and mentoring experience of handling multiple groups of 5+ skilled resources
Project management experience with agile development methodology
Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
Understanding of DevOps philosophy and its practical execution
In-depth experience with Oracle or related technologies
Autonomous problem solver with an optimistic disposition
Excellent written and verbal communication
Patience and politeness
Advanced degree in Computer science, Mathematics, or equivalent
Base Salary Range- $118,400- $157,900
Benefits, Rewards & Wellness
Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) - Full-time Zayo employees are also eligible for discretionary AIP which is based on the performance of the Company, an employee’s business segment, and the individual employee
Sales Incentive Plan - Full-time Zayo sales employees are also eligible for discretionary incentive cash compensation through our Sales Incentive Plan
Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
Fitness membership discounts
Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave
Please note, in accordance with Zayo's commitment to providing and maintaining a workplace free of recognized hazards, all U.S. and Canadian employees and any employee, vendor, customer, or visitor who enters a Zayo office or facility in the U.S. and Canada must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof of such vaccination. If you are hired by Zayo, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination or have a valid religious or medical reason not to be vaccinated.