Director of Technology - Engineering
FINRA · Rockville, Maryland, US
The Director - Engineering is generally autonomous in their oversight and active management for a Technology program and/or practice area and most often repo...
Job description
The Director - Engineering is generally autonomous in their oversight and active management for a Technology program and/or practice area and most often reports directly to a Senior Director or Vice President Essential Job Functions: Directly manage and influence technology teams to deliver high-quality results across key disciplines including strategy, software development, operations, and engineering, Technical Leadership: Engineering Delivery & Execution - Deep expertise in enterprise software architecture and server-side technologies with proven ability to set technical direction, make critical architectural decisions, and guide design and implementation of scalable, high-performance systems. Requires deep technical fluency in modern Java frameworks, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems, with experience across the full stack from API layer through data persistence to inform architectural decisions, conduct technical reviews, and establish engineering standards. - Strong expertise in providing technical leadership for comprehensive data storage strategies across relational databases, NoSQL systems, and/or graph databases. Requires dee...