CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of RichmondWhen you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.About the OpportunityThe Cloud Solutions and Services department has an immediate opening for a Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering (Chapter Lead) position, reporting to Cloud Engineering Assistant Vice President.As a Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering, you blend software and platform engineering knowledge with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing people. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers by collaborating with other leaders and Product Managers to establish standards for your chapter, influencing strategic decisions and building high quality software solutions. In this growth opportunity role, you will directly manage a team of chapter members who work within autonomous squads across product areas. You are intellectually curious and are committed to developing your own expertise and empowering others by bringing the latest thinking to your role.What You Will Do:
Ensuring chapter talent composition and workforce planning aligns with strategic business priorities
Supporting and empowering chapter members to enable delivery of increased value in their teams through continuous improvement and learning
Enabling an agile and frictionless organization by demonstrating agile behaviors
Proactively partnering with other Chapter and Product leaders to:
Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions
Measure performance through established objectives and KPI’s
Align chapter members across squads and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent
Drive adoption of DevOps best practices, empower teams to optimize and automate, enable continual improvement, toil reduction and develop capabilities to measure code quality, test coverage and defect management
Set and apply standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps
Remove impediments to delivering value
Actively sharing insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience successfully leading, coaching, mentoring and developing technical team(s) within a product centric organization
5+ years of experience building various components of scalable enterprise applications
Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
Experience creating strategy and organizational change management.
Experience with Agile methodology and tools
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with which to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships at all levels of the organization
Decision making experience using a data-focused approach in day-to-day leadership situations and strategic tradeoff analyses
Adaption of continuous delivery-based engineering practices
Familiarity with running software on Cloud Service Providers like Amazon Web Services or Azure
Financial services experience is preferred
PMP and/or SAFe Agile Certifications are a plus
Other Requirements and Considerations:
Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct (https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/aboutus/careers/pdf/codeofconduct.pdf?WT.sin=Search&WT.six=3) to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org .
Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).
Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.
The hiring range for the Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering is 140,400 to $193,050
For candidates outside Richmond, VA, listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.
Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by February 27, 2024.
Full Time / Part TimeFull timeRegular / TemporaryRegularJob Exempt (Yes / No)YesJob CategorySupervisory/ManagementWork ShiftFirst (United States of America)The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.Privacy Notice (https://www.kansascityfed.org/documents/7797/WorkdayPrivacyNotice.pdf)OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.Why Our People Choose Us:Our reputation precedes usThere will always be room for personal growthOur people are firstYou’ll find the right balanceYour responsibilities will be meaningfulWe hope that you will be our future colleague.
