Director, IT Engineering

Summary

Join Pathward, a hybrid, remote-office financial empowerment company, as an IT Engineering Manager! Guide, coach, and mentor your team, fostering their growth and development within an Agile environment. Evaluate performance, provide constructive feedback, and drive improvement initiatives. Lead by example, championing Agile principles and ensuring high-quality product delivery. Attract, develop, and retain top talent, making personnel changes as needed. Support your team in problem-solving, while maintaining appropriate boundaries for self-directed work. Participate in portfolio-level events and ensure adherence to standards and best practices. This role offers a competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience
• Typically 8+ years with bachelor's or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Establish mission and purpose for individuals
• Perform career counseling and personal development on a regular basis
• Evaluate performance, including team feedback and provide input, guidance, and corrective actions
• Maintain a balanced mindset across the disciplines involved in the delivery of the products
• Work with members on improvement initiatives/experiments and understand the data, team, and workflow
• Set expectations for accountability, autonomy, and empowerment of team members and manage the appropriate boundaries to achieve the result of having self-directed team. Ensure every team member owns the quality of the products produced
• Provide leadership for principles behind the Agile Manifesto in all interactions
• Attract, develop, and retain capable individuals. Make personnel changes where necessary
• Understand, teach, and/or sponsor the IT Engineering skills needed to support the development of high-quality code, components, systems, and solutions. Support team members with problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making
• Remain close enough to the team to add value and to be a competent manager, while staying far enough away to let them problem-solve on their own. Support the self-organization that leads to team formation; Address issues team members cannot unblock
• Participate in Portfolio-level events including Portfolio Reviews, Overall Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Overall Retrospective
• Ensure teams are following standards and best practices
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) retirement benefits
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Paid time off
• Annual performance-based incentive opportunity