Director Engineering

Who you are

• You hold a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields or have equivalent practical experience
• Leadership experience 10y+. You are a senior engineering leader, across projects and teams, with a natural aptitude and passion for growing and developing high-performing teams
• You have at least 4y experience in FinTech
• Domain knowledge of Investment products is a strong advantage
• Strong business mindset
• Strong AWS knowledge, Java, SQL, Kafka/or other messaging solutions
• You are pragmatic and can handle the balance between both taking and delegating the lead in challenging situations
• You bring both strong strategic and excellent operational leadership skills
• You motivate and inspire by outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, including communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• You possess solid data engineering/analytics background and distinct hands-on mentality
• You are experienced with OKR and KPI-based target agreements
• You are familiar with architecturally-heavy systems, including designing, implementing, and evolving these system constraints
• You are fluent in English, knowledge of German or another European language would be a plus
• We value diversity and the unique experiences each individual brings. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply

What the job involves

• For further development and expansion of our successful business, Raisin is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced Director of Engineering to lead both strategically and operationally our Investment and Pension (IPP) teams (25+ engineers)
• This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the IPP engineering organization and system landscape, an efficient and compliant development process, technical and business ownership of the Raisin’s IPP platform, and vendor relationships
• At Raisin, we work in a domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product)
• The Director Engineering (DE) leads both strategically and operationally across multiple cross-functional teams
• Accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their Business-owners in time, scope, and budget
• Responsible for the performance of their teams
• Resolving impediments for their teams
• Nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability
• Ensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
• Leading both complex technical and important business projects
• Leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives
• Drives long-term value creation for their domain
• Is fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe
• Builds resilient domain expertise in their teams
• Has a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams
• Collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders
• Ensures Data Vendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing data-related vendors)
• Shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the Raisin's business needs
• Collaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing Raisin's Tech Strategy
• Actively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions
• Is always considering the strategic benefits and price of
• Keeping an existing technical solution
• Introducing a new alternative (e.g framework, tech stack, tooling, process)
• Fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teams
• Offering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well
• Encouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility
• Attracting, hiring, and retaining diverse top technical talent for Raisin from around the world
• Proactively mentoring and coaching individual team members
• Ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams
• Organizing workshops/hackathons
• Representing the company in external tech events advancing Raisin’s tech brand recognition
• Shaping and driving knowledge transfer best practices
• Nurturing and protecting our culture of trust
• Initiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)
• Recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teams
• Drives, improves, and applies existing Raisin standards and policies, Regulation and data privacy
• Contributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automation
• Develops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organization
• Develops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teams
• Is responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teams
• Actively monitors, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt

Benefits

• Visa & Relocation Support
• 1,700 EUR Training Budget
• Free Choice of Hardware
• Beginner German Classes
• Food & Drinks
• Flexible working hours, home office and 28 vacation days
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club Membership
• Company Pension Scheme
• Team Events