Application Services Manager
dimensional · Austin ·
- Category
- Management
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Company size
- 501-1000
dimensional · Austin ·
About Dimensional:
Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.
The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer scalable, innovative, and research driven solutions to improve our client’s financial lives.
The Platform Engineers at Dimensional are focused on leading, designing and developing the platform and services that underpin all of Dimensional’s applications and business processes across a variety of technical domains. Application services are key components of the platform, as they provide foundation services that include workflow automation, event-driven integration, ETL, and security tooling in support of software development.
We are looking for a hands-on manager to join our team and own the platform’s strategy for application integration, orchestration, security, and cloud services. This strategy includes supporting the platform’s current capabilities in addition to evolving them for future use.
You may be a fit for this role if you:
Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful
Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies
Solve problems systematically and transparently
Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively
Take a software engineering approach and demonstrate automation and security mindsets
What you might work on:
Own the strategy for application services, including vision and roadmap, technology selection, and stakeholder engagement for application integration, messaging/queuing systems, workflow automation, application security, and cloud services
Build, manage, lead, and mentor a team of platform and site reliability engineers to deliver software solutions
Engage with application development teams to drive utilization of tools, processes, and services
Migrate on-premise systems to SaaS/cloud-based offerings, where appropriate
Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our developers, business users, and clients
Collaborate with technology engineering leadership to drive enterprise maturity, solve enterprise technology problems, and make collective decisions
Participate in employee hiring, recruiting efforts
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
10+ years of experience developing software solutions
5+ years of experience managing technical teams and performing technical product management
Working knowledge of application integration technologies, messaging/queuing systems, automation systems, and cloud services
Experience with agile/scrum methodologies and the tools that support them
Experience operationalizing complex service offerings
Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate complex concepts to various audiences helping them to understand the benefits of technologies and recommended course of actions
Preferred Competencies:
Experience with any of the following: Airflow, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
Working knowledge of security best practices for SDLC (e.g., the Secure Software Development Framework)
Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification or equivalent
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Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.
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