WEX Inc.
Senior Director, Risk Engineering
WEX Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Company OverviewWEX is an innovative global commerce platform and payments technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, to simplify the business of doing business for customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love and care about. We are journeying to build a consistent world-class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer-focused innovations across all our strategic initiatives, including big data, AI, and Risk.
Position SummaryWe are looking for a highly motivated, technically deep, and experienced Engineering leader to join and manage a group of high-performing engineers in the Risk area. This is a really exciting time to be in risk technology at WEX. We are hiring for a cross-functional initiative with the goal of creating a modern, cloud-based technology ecosystem to allow WEX to be more nimble, faster to market, and open to emerging business opportunities, while keeping regulations, policy, and risk mitigation top of mind.
This Sr Director will report to the SVP of Data, AI, and Risk Technology, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. This role can also be in Chicago, Portland, Maine (Wex HQ), or Boston. An ideal candidate will have a rich experience in the Risk area and Risk Platform development, an established background in developing complex software platforms, a deep engineering skills and technical ability, outstanding people leadership with track record of growing/building strong and productive global teams, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
Lead and drive the development of technology and platform for the company's Risk needs, ensuring functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of the Risk Platform.
Own the technology and architecture of the Risk platform and services.
Challenge the status quo and hold a high bar to drive for better technical solutions to effectively serve all the needs in the broad risk area of Wex.
Closely partner with the leaders in the Risk Product org and the Risk & Compliance org to deeply understand the business needs and jointly come up with technical solutions.
Grow and build a strong global risk engineering team, providing effective guidance and coaching on engineering principles and best practices.
Partner with other leaders in the Data, AI, and Risk org to leverage the Data and AI Platform for the needs of Risk.
Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management and partners.
Drive the technical vision and strategy of Risk to serve the business needs.
Set clear, measurable quality goals for your group in a data-driven way.
Partner with the security org and SRE org to ensure continuous improvement and meeting of security requirements.
Qualifications & Experience
10+ years of software design and development experience at a large scale, with 5+ years of people management experience.
Deep technical skills in architecture design, development, deployment, and production operation.
Extensive experience in the risk area, including architecting and developing Risk platforms.
Good understanding and experience in Data and ML/AI.
Broad understanding of cloud architecture tools and services, such as S3, EMR, Kubernetes.
Excellent leadership, organizational, and partnership skills.
Experience leading global teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field; a higher degree is a plus.
Leadership & Personal Characteristics
Demonstrates a collaborative, engaging, mission-driven style with good listening skills.
Champions a culture of high standards and embraces change.
Leads with empathy and promotes a culture of trust and innovation.
Communicates effectively in small and large group formats.
Possesses a high level of intellectual curiosity and learning agility.
Pay Range: $201,000.00 - $267,000.00
The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.
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Position SummaryWe are looking for a highly motivated, technically deep, and experienced Engineering leader to join and manage a group of high-performing engineers in the Risk area. This is a really exciting time to be in risk technology at WEX. We are hiring for a cross-functional initiative with the goal of creating a modern, cloud-based technology ecosystem to allow WEX to be more nimble, faster to market, and open to emerging business opportunities, while keeping regulations, policy, and risk mitigation top of mind.
This Sr Director will report to the SVP of Data, AI, and Risk Technology, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. This role can also be in Chicago, Portland, Maine (Wex HQ), or Boston. An ideal candidate will have a rich experience in the Risk area and Risk Platform development, an established background in developing complex software platforms, a deep engineering skills and technical ability, outstanding people leadership with track record of growing/building strong and productive global teams, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
Lead and drive the development of technology and platform for the company's Risk needs, ensuring functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of the Risk Platform.
Own the technology and architecture of the Risk platform and services.
Challenge the status quo and hold a high bar to drive for better technical solutions to effectively serve all the needs in the broad risk area of Wex.
Closely partner with the leaders in the Risk Product org and the Risk & Compliance org to deeply understand the business needs and jointly come up with technical solutions.
Grow and build a strong global risk engineering team, providing effective guidance and coaching on engineering principles and best practices.
Partner with other leaders in the Data, AI, and Risk org to leverage the Data and AI Platform for the needs of Risk.
Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management and partners.
Drive the technical vision and strategy of Risk to serve the business needs.
Set clear, measurable quality goals for your group in a data-driven way.
Partner with the security org and SRE org to ensure continuous improvement and meeting of security requirements.
Qualifications & Experience
10+ years of software design and development experience at a large scale, with 5+ years of people management experience.
Deep technical skills in architecture design, development, deployment, and production operation.
Extensive experience in the risk area, including architecting and developing Risk platforms.
Good understanding and experience in Data and ML/AI.
Broad understanding of cloud architecture tools and services, such as S3, EMR, Kubernetes.
Excellent leadership, organizational, and partnership skills.
Experience leading global teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field; a higher degree is a plus.
Leadership & Personal Characteristics
Demonstrates a collaborative, engaging, mission-driven style with good listening skills.
Champions a culture of high standards and embraces change.
Leads with empathy and promotes a culture of trust and innovation.
Communicates effectively in small and large group formats.
Possesses a high level of intellectual curiosity and learning agility.
Pay Range: $201,000.00 - $267,000.00
The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.
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