Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics.

Principal responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end technical delivery from discovery and design through build, testing, release, and production support.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to convert requirements into practical and scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture decisions, solution design, implementation planning, and engineering standards.
• Oversee the design and development of services and applications using Python and Java in enterprise environments.
• Define and govern integration patterns, API strategy, security controls, observability, resilience, and performance requirements.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, risk controls, and software engineering best practices.
• Drive delivery planning, dependency management, environment strategy, release readiness, and support models.
• Review solution designs and code to ensure maintainability, extensibility, and operational stability.
• Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, code quality controls, and container/cloud deployment patterns where applicable.
• Identify and manage technical risks, trade-offs, and issues with clear documentation and stakeholder communication.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate across teams to align target architecture, delivery sequencing, and reuse of common capabilities.

Requirements:

• Strong experience in software engineering and technical delivery leadership in complex enterprise environments.
• Solid development experience in Python and Java.
• Proven track record in solution and application architecture, including distributed systems and service-oriented design.
• Experience delivering scalable, resilient, and secure applications in production.
• Strong background in API and microservice design, system integration, and event-driven or service-based architectures.
• Good understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, release management, and production support practices.
• Practical experience with non-functional requirements including performance, reliability, recoverability, monitoring, and security.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across delivery execution, governance, and strategic change.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with pragmatic decision-making in fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with engineering metrics, delivery governance frameworks, and operational excellence practices.

Success Measures (First 12 Months):

• Delivery of priority initiatives on schedule with agreed quality outcomes.
• Reduction in production incidents and improved service reliability metrics.
• Improved release predictability, test automation coverage, and deployment efficiency.
• Clear architecture decision records and stronger cross-team technical alignment