Director of Engineering- Risk Screening - Financial Services.

Our client who is the largest financial market infrastructure company are currently recruiting for A technical director on a perm basis.

Our client has a reputation for providing high-quality services to the financial markets. They have a Strong brand/ reputation, a diverse product and service offering, International reach and are technologically advanced.

This permanent role is to lead Risk Entity Screening, a flagship product that is aimed at protecting customers from crime, corruption and other business risks. This is a very exciting opportunity to join a business in an innovative and rapidly evolving industry.

You will partner with product/ proposition management, and architecture to ensure alignment with the technical and business strategy, and will provide thought leadership in the area of cloud, AI/ML and analytics in order to evolve our Risk portfolio through technical advancement and innovation.

The duties of this role are:

• Lead development of the Risk Products and services. Lead all propositions for Risk in order to meet ongoing business needs
• Ensure high levels of service, quality, security and performance are consistently met. Where necessary, target debt in these areas and prioritise appropriately alongside feature delivery
• Drive innovations to manage growing volumes that reduce cost and TTM
• Support business teams for client presentations and strategy updates
• Drive innovation and differentiation to better address current and future needs within the Risk domain
• Take responsibility for vendor management engagement and governance, including cost controls, service excellence and long term relationships
• Drive teams to deliver quality products on time, following Agile software development processes

Knowledge, Skills, Experience required:

• A highly innovative individual with technical skills, excellent communication skills and global management experience
• A leader by example who demonstrate consistent high standards and can empower your managers and teams to do the same
• Enjoy working with many stakeholders and is great at juggling priorities to make the maximum impact for our customers
• Enjoy participating in both business and technical conversations that will help move our Risk products forward
• Enjoy driving the creation of technical solutions that meet our customer needs and be at ease owning the delivery of making those solutions happen in collaboration with business unit technology teams and our own engineering teams

You have:

• Degree level qualification, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• Extensive/years of experience managing large scale global systems and teams
• Experience with Java, and Cloud technologies
• Strong communication and presentation skills including the ability to build relationships and effectively communicate across all management and organizational levels
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Accomplished at relationship building across business, technology, finance and other key stakeholder domains
• Demonstrated program management skills including planning and budgeting; working knowledge of project management methodology and software preferred but not required
• Experience of working with ML/AI technologies would be beneficial.

What can they offer you?

Up to 125K base Plus 30% bonus

1K wellness allowance that goes straight into your bank account.

They support colleagues' health and wellbeing with inclusive benefits. So that's support for physical, financial, mental and environmental health, paid time off to volunteer, consumer discounts & savings and so much more.

range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.