Vice President, Strategic Product Engineering

$155,000 - $225,000/Yr

The Clearing House - Winston-Salem, NC

Full-time - Senior

Winston-Salem, NC

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Vice President of Strategic Product Engineering at The Clearing House is responsible for leading the in-house development of applications that support real-time payments and tokenization services. This role involves managing development projects, ensuring adherence to company policies, and promoting teamwork across the organization. The successful candidate will also play a key role in the migration to cloud-based computing, overseeing the development and support of innovative payment solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage development, maintenance, and level 3 support of applications.
• Ensure adherence to all development and company policies.
• Promote teamwork and work effectively across the organization.
• Develop and improve team skills, create and implement training plans, and set development targets.
• Effectively identify and manage risks associated with projects.
• Monitor performance metrics and take corrective actions to improve quality and productivity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of IT experience in analysis, design, development, documentation, implementation, and testing of software systems in Java, Spring, J2EE on Red Hat Linux, UNIX, or AIX.
• Experience managing agile development projects.
• Thorough knowledge of secure development practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in wholesale or retail banking technology, especially money transfer (e.g., ISO20022, Faster Payments, SWIFT, Fedwire, RTGS).
• Experience with IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ, or DB2.
• Knowledgeable in Software Reliability Engineering, test automation, and CI/CD processes and tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar Cube, Fortify.
• Experience developing or migrating applications to Cloud Environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience developing applications in Erlang or other functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance