AVP - Technical Lead (Fort Mill)

Dexian has been engaged to identify an inspired innovative AVP Technical Lead for our client's cloud transformation journey.

This is a direct hire, full-time, hybrid opportunity working onsite as needed in Austin, Texas, Fort Mill, South Carlina, or San Diego, California.

Please be advised that this is not a subcontracting hiring initiative and that work authorization sponsorships are not offered at this time.

This key lead must have a background in the development of high throughput mission critical business applications, leveraging AWS technologies with Angular, .Net, SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

The AVP Technical Lead will need to be well versed in financial, trading and advisory technologies. As a trusted technology leader, he / she will be working with cross-functional teams to ensure development, deliver quality and meet deadlines. This is a Techno- functional hands-on, technical lead role in the trading organization that will design, architect and develop cloud-native and on-prem services to support the overall cloud strategy and transformation.

The AVP Technical Lead will serve as a solution expert working independently, responsible for development and delivery of critical trading applications meeting business goals. He / she will join and lead a high velocity, multi-functional development team focused on large scale multi-year programs. The role will require flexible thinking as the team works to integrate existing business and technology concepts with innovative design to deliver a practical and scalable platform.

Scope of Responsibilities :

• Lead a technical team to design, develop, test and implement technical solutions based on business requirements and strategic direction utilizing AWS cloud native technologies (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS).
• Deep understanding and seasoned on cloud migration strategies with AWS and e2e SDLC.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and strategies to scale and modernize existing trading platforms.
• Work collaboratively with quality assurance engineering teams, DevOps and PMO to ensure all SDLC processes and Agile best practices are followed.
• Code and implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end-to-end applications and services in the cloud.
• Formulating workable solutions to complex challenges, logically deliberating on courses of action by examining and challenging assumptions, discerning hidden value, objectively evaluating evidence, and assessing conclusions.
• Measure success by say / do, velocity, defect remediation, and clear value to the trading platforms.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to the company's modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC and release management processes.
• Provide production support, maintain, troubleshoot, optimize and enhance trading platforms / applications.
• Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system / application availability ensuring zero Advisor experience disruption.

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