Application and Product Development – Senior Director recruitment

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Fitch Solutions is the division responsible for providing services and data products to our clients and the public.  Fitch Solutions has a portfolio of websites and data feeds.  Our team is constantly developing new products to meet the needs of our clients.  We are seeking a Sr. Director who can manage this application portfolio.  The Sr. Director will manage a team of 11+ staff located in Chicago as well as an India-based offshore team of 15+ consultants.  The Sr. Director will help prioritize projects, manage the full-development lifecycle and help support the current suite of production systems.  The Sr. Director will report to Fitch’s CTO and will work closely with IT staff in NY, London and Bangalore.

Responsibilities:
• Build great web and data products
• Manage and build the capabilities of the our application development team
• Help prioritize and manage resources for multiple concurrent projects
• Ensure projects are well executed – delivered on time, on budget, and with high-quality results
• Provide thought leadership in the use of technologies, in software architecture, design and business functionality
• Facilitate communications across IT, internal business clients and Fitch’s senior management team
• Provide hands-on coaching/mentorship for requirement reviews, test plan reviews, GUI design, code walkthroughs, project plans, etc.
• This position requires limited travel (less than one trip per quarter)

Required Skills
• 10+ years experience in software application development (includes at least 5 years of project management)
• A track record of performance and steadily increasing levels of responsibility throughout career
• Detailed knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle, SDLC and experience with Agile development
• Strong technology expertise in our core web development technologies (JBoss, Java/J2EE, JQuery, Javascript, Spring/JSF MVC frameworks, and Oracle / PL/SQL,).
• Excellent communication skills and teamwork orientation
• Bachelor’s degree

Beneficial Skills
• Experience in the Financial Services industry and understanding of Fixed Income market
• Experience with product development
• Experience with management of offshore development teams
• Nice to have technical skills:  Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), MongoDB, SDL Tridion CMS, Endeca search, Adobe Cold Fusion, QlikView, XML, RIXML and/or XBRL Drupal and other open source applications

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