Senior Director, Cloud Software Engineering

SVB Financial
Santaclara, CA
28 Nov 2024

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When you work with the world's most innovative companies, you know you're making a difference.

Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They're the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and 30+ years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.

Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients' world-changing ideas to life. At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

Job Description Senior Director, Cloud Software Engineering

Silicon Valley Bank serves some of the most innovative companies in the world. Our clients are forward thinkers. True believers. Optimists. Inspired by them, we're changing the face of banking. Our clients have redefined products in many areas of the global economy, and every day we power their ability to do so. And we need leaders with the same can-do attitude as our clients. We're looking for creative thinkers who want to challenge the status quo and create a truly seamless digital banking experience on a global scale.

The Senior Director of Cloud Software Engineering will lead and manage the technology teams building world class cloud native software capabilities and migrate on-Prem applications to public cloud. You will serve as a leader in the Commercial and Private Bank Technology team and work closely with the technology leadership team to drive overall cloud adoption for the division. You will collaborate closely with teamsacross the organization to provide strategic direction and guidance to support rapidly evolving public cloud application landscape.

Job Description

As a senior leader to guiding Commercial and Private Bank Cloud Migration Team, you will be at the forefront of SVB's Cloud Transformation journey and for building resilient business applications in public cloud. As a Senior Cloud migration leader, you will lead team of cloud engineers to migrate Commercial and Private Bank applications to AWS, and in the process, enriching our client experience with highly available, resilient and performant applications.

Would you like to use your cloud technologies knowledge, and do you have passion for building instrumentation needed for identifying issues before clients find issues in production? Are you familiar with best practices for developing cloud native applications? Do you want to play a key role in improving client experience through "always available" application architecture? If you fit the above description, you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud technologies, and believe in best-in-class application experience which is critical to SVB's and its customer success.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead a team of 15+ talented cloud software engineers
  • Analyze existing on-prem applications' architecture, develop cloud compatible solutions, and migrate applications to AWS.
  • Leverage various cloud application migration strategies such as Re-platforming, Re-hosting and Re-architecting applications based on the enterprise technology strategy
  • Ability to develop new applications and deploy in AWS cloud in multi-region, multi-AZ distributed systems
  • Envision, Design and Build end-to-end Observability for Applications running on AWS Platform
  • Collaborate with product engineering teams to develop and deploy applications using Gitlab, Terraform, AWS services and methodologies
  • Ensure security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions
  • Develop and migrate mission critical services to public cloud and build automated testing, deployment and release processes
  • Have full oversight into changes going into production, asset tagging, cost and capacity analysis, vulnerability, and patch management
  • Partner closely with peer engineering leaders to ensure, we operate as a single team
  • Proven leadership with ability to lead multiple teams in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment
  • A willingness to mentor people inside/outside of the Information Technology department on best practices, system design principles, and industry trends
  • Demonstrated ability to bring the benefits of technology to solve business issues while also managing costs and risk
  • Able to influence decisions at various levels of corporate management
  • Excellent written, oral communication skills and strong negotiating skills

Technical Skills:
  • Experience leading teams to build solutions on AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, VPC, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Dynamo DB, RDS, Redshift, Glue etc.
  • Ability to lead a team of engineers to leverage Terraform and contribute new Terraform templates for reuse across organization
  • Experience in leading teams in developing solutions in Java, node, react or DotNet languages
  • Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, SonarQube in the cloud environment
  • A leader capable of managing high performance teams, flexibility in a dynamic working environment
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline recommended
  • 10+ years of application engineering experience
  • AWS Certification in Developer or Solution Architect is preferred
  • 2-5 years of demonstrated experience in designing and developing complex distributed IT solutions (e.g., cloud, distributed systems or high-performance computing experience)

For more than 35 years, SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ: SIVB) and its subsidiaries have helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB Financial Group's businesses, including Silicon Valley Bank, offer commercial and private banking, asset management, private wealth management, brokerage and investment services and funds management services to companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB Financial Group operates in centers of innovation around the world. Learn more at svb.com.

SVB Financial Group is an equal opportunity employer.

At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

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Silicon Valley Bank is registered in England and Wales at Alphabeta, 14-18 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1BR, UK under No. FC029579. Silicon Valley Bank is authorised and regulated by the California Department of Business Oversight and the United States Federal Reserve Bank; authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority with number 577295; and subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority and limited regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority. Details about the extent of our regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority are available from us on request.