Global Head of Product Engineering
Employment Type : Full-Time
Why We Work at Dun & BradstreetWe are at a transformational moment in our company journey - and we’re so excited about it. Each day, we are finding new ways to strengthen our award-winning culture, and to accelerate creativity, innovation and growth. Our purpose is to help customers improve business performance with Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud and Live Business Identity, and we’re wildly passionate and committed to this purpose. So, if you’re looking to make an immediate impact at a company that welcomes bold and diverse thinking, come join us!
Overview:We are looking for a talented, driven, hands-on engineer and technical leader to join our team and support critical Firm-wide objectives of Honoring the Client, Protecting the Franchise and Creating New Insights. The Lead will design and deliver web platform standards, partnering with product development across the business to accelerate delivery of customer facing solutions. End-to-end UI expertise ranging from design systems to advanced SDLC are expected to improve visibility into cross-team technical issues. This is a new capability within Finance & Risk solutions, and the candidate will direct the evolution of the group.This is an opportunity to create innovative solutions in a highly visible role.If you’re ready for this opportunity, you’ve spent years designing and building high-availability, high-scale, production systems, you had plenty of front-line experience in the past, but now you’re more interested in how complex systems work together than in optimizing that routine, come join us.The successful candidate will face off with senior level internal stakeholders to manage expectations and prioritize delivery in concert with the CTO.Summary of Role:The Global Head of Product Engineering will join the tech team supporting the Finance & Risk Solutions business unit along with the CTO. They will be driving the technology strategy, architecture, and delivery of the division’s future product portfolio. This is an engineering focused role, with deep expertise needed for the selection, development and delivery of technology that underpins a best in class platform for web products. Continuous liaison between business product development and ownership over UX and front-end development is expected. The Lead will see the “big picture” and work closely with the business to create a platform to deliver an ecosystem of products across Finance & Risk Solutions.Critical Responsibilities:- Provide leadership, direction and mentorship for Web, Mobile and Desktop development as a cross cutting discipline across products; lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms and devices.
- Deliver a UI platform vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates, that actualize the larger vision over time.
- Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with leaders inside and outside their core product team to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive and well-informed.
- Set new standards in executional and operational excellence.
- Advocate for users in a fast-paced, corporate climate, imparting day-to-day design leadership that fosters a shared understanding of the user-centric intersection between design, content, business and engineering
- Demonstrate strategy to action identifying strategic and tactical opportunities which drive all aspects of value across networks, categories and brands (e.g. cost, cash, speed, agility, quality, industry & consumer insights and benchmarking)
- Recognize & adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, analysis, validation and documentation
- Work with stakeholders to identify, manage, and evolve relevant dashboards which provide real time performance / KPI optimization capability and create visibility of systemic performance gaps / root causes
- Align systems and reporting globally to ensure efficiency in reporting and a single version of truth
- Lead internal / external cost and technology benchmarking activity through best practice identification and deployment; ensure integration into standards & policies
- Provide leadership and guidance on pragmatic methods for measuring progress and the impact of change
- Create, plan and communicate roadmaps with management, stakeholders and the team
- Works to align business unit goals with company goals, building commitment among peers and subordinates
- Is accountable for making prompt decisions that will have an impact on department/business unit operations
- Ensures team members understand how they/their groups contribute to the company and their latitude for action
- Handles internal crises objectively and considers the facts before reaching conclusions
- Identifies technological and business opportunities that provide sustainable growth, profitability, and dominant market share
- Develops partnerships and understanding of comprehensive business issues to drive creative solutions that address organizational and customer problems
Qualifications:- Bachelor’s degree in CS or MIS required; Master’s preferred
- 10+ years of technical leadership with robust engineering teams
- Experience building and operating sophisticated end-to-end UI/UX
- Deep knowledge of emerging web standards; Web Components, WebAssembly, PWAs, ES10
- Experience developing re-usable, framework agnostic, UI components
- Experience in FinTech and SaaS ecosystems for web product delivery
- Deep knowledge of the google V8 engine and chromium renderer
- Experience implementing design systems, and optimizing designer-developer workflow
- OpenSource contribution a (FinTech, personal projects) a plus
- Experience developing sustainable APIs for visual workflows
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Ability to debug large scale codebases using the available tools.
- Collaborative and able to influence across the organization.
- Full stack knowledge of systems fundamentals
- Proven track record of successful collaboration and influencing skills across cross functional organizations
- Experience successfully managing teams and applying Agile methodologies
- Hands on experience with data science project steps including: understanding the business ask, sourcing and extracting the correct data, cleaning and exploration, modelling, reporting, and automation.
- Demonstrable track-record of learning and deep-diving as needed into complex existing and new technologies
- Intense sense of ownership, initiative-taking, and a can-do attitude
Advanced programming skills and comfort with multiple languages - Great attention to detail and a data-driven approach to problem solving
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a plan that ensures that the right people are in the right roles at the right time, and that employees are highly engaged and satisfied
- Strong vendor management and partner relation skills to identify and leverage resources internal and external to the enterprise to enhance capabilities that support business objectives
- Externally recognized authority within the industry
Additional Attributes:- Delighted to learn about business challenges and developing strategic and innovative solutions
- Has a passion for identifying and delivering innovative solutions
- Understands the importance of ensuring the balance between innovation and delivery
- Values openness and communication. Highly values providing clear documentation for designs and solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences
Dun & Bradstreet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, genetic information, protected military and veteran status, ancestry, marital status, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by law.
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