Optomi, in partnership with a leading company within the finance industry, is seeking an experienced Director, Scheduling Platform Engineering to join their growing team in Jersey City, New Jersey!

What the right Candidate will enjoy:

• Hybrid work schedule!
• Work with a creative team and be a part of a great culture!
• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology!
• Working at a innovative company!

Experience of the right candidate:

• 10 years of Information Technology management experience in a technology leadership and functional lead roles.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field and/or related experience.
• Strong people leadership to drive critical, team and organizational transformation.
• Good interpersonal skills and experience working with clients, senior management and working with regulators / supervisors.
• Ability to work across teams to create partnerships that achieve organization goals, and passionate about building an innovative way of working.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, ability to communicate technology concepts to IT as well as Business Management
• Prior Banking and Financial services proven experience, preferably banking, or Wealth/Investment Management
• Proven track record in strategic planning, business development, and client management, with experience in leading teams.
• Strong abilities on Data Analysis and strong financial foresight– ability to systematically apply a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning to examine information, interpret results and arrive at well-founded logical conclusions.
• Detail oriented, excellent at follow-through on actions, able to prioritize and focus on most urgent tasks.
• Familiarity with SDLC management & Agile
• Experience initiating and managing Continuous Improvement Projects, driving to successful delivery of improvements.
• Deep understanding of Mainframe delivery and distributed hosting, network, storage, messaging, identity management, encryption
• Must have experience with all aspects of Resilient data center management: multi-Region configuration, Disaster Recovery testing, and managing replication.

Responsibilities of the right candidate:

• Lead the modernization of the Scheduling platforms across mainframe and distributed environments.
• Lead the Service Level Management function and work closely with clients and internal customers to improve clarity on real-time processing completion predictability.
• Bring awareness of industry leading tools/technologies to develop long term strategies.
• Establish positive relationships with key vendors to ensure the best outcomes.
• Collaborate with all Technology teams ensuring they leverage the latest scheduling capabilities.
• Host regular meetings with Application Development and infrastructure service owners in each area to review status and address issues.
• Ensure that best practices developed for a single product line are shared with other product lines.
• Align with core ITIL Process including Change, Problem and Incident Management.
• Develop the core components for alignment with support teams for technology lifecycle management.
• Extensive involvement in audit and regulatory reviews as the leader of a critical governance function
• Ensure that tasks executed by the team have fully detailed procedures suitable for review by both internal and external auditors.
• Participate in multiple forums as a key technical collaborator on topics related to Disaster Recovery, Resilience, Application Hosting and foundational services (such as networking, storage, replication, identity management, messaging, etc).
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.