Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, software engineering, or data science.
10+ years of experience building technology solutions for financial services companies.
Proven track record in architecting solutions that enhance client results and firm margins.
Strong commercial acumen with a history of initiating funded client engagements.
Expertise in financial services technology stacks, cloud, data, and integration.
Responsibilities
Own and direct each client's technology strategy and roadmap.
Lead multi-regional teams to ensure effective delivery across concurrent programs.
Steer engagements towards AI Pods for efficient AI-assisted delivery.
Hire and develop teams to meet engineering and AI demands.
Translate business requirements into actionable technical specifications.
Design solution architectures that align with client needs and win proposals.
Identify unmet technology needs to foster new client engagements.
Benefits
Unlimited paid time off
Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
Disability and life insurance
Retirement benefits including 401(k) with potential company match
Generous parental leave policies
Child hospitalization leave
Unique 'Be kind to yourself day' on your anniversary
Paid jury duty and moving days
Approximately 12 paid company holidays annually
Full Job Description
Technical Director, Financial Services
The Role
Partner with each client's engagement and relationship owners to guide the client through their transformation journey.
Salary: What You'll Do
Technology Strategy. Own each client's technology strategy, from its direction and target architecture to its roadmap and technical risk.
Set the technology direction to align systems with business goals.
Design the target architecture to guide platform and data choices.
Build the technology roadmap to order system changes by value and dependency.
Manage technical risk to keep solutions within the client's controls and regulations.
Delivery Leadership. Lead each client's multi-regional, multidisciplinary teams across concurrent programs to ensure cost-effective, responsive delivery.
Steer new engagements to AI Pods, the firm's fast, governed and predictable AI-assisted delivery offering.
Hire and develop teams with the right engineers and AI agents to meet demand.
Translate business requirements into technical specifications to guide development.
Define the engineering and quality assurance standards to deliver reliable, resilient solutions within agreed service levels.
Business Development. Design best-fitting solution architectures that win proposals.
Identify each client's unmet technology needs to open new engagements.
Generate ideas for new technology initiatives that accelerate the client's business objectives.
Prototype new technology to prove feasibility and value to win the engagement.
What You Bring
Hold a degree or equivalent experience in computer science, software engineering or data science.
Apply knowledge of financial services technology stacks, cloud, data and integration to improve how platforms grow business.
Deliver a higher return on client technology spend by building enterprise-class solutions with AI-powered software development.
Apply DevSecOps practices to AI-assisted engineering to release secure code faster and more reliably.
Preferred
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) on top of a technology background.
Experience
Industry experience. 10+ years building technology solutions for financial services companies.
Solution architecture. Demonstrated record of architecting solutions that lift client results and firm margin.
Commercial acumen. Demonstrated record of initiating ideas that progress to funded client engagements.
Stakeholder management. Act as trusted advisor to each client's technology leaders to keep them aligned on choices, risks and trade-offs.
Executive communication. Build decision-ready presentations around the buyer's priorities and metrics to earn their approval.
Benefits for this position will likely include the following:
Unlimited paid time off
Healthcare benefits
Dental benefits
Vision benefits
Disability insurance
Life insurance benefits
Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and a potential company match.
Parental leave for both birthing (up to 14 weeks of paid leave) and non-birthing parents (up to 4 weeks paid leave), as well as adoption leave (up to 8 weeks of paid leave), subject to qualifications
Child hospitalization leave (up to 15 paid calendar days per year), subject to qualifications
"Be kind to yourself day" on your anniversary (subject to terms and conditions)
Graduation and birthing gifts, subject to eligibility
Paid Jury duty (up to 4 weeks a year), subject to eligibility
Paid moving days (up to 2 days a year), subject to eligibility
Approximately 12 paid company holidays a year
Accommodations:
If you require accommodation, please contact the recruiting team
Remote Work:
Remote work permissibility may change based on business needs. For questions regarding work locations, speak directly with your hiring partner.
About Globant S.A.
Globant S.A. is a digital transformation services company that provides software development, data analytics, and user experience design services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Globant S.A. operates in over 16 countries and has over 16,000 employees worldwide. The company's clients include Fortune 500 companies in industries such as finance, healthcare, and technology.
