Federal Reserve Bank (FRB)
FedNow Senior Manager Automation Solution Architect (Finance)
The Federal Reserve is developing a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow service. This service will help enable financial institutions provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of a new mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that will be transformative to the payments landscape in the United States.
Position Contributions-
This position is responsible for directing the SDET engineers by developing technical capabilities and solutions, and strategies that focus on ensuring framework development, DevOps continuous testing standards, CT pipeline capabilities, CT cloud infra, dashboards, and improving efficiency and effectiveness through the use of leading-edge solutions.
What will be expected of you-
Solution and Design: Provide leadership to a SDET and test engineering staff responsible for ensuring the timely delivery of high quality automation software. Responsible for building a scalable, reusable, modular and efficient automation/performance frameworks supporting technology stack. Collaborate with engineering teams in agile to drive shift left culture and support automation solutions and resolve impediments. Conduct workshops on delivery of the new automation features and adaption.
Work in partnership with the development teams, participate in architecture and design reviews, identify issues and suggest improvements to deliver business functionality on time with required quality. Prioritize tasks for a team to ensure critical deliverables are completed on time.
Coordinate automation solution development efforts and collaborate with test engineers in agile to ensure the successful delivery of application builds and changes within established time frames. Create branching strategy and policies for automation for high quality deliverables and schedule automation reviews and retrospective sessions. Mentor test engineers to integrate continuous testing capabilities into CI/CD model and build scalable cloud CT infrastructure.
Strategic Agility : Provide insight and strategic direction for the SDET & quality engineering team ensuring the automation practices that support the delivery of high quality software are as effective and efficient as possible. Conduct short and long range planning including resource forecasting and project planning activities. Evaluate and implement process improvements, including automated tooling, to strategically implement more modern testing disciplines. This includes automating both functional, performance and security based scripts as testing gets moved to the left in the software development lifecycle. This requires strategic thinking and technical aptitude to work with software developers to integrate automation scripts into the overall build process.
Project and Stakeholder Management : Provide technical leadership to cross-functional projects by adding the quality engineering perspective to ensure broad understanding of the automation goals, objectives, and priorities of all stakeholders. Cultivate relationships with key stakeholders and contribute business expertise to ensure the success of projects - negotiate with constituents on project timelines and resource availability.
Talent Management : Assess performance and provide developmental opportunities for staff. Create an environment for open communication and inclusion; provide ongoing coaching to enhance automation and technology skills and encourage staff to develop leadership competencies.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Expertise you will bring-
Logistics & Requirements-
The Federal Reserve System is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.
All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.
For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.
The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.
All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years