Lead Technical Delivery Manager

Dimensional Fund Advisors • Austin, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Overview: Dimensional Fund Advisors is a global investment firm guided by deep convictions about the power of capital markets. We are a leader in applying advanced financial science to equity and fixed income investment strategies. By employing a rigorous and systematic investment approach, we seek to capture what the market offers in all its dimensions. For more than 35 years, we have translated research into real-world investment solutions for clients. Headquarters are in Austin, Texas, with 13 offices around the world. Job Description and Purpose: The lead technical delivery manager is the delivery lead for Investments Technology. They will coordinate the delivery across multiple agile development teams. This technical program manager will ensure that all initiatives are delivered with the right levels of technology scale, requirements and fall within agreed program timelines. They will work across Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Fund Operations and various technology teams aligned with Investments Technology ensuring delivery with firm wide initiatives, technology maturity initiatives and strategic technology focused efforts. As a technical program / delivery manager you will support technology Product Managers and various engineering teams aligned to the Investments organization. You will coordinate the delivery of multiple initiatives, along with agile development teams. In addition, this role will work across various business lines, and stakeholder types across our organization.

Requirements

• 15+ total years of experience in product engineering delivery orgs
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in a Technical Program, Technical Product, Delivery Manager or Solution Architecture role
• Has previously led programs across 20+ software engineers working on digital and data platforms
• Must have prior experience leading teams delivering interactive, data intensive websites
• Expert in Agile/SCRUM development methodologies with 10+ years of experience in agile software development
• 3+ years of experience in an organization leveraging SAFe methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Capable of communicating complex concepts to various audiences to help them understand the benefits of technologies and recommended courses of action.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Scrummaster (CSM) or PMP-ACI
• Release Train Engineer experience in SAFe
• Agile coaching experience or certified is also preferred
• MBA or advanced degree
• PMP or similar Program or Project Management certificate
• Experience with MS Office Suite (high proficiency with MS Excel and PowerPoint), MS Project, Confluence, Jira, SharePoint

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of all Investments technology roadmaps, ensuring proper Agile frameworks and processes are implemented to support the organization.
• This role will drive new feature development through every stage of the agile software development lifecycle.
• Coordination of program level build schedules, data and feature validation, environment downtime, defect resolution of ownership and milestones to meet timelines.
• Define objectives with measurable results through data driven insights to ensure our customers, partners and internal teams are successful.
• Lead trade-offs between cost, schedule, and customer benefit; and provide technical direction and guidance.
• Serves as a go-to expert with context across the various investment systems and platforms: how systems work, interlocks, dependencies and general infrastructure awareness. They will step in and solve with teams when there are technical challenges to ensure delivery is met.
• Coaches the entire program team in empowerment / self-organization and acts as a servant leader for the individual dev teams.
• Defines agile best practices and creates delivery frameworks to measure overall team success.
• Proactively manages stakeholder groups to establish interdependencies, identify risks and resource constraints, and eliminate roadblocks in a timely fashion.
• Is accountable for resolving all roadblocks that would otherwise delay timelines.
• Create reporting metrics and analysis based on business goals and forecasts to understand progress, gaps, risks and mitigation plans for objectives and key results.
• This role will also maintain and publish all operational reporting for Investments software engineering teams and business health.
• Will coach teams in the SCRUM process, how to run ceremonies (planning, retros, backlog refinement). They will guide teams in how to create burndowns and manage team velocity.
• This resource will train members in the team to step into the Scrum master role and serve as an agile coach to the org.

Benefits

• Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level