Director Engineering - Investment & Pension domain (m/f/d)

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p class="sc-gEkIjz cjtSrT MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 sc-hoLEA">Raisin is the world’s leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, the&nbsp;<strong>FinTech</strong> connects consumers with banks in the EU, the UK and the US. This gives consumers <strong>better interest rates</strong> and banks a <strong>diversified form of refinancing</strong>. Our vision is to offer savings and investments without barriers and thus open up the global 160 trillion euro market.</p> <p class="sc-gEkIjz cjtSrT MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 sc-hoLEA">Raisin currently employs more than 800 people from over 75 countries worldwide. Today, the platform holds over 80 billion euros in assets from&nbsp;<strong>more than one million investors</strong> which have accrued over 5 billion euros in returns.</p></div><p>For further development and expansion of our successful business, Raisin is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced <strong>Director of Engineering</strong> to lead both strategically and operationally our Investment and Pension (IPP) teams (25+ engineers)</p> <p>This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the IPP engineering organization and system landscape,&nbsp; an efficient and compliant development process, technical and business ownership of the Raisin’s IPP platform, and vendor relationships.</p> <p>At Raisin, we work in a domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product).</p> <p>The Director Engineering (DE) leads both strategically and operationally across multiple cross-functional teams.&nbsp;</p> <p>This embraces the six impact areas (in details below):</p> <ul> <li>Delivery quality and speed</li> <li>Domain ownership</li> <li>Team and culture</li> <li>Data strategy</li> <li>Process and compliance</li> </ul> <p><br><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Your Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <h3><strong>Delivery quality and speed</strong></h3> <p><strong>The DE is:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their business-owners in time, scope, and budget</li> <li>responsible for the performance of their teams</li> <li>resolving impediments for their teams</li> <li>nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability</li> <li>ensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams</li> <li>leading both complex technical and important business projects&nbsp;</li> <li>leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Domain ownership</strong></h3> <p><strong>The DE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>drives long-term value creation for their domain</li> <li>is fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe</li> <li>builds resilient domain expertise in their teams</li> <li>has a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams</li> <li>collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders</li> <li>vendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing vendors)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Tech Strategy</strong></p> <p><strong>The DE:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the Raisin's business needs</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">collaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing Raisin's Tech Strategy</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">actively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">is always considering the strategic benefits and price of:</li> </ul> <ul> <li> <ul> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">keeping an existing technical solution</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">introducing a new alternative (e.g framework, tech stack, tooling, process)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Team and Culture</strong></h3> <p><strong>The DE is:</strong></p> <ul> <li>fully responsible for the health, resilience high performance, and development of their teams&nbsp;</li> <li>offering direct leadership of engineering leads and sometimes also tech leads as well</li> <li>encouraging accountability, creativity, risk-taking, and ownership by delegating responsibility</li> <li>attracting, hiring, and retaining top technical talent for Raisin from around the world</li> <li>proactively mentoring and coaching individual team members</li> <li>ensuring a strong delivery-oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams</li> <li>organizing workshops/hackathons&nbsp;</li> <li>representing the company in external tech events advancing Raisin’s tech brand recognition</li> <li>shaping and driving knowledge transfer best practices</li> <li>nurturing and protecting our culture of trust</li> <li>initiating, owning and nurturing tech initiatives (like guilds, workshops, regular meetups)</li> <li>recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments within their teams</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Process and Compliance</strong></h3> <p><strong>The DE:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">drives, improves, and applies existing Raisin standards and policies, regulation and data privacy</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">contributes to an optimal toolchain with a high level of automation</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">develops, establishes, and continually improves documentation standards for the engineering organization</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">develops guidelines and best practices to ensure a lean software development process across different product teams</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">is responsible for the KPI-based reporting for their teams&nbsp;</li> <li style="line-height: 1.4;">actively monitors, analyses, and drives initiatives to continuously reduce their teams' technical debt</li