Manager - Data Engineer

Who We Are

Cross River is a highly profitable fast-growing financial technology company recognized for the third year in a row by CB Insights as one of the 250 best global fintechs. Our comprehensive suite of innovative products powers financial solutions with a strong focus on regulatory compliance for our partners and their millions of consumers around the world.

We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker’s list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 4 consecutive years. The reason for this success is simple — our nimble, adaptive, and collaborative culture. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation in financial services, and we invite collaborative and motivated high performers to join our rapidly expanding team.

About Our Team

Cross River’s team is made up of problem solvers hungry to build and perfect new products and systems. We work with team members in most US time zones. Although we are in separate places, we still make space to know one another and have fun! We collaborate, help and mentor each other, and check in on our progress and blocks frequently. We work together primarily with Slack, GitHub, JIRA, and Zoom.

What We’re Looking for

• Manager Data Systems is a critical role for Cross River and will report to Chief Data Officer. Manager Data Systems should be able to perform the project management and, business analyst activities as part of leading multiple support and project squads.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manager Data Systems, is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivery of defined deliverables which usually requires engagement from multiple teams such as a project or smaller program. Key responsibilities include communicating the work objectives, coordinating delivery, managing risks, ensuring compliance to standards, and providing end-to-end visibility into the health of the deliverables. This role ensures execution and delivery meets the client’s expectations in terms of the functionality, quality, timeline and cost. They facilitate sync points across multiple organizations to enable delivery.
• Coordinates and facilitates routines to support delivery by multiple squads including but not limited to kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, etc.
• Plans and coordinates delivery and dependencies with across multiple teams.
• Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the defined deliverables.
• Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline.
• Gathers/facilitates status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to delivery, risks/issues, and schedule.
• Ensures that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the sponsor/stakeholders.
• Ensures deliverables comply with Enterprise Change Management standards.
• Supports resource planning or delivery/execution.
• Ensure continuous improvement with respect to velocity, reduction in backlog, and reduction in technical debt.

Required Skills

• Enterprise Change Management
• Project Financial Management
• E2E Technology Project Management
• End to End Technology Project Management in a Scale Agile Environment
• Prior financial services experience.
• Scaled Agile and Squad Fundamentals
• Great Communication and partnering skills along with attention to detail on updating various system of records.
• Collaborating with executive team members to determine and prioritize business strategies for the data team.
• Providing various vertical leaders with recommendations and consultation to improve teamwork.
• Planning, coordinating, and keeping contents of a meeting focused.
• Determining key performance indicators and how to measure team performance.
• Providing tactical support to implement ideas.
• Working with leadership to deliver, monitor and communicate progress towards goals.
• Responding to inquiries on behalf of the Chief Data Officer
• Overseeing strategic business initiatives from ideation to implementation
• Identifying and helping solve core problems or opportunities within business processes.
• Providing Chief Executive and other senior leaders with insight and analysis on the company’s operations
• Providing support and oversight for special projects and initiatives
• Planning, coordinating and leading meetings and workshops.
• Be able to translate business requirement to technical requirement.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of experience with large-scale data or project management and oversight experience. Financial services experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality and data protection management practices
• Demonstrated consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies, including communication, culture change and performance measurement system design.
• Knowledge of risk data architecture and technology solutions
• Internally and externally recognized subject matter expert that influence the way things are done.
• Bachelors or master’s in computer science, MIS, or Management

Cross River is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cross River does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. 

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