Technical Lead - Software Development

General information

Career area

Technology

Country

United States

Work Location(s)

500 Woodward Avenue, MI

State

Michigan

City

Detroit

Remote?

No

Ref #

16253

Posted Date

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Working time

Full time

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliche people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

Seeking experienced Technical Lead to join Ally IT's Agile Dash team. Primary responsibilities will be focused on supporting the Ally's Dash platform and sub applications. Through consultation and collaboration with the Solution Architect, this role provides architecture, design, development leadership and guidance to the product team. Following Ally's Agile practices, guide the team through emergent design while staying within the boundaries of the defined architecture. Solid design, integration, and architectural patterns experience strongly preferred - especially as they pertain to complex, enterprise-scale, transactional systems. Coach team members using powerful questions rather than authority, drive quality through continual improvement, foster collaboration in a team-centric environment, rely on experience and judgement to accomplish goals, exhibit strong communication and interpersonal skills, work well under pressure and aggressive timelines, and think beyond the day-to-day activities to ensure big-picture objectives are achieved. Willingness to roll-up-their-sleeves and get-the-work-done, participate in code reviews, and mentor team members a must.

This role requires hybrid work; for this team, the expectation is three days in-office and two days working remotely on a weekly basis.

To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

The Work Itself

• Experienced Agilist who embraces and expands Ally's Agile practices through thought-leadership and integrating industry best practices
• Deep understanding and application of Agile approaches and techniques, such as Scrum, Kanban, User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, etc.
• Assist in the definition of correct system architecture, guiding activities of software developers, and ensuring team takes ownership of overall solution quality and lead technical team members
• Capable of facilitating deployments in all environments utilizing proper change management processes and procedures
• Demonstrate practices to write clean, quality, and testable applications that supports rapid delivery via Continuous Integration, Delivery, and automated deployments
• Ensuring overall solution quality through solid, automated-testing strategies, which include test-driven-design
• Creating and reviewing technical documentation and specifications, as necessary
• Identifying and unblocking technical risks
• Contributing to the successful completion of deliverables on time and within budget
• Performing root cause analysis and helping troubleshoot technical issues
• Advising team members on Ally standards, security requirements, methodologies, and processes
• Interacting and communicating with technical and non-technical audiences

The Skills You Bring

• Holds BS (preferably MS) in Computer Science or related field preferred
• 5+ years of software development experience with at least 5+ years in a technical leadership role
• Demonstrates developmental knowledge of coding, testing, supporting and debugging
• Shows deep knowledge and understanding of enterprise-scale platforms and architectures
• Possesses strong analytical, problem-solving skills and exhibits strong leadership skills
• Ability to quickly get up to speed and support on existing application
• Experience migrating a monolith application to a cloud native application
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps best-practices
• Able to interface with business partners as well as internal and external technical teams
• Can articulate business requirements and objectives and translate those into software development solutions
• Passionate about developing, configuring, connecting and integrating systems in a complex enterprise application environment.
• Grasps new technologies and can adapt to rapid shifts in priorities
• Self-motivated, self-starter with clear communication skills who thrives working in a team environment
• Experienced full stack development with as many of the following as possible: Java, Javascript, Spring, Spring Boot, REST API/Micro Services, CI/CD, Jenkins Pipeline/Scripting, Maven, SQL, Shell Scripting, Node.js, React, Angular, Identity and Access management concepts (Open ID Connect, SAML, OAuth), AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS), Apigee, Docker, Middleware Knowledge (WebSphere, Weblogic, Tomcat), Hibernate, Git/BitBucket, JUNIT, SonarQube, Contrast #li-hybrid
• Tools: Confluence, Jira, Slack

How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:

• Time Away: 11 paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, and 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly (paid time off is prorated based on start date)
• Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
• Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
• Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
• Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
• Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
• To view more detailed information about Ally's Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf

Who We Are:

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Base Pay Range: An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.

Emerging

110000

Experienced

145000

Expert

180000

Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.