Director of Software Engineering Resume

Candidate Pitch:

Proactive and dynamic professional with 15+ years of experience in driving company goals and objectives through application development and architecture, system integration, and cloud adoption. Adept at developing high-performing teams capable of delivering the technological requirements to accommodate business and market demands for diverse clients. Highly capable of utilizing Agile methodologies, API architecture, and industry best practices to deliver projects with high quality on time under budget. Articulate communicator with expertise in collaborating with cross-functional teams and individuals. PAYCOR HCM INC. REMOTE Director of Software Engineering Mar 2022–Present • Grow and manage teams of 40+ software engineers to successfully deliver mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and reseller projects on time and under budget. • Focus on enhancing the functionalities of core software, which involves developing API-based frameworks with no-code or low-code capabilities for third-party integrations. • Mentor and coach team members to improve technical skills and leadership abilities. • Work closely with the Sales and Marketing Team to negotiate major sales/deals to fund the Engineering Team and maximize its resources. • Promote a culture of innovation within the company, enabling the discovery of new opportunities for business growth. Key Highlight: • Implemented a new engineering delivery process and Agile methodologies to reduce project delivery time by 20% and increase team productivity by 25% over a 6-month period. • Successfully led the design and launch of various products within set quality and timelines, which supported prompt execution of multiple business initiatives including mergers and acquisitions, resellers, and presales, and thus, generated over $80M in sales annually. CITIBANK IRVING, TX, USA Director of Software Development Jan 2016–Mar 2022 • Oversaw the design and development of global consumer banking (GCB) products, along with administration of software development best practices for digital/financial technology programs throughout North America, which propelled the business’ global transformation and achieved company objectives. • Conducted application refactoring and migration to cloud platforms with microservices architecture. • Formed and directed the initial Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team responsible for managing digital applications. Key Highlight:  Drove significant improvements in the application release engineering process by leading digital transformation initiatives, closely supervising over 300 developers, and introducing best practices for CI/CD adoption.  Successfully accomplished the first public cloud risk assessment and mitigation program, which consisted of cloud observability, architecture, as well as IaaS/PaaS/SaaS. US and Mexico Digital Sector Solution Architect Feb 2014–Jan 2016 • Supported the application development process and the global production, which entailed managing compliance with all applicable regulatory and quality standards. • Performed gap and backlog analyses, in partnership with diverse software development teams, which focused on identifying disparities between as-is and to-be features/capabilities of applications in the Digital Eagle program. Key Highlight: • Ensured seamless performance of the digital services in the portfolio as well as top-quality digital experience for consumers by providing infrastructure support throughout the software development. Director of Global ESB Development Jan 2011–Feb 2014 • Managed and drove the development of global ESB roadmap, strategy, and platform for GCB (Global Consumer Bank) in a service-oriented architecture. • Cultivated exceptional teams by actively inspiring, coaching, and setting goals for over 250 developers with a focus on their growth and development. • Facilitated collaborations with cross-functional teams and vendors such as TIBCO, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, enabling efficient creation of technical objectives based on business. Key Highlight:  Built an effective global ESB Product Development Team, which succeeded in delivering 25% of labor and infrastructure cost savings, thus completing he global program in less than $300M. Master’s Degree in Computer Science | Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics | Nanchang University, Nanchang, China Hands-on End-to-end Architecture Design SDLC and Agile Methodologies Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) DevOps, CI/CD, and SRE Enterprise Application Integration Project Administration Stakeholder Relationship Management Consultation and Technical Support Technical Presales Employee Training and Leadership PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Azure DevOps Boards for Project Managers/Analyst/Developers Project Management Professional (PMP) AWARDS Digital Transformation Award – Citibank TECHNICAL ACUMEN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, React, C/C++, Shell Script, SQL PLATFORMS: Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, AppDynamics, Splunk DATABASES: SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS: MQ, TIBCO, Mule, JMS DATA VISUALIZATION: Power BI, Snowflake, Report Builder SECURITY TOOLS: SSO, SAML, Okta