Senior Manager of Software Engineering

Title: Senior Manager of Software Engineering

The Group: The AdviserLogic group builds solutions and capabilities that enable financial advisors to deliver compliant and comprehensive financial advice so that their retail clients and investors meet their goals. The solutions leverage Morningstar’s extensive data and research capabilities across all stages of financial advice making the advice process compliant, efficient and effective.

The Role: We are improving our financial planning solutions with the overall idea to build a set of solutions and capabilities that allow advisers to search for new clients and engage with their existing clients in a better way and provide relevant, low cost, data backed compliant financial advice to them. The impact we are striving for is a multifold increase in the adviser’s client base without compromising on the quality of financial advice.

As you will be working on building the product from scratch, and manage its dependency on our existing product lines, you should have:

• Natural temperament required for product development which includes a persistent focus on product implementation with a long-term view of iterative product delivery.
• Good communication skills - Written and verbal to understand the current application and working with the Product team to understand the future functional and scalability needs.
• Good people and initiative management skills
• Experience in defining engineering best practices and providing technical mentorship to other members of the engineering team.
• The ability to build good working relationships within the team by communicating clearly both verbally and in writing
• Experience and understanding of Agile Development methodologies especially Scrum.
• Fast learner, open to learning new technologies when needed.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end development of the team and the product
• Own technical specifications (including architecture) of the product
• Refactor subsystems/components of the product along with maintaining the current version
• Ensure smooth migration from the older subsystems to the newer ones
• Ensure scalability and testability of the product and its subsystems

Requirements:

• Technical abilities showcasing a breadth and depth of technical knowledge:
  • Good understanding of how modern web apps are architectured with JavaScript driving the application flow and APIs as the backend.
  • Good knowledge and experience of working on both front-end and back-end technologies.
  • Deep expertise in either of the following:
    • Creating APIs - In JavaScript on NodeJS, In C# on .NET core.
    • Creating JS Apps - Using pure JavaScript, React.js or Vue.js.
  • Expertise in working with relational and non-relational databases.
• People management capabilities with an ability to lead, align and mentor senior engineers (10+ years experience)

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in software development.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in, at least one modern programming language such as Java, C#, JavaScript, Python.
• Proficiency and experience in building cloud native solutions, preferably AWS

Preferred Skill Set

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations using cutting edge methodologies.
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project.
• Experience in Data Engineering, especially with modern distributed data stack

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• Experience managing a team of senior leaders (3+ years)

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.