Technology Business Manager

at  Dimensional Fund Advisors

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Job Description:
About Dimensional:
Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.
The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer the platforms that power the innovative, research-driven financial and technical products to improve our client’s financial lives.
Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Technology Business Manager is a highly visible role with responsibility for driving effectiveness within the technology department by providing leverage across the senior management team in talent and recruitment, employee engagement, financial and vendor management, tracking cross functional efforts to ensure strong execution, implement processes that demonstrate good management and thought partnership.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful
• Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies
• Solve problems through strong interpersonal relationship
• Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively
• Strong operator through influence management and thinking at scale
• Demonstrates continuous improvement, automation, and security mindsets

What you might work on:

As the Technology Business Manager, you will play an important role in the success of the entire technology department by helping to ensure that the department executes on its goals and initiatives while ensuring the team is aligned with the strategic objectives of the firm. You will work with senior level business stakeholders and the technology leadership team to support the strategic direction and help inform design, implementation, and services across each of the technology teams.

• Influence and drive complex conversations with stakeholders and senior leaders
• Act as a strategic advisor, provide insights and thought partnership to the senior management team
• Deliver on department wide efforts that engage broadly with the firm such as the Architecture Council
• Prioritize projects and initiatives for the department
• Provide oversight and guidance to projects of high importance to drive the stakeholder management needed for key strategic cross-functional and transformational projects
• Work with the business to understand current business and customer processes and look for opportunities to leverage technology solutions and increase automation.
• Facilitate communication across the department by developing town hall content and cadence, department-wide team lunches and other means of driving regular positive employee engagement
• Ensure that the department’s key commitments to clients, regulators and other stakeholders are met in a timely and appropriate manner
• Drive technology strategy and implementation for products and service delivery
• Embrace, demonstrate and evangelize the culture of ongoing transformation and pursuit of excellence
• Coach engineering managers through the design and adoption of standard patterns and best practices
• Manage vendor relationships, software license, consultant contracts and monitor associated financial commitments in partnership with the finance procurement and vendor risk teams
• Manage the departments recruitment priority in partnership with HR, coordinate cross department level onboarding and help the leadership team drive department wide employee engagement programing
• Collaborate with the Sr. Management team to evolve technology services to better meet the holistic needs of the business today and into the future, assist in trade-off decisions and team dynamics. The successful candidate will be comfortable collaborating with Sr. Leaders from multiple disciplines to help define a multi-year strategy and providing leadership to multiple teams to accomplish Dimensional’s goals, acting as coach, collaborator, and culture carrier.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field such as Computer Engineering, Computer Science, etc.
• Relevant work experience driving business analysis, strategy or business management in technology departments or organizations
• Demonstrable management, team-building and influencing skills
• Prior experience with project management, business management or operations, and implementing process improvement and change
• Understanding of software design and engineering methods, practices and patterns
• Continuous learner and independent thinker who can work collaboratively with others
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Action orientated, pro-active, positive management approach with the ability to drive teamwork in others
• Creativity in solving problems and generating innovative solutions
• Time management and multitasking skills and ability to make trade-offs, meet deadlines and hold others accountable to doing so
• Prior experience managing multiple vendors, contract and associated financial/budget commitments

Preferred Competencies:

• Industry-recognized certifications such as Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP), Project Management Professional (PMP), CFA etc.
• Experience managing large, complex software implementations and systems integrations in hybrid environments
• Experience transitioning solutions from on-prem to the public cloud
• Experience leveraging AWS and Azure cloud services to solve business problems

Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.
It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, covered veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. This policy applies to all areas of employment including recruitment, hiring, training, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, discipline, termination, and social and recreational programs

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful
• Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies
• Solve problems through strong interpersonal relationship
• Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively
• Strong operator through influence management and thinking at scale
• Demonstrates continuous improvement, automation, and security mindset

As the Technology Business Manager, you will play an important role in the success of the entire technology department by helping to ensure that the department executes on its goals and initiatives while ensuring the team is aligned with the strategic objectives of the firm. You will work with senior level business stakeholders and the technology leadership team to support the strategic direction and help inform design, implementation, and services across each of the technology teams.

• Influence and drive complex conversations with stakeholders and senior leaders
• Act as a strategic advisor, provide insights and thought partnership to the senior management team
• Deliver on department wide efforts that engage broadly with the firm such as the Architecture Council
• Prioritize projects and initiatives for the department
• Provide oversight and guidance to projects of high importance to drive the stakeholder management needed for key strategic cross-functional and transformational projects
• Work with the business to understand current business and customer processes and look for opportunities to leverage technology solutions and increase automation.
• Facilitate communication across the department by developing town hall content and cadence, department-wide team lunches and other means of driving regular positive employee engagement
• Ensure that the department’s key commitments to clients, regulators and other stakeholders are met in a timely and appropriate manner
• Drive technology strategy and implementation for products and service delivery
• Embrace, demonstrate and evangelize the culture of ongoing transformation and pursuit of excellence
• Coach engineering managers through the design and adoption of standard patterns and best practices
• Manage vendor relationships, software license, consultant contracts and monitor associated financial commitments in partnership with the finance procurement and vendor risk teams
• Manage the departments recruitment priority in partnership with HR, coordinate cross department level onboarding and help the leadership team drive department wide employee engagement programing
• Collaborate with the Sr. Management team to evolve technology services to better meet the holistic needs of the business today and into the future, assist in trade-off decisions and team dynamics. The successful candidate will be comfortable collaborating with Sr. Leaders from multiple disciplines to help define a multi-year strategy and providing leadership to multiple teams to accomplish Dimensional’s goals, acting as coach, collaborator, and culture carrier