Director Engineering - Investment & Pension domain (m/f/d)

Job description

Raisin is the world’s leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, the FinTech connects consumers with banks in the EU, the UK and the US. This gives consumers better interest rates and banks a diversified form of refinancing . Our vision is to offer savings and investments without barriers and thus open up the global 160 trillion euro market. Raisin currently employs more than 800 people from over 75 countries worldwide. Today, the platform holds over 80 billion euros in assets from more than one million investors which have accrued over 5 billion euros in returns. For further development and expansion of our successful business, Raisin is looking for a highly motivated, driven, and experienced Director of Engineering to lead both strategically and operationally our Investment and Pension (IPP) teams (25+ engineers) This embraces high-quality conceptual and delivery performance of the teams, the health of the IPP engineering organization and system landscape, an efficient and compliant development process, technical and business ownership of the Raisin’s IPP platform, and vendor relationships. At Raisin, we work in a domain driven organization with a binary-star leadership model. In this model, every Director of Engineering has a Product partner (Head of Product/ Director of Product). The Director Engineering (DE) leads both strategically and operationally across multiple cross-functional teams. This embraces the six impact areas (in details below): Delivery quality and speed Domain ownership Team and culture Data strategy Process and compliance Your Responsibilities Delivery quality and speed The DE is: accountable for fulfilling the agreed team commitments to their business-owners in time, scope, and budget responsible for the performance of their teams resolving impediments for their teams nurturing a culture of accountability, pragmatism, and reusability ensuring a strong delivery oriented collaboration between the different engineering teams leading both complex technical and important business projects leading internal software engineering projects and initiatives Domain ownership The DE: drives long-term value creation for their domain is fostering an environment of passion and fun for the business processes in their tribe builds resilient domain expertise in their teams has a deep understanding of the existing system landscape of their teams collaborates closely with their Business Owner and other stakeholders vendor management (evaluating, onboarding, and managing vendors) Tech Strategy The DE: shapes the technical strategy for their teams according to the Raisin's business needs collaborates closely with other Sr. Engineering Leads in shaping and implementing Raisin's Tech Strategy actively initiates and contributes to strategic technical and architectural decisions is always considering the strategic benefits and price of: keeping an existing technical solution introducing a new alternative (e.g framework, tech stack, tooling, process) Team and Culture The DE is: <