Director, Engineering; Equity Investment Group
Company: Capital Group
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: October 19, 2024
Job Description:
"I can succeed as the Director, Engineering; Equity Investment
Group."Capital Group's mission is to improve people's lives through
successful investing. We recognize the significant potential that
emerging technologies and data present to delivering on this
mission. The intention and primary accountability of this role is
to unlock that value, utilizing and exploiting technology and data
in our investment process to enhance our ability to deliver
superior long term investment results to our investors and
intermediaries.The Director, Engineering; Equity Investment Group
will provide the vision, leadership, innovation, and expertise to
successfully apply technology and a data-centric approach to
solving for the Equity Investment Group's needs. The goal is to
deliver best-in-class technology to our Equity Investment Group.
This leader will experiment to identify opportunities to drive
value through technology and data in our research and investment
process and will drive the delivery to seize on these
opportunities. They will champion world class data engineering
practices to collect, harvest, govern and utilize investment data
throughout the Equity Engineering organization. The successful
candidate will demonstrate good judgement in balancing internal and
external solution options to provide best value for customers.More
specifically, the Director, Engineering; Equity Investment Group
will be responsible for:
- Leading an organization of 100+ associate engineers and vendor
partners.
- Working with the Investment Group's Chief Information Officer,
Equity Investment Group leadership, the Investment Group Technology
Leadership Team, and partner teams to develop a shared vision and
roadmap for Equity Investment Group technology.
- Providing leadership and setting strategic direction for all
global teams supporting Equity Investment Group and
Investment-related technologies. Creating and delivering a
well-defined strategy for Equity Investment Group Technology.
- Collaborating with the broader Technology organization to
effectively deliver on key priorities for the Equity Investment
Group, and for the enterprise.
- Partnering effectively across the organization and balancing
the needs and priorities of multiple, diverse stakeholders.
Establishing a close partnership with business leaders across the
Investment Group and related operating groups.
- Successfully combining delivery and operational
excellence.
- Fostering high engagement, innovation, and a culture of
continuous learning, developing skills of the future to support a
world-class Equity Investment Group Technology organization.
Articulating a vision that can inspire our technology teams and
business stakeholders alike.
- Bringing the most up to date thinking on new technologies that
can enhance the investor experience.
- Helping to foster a culture of strong engineering, innovation,
sharing, and operational excellence.
- Overseeing the successful delivery of approved experiments and
projects, promoting iterative, agile delivery practices and metric
driven optimization.
- Championing emerging data technologies and capabilities and how
they can be used to drive value within the Equity Investment Group,
and beyond.
- Partnering with Investment Group Technology Product and
Engineering Practice leaders to help with consistent application of
both practices by the Equity Investment Group Technologies teams."I
am the person Capital Group is looking for." You have a proven
track record leading a strategic engineering function for a large,
critical division, influencing a broader technology organization,
helping to set standards and define the technology operating model.
- You have strong technical aptitude and experience of
architecting and engineering a wide variety of solutions, including
globally distributed and highly scalable systems and services, and
the ability to both build in-house and integrate vendor
solutions.
- You have a strong track record of operational excellence.
- You have experience in investment management and capital
markets - business functions, financial instruments, investment
research, portfolio management, trading, investment processing and
systems and technologies that support them.
- You drive business value, based on awareness of the financial
services regulatory environment to help enable compliance and risk
management through the effective use of data.
- You are flexible and have a proven track record of delivering
all types of outcomes - foundational technology, business
enablement and business differentiation.
- You have experience working in an integrated manner with the
business through all phases of the business lifecycle: supporting
business strategy, suggesting technology solutions for specific
challenges, and providing a high level of service.
- You have demonstrated proven program leadership. You have an
ability to shape and drive large-scale, cross-functional,
multi-level programs around people, technology, processes, and
tools - balancing long-term strategy with quick wins.You also have
the following qualitative characteristics:
- Inspirational. You are a senior leader committed to championing
and inspiring others to understand technology and data as strategic
business assets that drive significant growth opportunities across
the enterprise.
- Visionary. You have strategic foresight to identify new
business models, capture opportunities arising from technology and
data advancements, deflect potential problems, and develop
innovative, forward-facing capabilities that provide long-term
competitive advantages.
- Disruptive. You have the confidence to bring up new ideas and
uncomfortable subjects, and to counter "not-invented-here" or "not
worth the effort" attitudes to drive transformative change.
- Collaborative. You have a willingness to serve as a "bridge
builder" and facilitator to traverse divisional siloes, create
synergies between business and technology functions, and align
shared efforts to enable measurable business outcomes.
- Agile. You have the capacity to deliver value to the business
quickly and often by applying a pragmatic approach to developing
governance and capabilities and avoiding elongated initiatives to
build "frameworks" that lose connectivity with the front line of
the business.
- Communication skills. You have the ability to champion the
agenda and educate cross-functional stakeholders about the embedded
value to the enterprise of available data, serving as a change
agent for the organization to overcome cultural resistance often
fueled by a "not-invented-here" mind-set.
- Customer-centric. You have the ability to work back from the
customer's needs and value-orient work prioritization to address
the highest business value opportunities.Southern California Base
Salary Range: $244,854-$416,252In addition to a highly competitive
base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting
requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual
performance bonus, plus Capital's annual profitability bonus plus a
retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible
earnings.You can learn more about our compensation and benefits .*
Temporary positions in Canada and the United States are excluded
from the above mentioned compensation and benefit plans.We are an
equal opportunity employer, which means we comply with all federal,
state and local laws that prohibit discrimination when making all
decisions about employment. As equal opportunity employers, our
policies prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race,
religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including gender
and gender identity), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical
conditions, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition,
genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation,
citizenship status, AIDS/HIV status, political activities or
affiliations, military or veteran status, status as a victim of
domestic violence, assault or stalking or any other characteristic
protected by federal, state or local law.
Keywords: Capital Group, Lancaster , Director, Engineering; Equity Investment Group, Engineering , Los Angeles, California
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